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March 23, 2016
futurism Liquid Metal to Make Stretchable Electronics
The elastic tech has huge potential for wearable tech, mobile devices, and even electronic "smart clothing."
material New Material Inspired by Geometric Patterns
Inspired by the intricate geometries and repetitive patterns found in Islamic art, researchers at McGill University developed a material with new properties. (Via ZME Science)
Photo-Feb-06-7-16-10-PM Kinematic Petals Dress debuts at MFA | Nervous System
3D kinematic dress inspired by petals, feathers and scales (Via Creative Applications).
marble Marble Machine
A gigantic marble machine making music using 2000 marbles (Via Wintergatan)
solder A soldering iron out of BIC gas lighter
Interesting idea, maybe not that great in terms of safety though..(Via MrGear)

 

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April 13, 2006
Question: If a rabbit laid an egg, would...

Answer: If it was a chocolately Easter Egg, yes! Yes, quite possibly that was the worst segue of the season, but moving on... Solarbotics will be closed on Friday April 14, 2006 for the Easter long weekend. We will be open on Monday, April 17, 2006 and all will be business as usual.

March 18, 2003
Another Junkbots review

We're pretty proud of our book, "Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels", especially with reviews like this!

March 5, 2018
Painted GraviTrack

We always enjoy seeing our products being modified, revamped and DIY-ed, as well as the results of these transformations. Our customer Vera Kark provided us with some thoughtful feedback on adding mechanical tweaks to improve our Solar GraviTrack build and documentation. She also painted the brown MDF of the machine. She used tempera paint on the wood components still in panelized […]

February 27, 2024
Evil Mad Scientist Inventory... Welcome ...

Earlier in January we had a very interesting discussion with the chief geeks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs. They've been doing similarly-unique DIY as Solarbotics for a good long time, but they had now found themselves in the position of shuttering their operation to take some lead rolls with Bantam Tools. This meant moving from […]

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