The Western Canadian Robot Games are fast approaching, so we're going to help spur on building by reducing the prices of our batteries by half! Get building - you only have less than 2 months to finish!
Wednesday Cool Links - Twitter for the B...
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December 5, 2012
So, there we were: Sitting at our desks, at our computers. And before we knew it, BAM! INTERNET! And when you're unexpectedly faced with this kind of a freak-circumstance, there's only one thing you can do: find something worth sharing. So here we go, our latest round of absolutely life-shattering links. You'll never be the same. We know we won't be.
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Hungry Birds on Twitter Birds have the right to tweet! While eating. By Attaching bacon fat squares to a keyboard, birds can create tweets on the @hungry_birds Twitter account. |
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Pinokio Pixar's Luxo-Lamp as a hardware media project by Adam Ben-Dror. Love it, but the servo gears definitely need some sound-deadening grease. |
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Robot Caterpillar Tank Treads, Johnny Five Style - 3D Print A complete instructable for 3d printing a a toy version of the robot from Short Circuit, Johnny Five, including DWG and STL format files for the base and treads. |
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The Present: An Annual Clock that Tells Time in Seasons Yet another Kickstarter project that made it successful and is now available to the public - a clock that marks not minutes and hours, but the change of seasons with its one hand. We think it's probably pretty tough to forget what the season currently is, but... This is still pretty neat. |
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Simplifying Fabrication of Soft Robots Peristaltic pumps pushing air or liquid using the bulb of a blood pressure cuff... We're not sure what all that means, but it certainly doesn't sound like a robot? Yet it is how the soft robot might work, made even easier by using 3D printed molds, explained in more detail here. |
You wouldn't believe it. Even this morning I was on the way into the office, sitting on the bus. I took out my phone and before I knew it, BAM! INTERNET! All up in my face. You never see it coming...
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Solar Eclipse at SB
Today August 21, 2017, we were treated to about 80% solar eclipse. In spite of the smoke, the weather cooperated so we couldn't miss this event. Pinhole projector boxes were made out of cereal and shipping boxes: Fancy ones were mounted onto a tripod, and a phone camera recording a time lapse video was taped […]
Mmmmmm...Turkey....(insert drool here).
Monday October 10th is Canadian Thanksgiving and Solarbotics will be closed so all our employees can spend the day with their families. We will be open on Tuesday October 11th at 9:00am MST and all will be business as usual again. Happy Thanksgiving folks!
Solarbotics goes to San Francisco!
Solarbotics recently sent a representative to the Robot Society of America's Robot Expo in San Francisco. Wanna see some pics? Check them out here at http://www.solarbotics.net/gallery/SanFranciscoRSA.
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