A quick message from Mark W. Tilden...: Just a heads up that following a lecture by yours truly ("World Domination through Robot Toy Marketing"), 200 BIObugs will be released for mass behavioral experiments on Sunday, October 13 at the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, CA. Could be a record for the largest array of cooperating autonomous robots […]
Wednesday Cool Links: The Best of April ...
Solar botics
April 3, 2013
Hmmm, April first has come and gone, and we've missed a chance to pretend we are now switching to selling electric squids powered by rabid honey badgers on brooms. To compensate for that disappointment here's an overview of the best April first stories.
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Underwater Basketweaving This is a new course where students explore the ancient technique of underwater basket weaving. The certificate of accomplishment comes with a 1500-watt professional hair dryer! |
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April Fools’ project teaches coworkers not to touch your stuff Teach those pesky coworkers to never ever touch your stuff again. After flipping the switch a very loud siren will start sounding, which you cannot turn off with the said switch. |
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Sphero - Peacekeeper Edition Sphero Peacekeeper is a new Sphero that reaches 3 feet in diameter, 150pounds and is a really efficient robotic ball capable of performing many tasks! |
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Google Fiber to the Pole Get access to Google Fiber super-high-speed internet by plugging your device into the pole. Find a pole near you, and you can be surrounded by the fellow hackers and gamers and enjoy the community paired with technology. |
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GOG.com introduces the RetroMator 4000 GOG.com is known for making classic games available to play on modern operating systems. If you miss the floppy disk days, RetroMator 4000 is for you. Scale your color depths to as low as 16 or play your favorite game as a text-only adventure. |
Oh, and before we wrap up, just wanted to mention that our new pick'n'place machine is wonderful and working hard at picking and placing all the things, such as LOL Shields, Solarbotics Synapse-to-FTDI Adapter Kits, SB-Freeduinos, which are now back in stock. We thought you might wanna know!
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Tom Gray's "SpringTail"
Just tripped over this link on the Yahoogroups BEAM mailing list. Nice looking walker - built using our BEP boards too!
Christmas/New Years Holiday Hours
Happy holidays! This is a quick note to announce our holiday schedule, which is going to be as follows: Friday, December 23 - Offices open til 2pm Saturday, December 24 - Tuesday, December 27 -- Closed Wednesday, December 28 - Thursday, December 29 - Open Friday, December 30 -- Offices open til 4pm Saturday, […]
Egg-cellent Art
ArtBots 2008 was held on September 19-21 in the Science Gallery at the Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The show featured 15 works of art by 16 artists from 9 countries. Solarbotics Ltd was proud to provide several demo robots to the Science Gallery to use during ArtBots for their “hands-on” robot display. One of […]
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