Vancouver BEAM Workshop

Well it looks like that time of year when snow's in the air and we are out of the office for those precious holiday-tastic days.  Over the next two weeks(ish) Solarbotics/HVWTech will be closed on the following dates: December 24th (Wednesday) December 25th (Thursday) December 26th (Friday) January 1st (Thursday) January 2nd (Friday) During this […]

Yours truly is about to teach a mixed media class and wanted to try making some stamps to enhance my (and my students') collaging experience. Stamps are used to create background patterns and give interest to surface design in 2d mixed media techniques. There is a variety of stamps available both online and in craft […]

Usually I'd take the opportunity of the weekly newspost to show you something that would shake the very foundations of your soul. Y'know, by showing you the latest and greatest toys or by announcing sales and/or specials.  But instead, I will show you what we've been toiling away on over the past week. You know […]

As Panasonic is no longer manufacturing their line of Sunceram solar cells, we've been on the hunt for suitable replacements. Here's our first find - the SCC3733! It's a polycrystaline cell in an epoxy casing, so it's a bit heavier, but much, much less prone to breaking or burning off of the solder-pads. It's also […]