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Boxing Week Sales!!
Posted on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003 at 5:25 pm by Solarbotics Team
Categories: News.  

Never mind that 10 block line-up at your local home electronics store. Solarbotics is where it’s at this holiday season for great quality, inexpensive robots and parts. Feast your eyes on the packages of motors, wheels, kits and supplies which are all over 20% off the regular two-for pricing!!



  • Do you want motors and LOTS of them??
  • Do you want wheels for your gear motors?
  • Do you want the BEST Mini-Sumo on the market?
  • Do you want a great head-start on your next robotic platform?



    Sales are on until the first full week of January, so you have lots of time to play with all your Christmas presents (Gotta get Dave to stop playing with his mini-RC tanks…) and eating all that caramel popcorn. THEN, come back and get stocked up for the long winter or robot-building ahead of you.

    • Christmas/New Years Holiday Hours
    Posted on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003 at 4:43 pm by Solarbotics Team
    Categories: News.  

    Well, it’s that time of year for the Solarbotics staff to go spend time with friends and family. With that said, we hope that you all have a safe and happy holiday season, whatever your plans may be.



  • Wednesday, December 24 - Sunday, December 28 — Closed
  • Monday, December 29 - Wednesday, December 31 — Open
  • Thursday, January 1, 2004 — Closed
  • Friday, January 2, 2004 — Open
  • Monday, January 5, 2004 — Back to the grind… 9:00am - 6:00pm

    • Still time to get stuff for Christmas…
    Posted on Thursday, December 18th, 2003 at 12:46 pm by Dave Hrynkiw
    Categories: News.  

    There’s still a bit of time left if you’re dropping hints to your loved ones about what you want for Christmas!

    • US Express — December 22 (last chance!)
    • Canada Express — December 23

    Robot Building for Beginners back in stock!
    Posted on Thursday, December 18th, 2003 at 12:43 pm by Dave Hrynkiw
    Categories: News.  

    Just in time for Christmas! This is truly one of the better beginner books about robots. It’s a great gift idea…

    Read More…

    You guys are good…
    Posted on Friday, December 12th, 2003 at 10:27 pm by Dave Hrynkiw
    Categories: News.  

    No matter that we’ve been beating this website up for the better part of 6 months, you guys still find some bizarre bugs. Thanks to all that have been sending in the bug reports. We’ll get the fly-swatter out Monday to squish them.

    Thanks again for all your (mostly very positive) feedback!

    Dave Hrynkiw, President

    You’ve still got time!
    Posted on Thursday, December 11th, 2003 at 7:23 pm by Solarbotics Team
    Categories: News.  

    There is still time for residents of the US and Canada to get your order before the holidays if you select the Air Mail or Express shipping methods.


    Latest order dates:


    • US Airmail — December 15
    • Canada Airmail — December 18
    • Int’l Express — December 19
    • US Express — December 22
    • Canada Express — December 23

    One of the many neat little things that this new web site was able do for us is to completely revamp our entire shipping options setup.


    We are proud to be able to drop the prices on several Canadian and International shipping methods, as well as even introduce some new options.



    I hope you enjoy using the new web site, and look forward to any feedback you may have.



    See more on the shipping details page.

    New Solarbotics Website
    Posted on Thursday, December 11th, 2003 at 3:04 pm by Dave Hrynkiw
    Categories: News.  

    Welcome to the new Solarbotics Website! You’ll notice some substantial upgrades. We’re on our own server, which means very quick and speedy surfing. The website is also totally re-written from scratch. This is a double-edge sword, as this means we’re still working on re-porting over older documents, like the BEP applications.

    Look! A search button! And check out the “Resources” tab - it summarizes all the documents, videos, pdfs, etc from the whole website. Give us a few days to finish repopulating them - we’ve got some pretty spanky additions to make! Oh, if you’re looking for the old website in case if you’re in need of the old BEP applications and the like, it’s still available at http://oldsite.solarbotics.com

    Feedback welcome!

    Kyle on Discovery TV
    Posted on Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 at 11:00 am by Dave Hrynkiw
    Categories: News.  

    Kyle Simmons has been very busy lately, particularly being on TV! If you’re getting the Canadian Discovery Channel, check him out tonight on ‘Daily Planet’ (22 minutes into the program). Hmmm…. nice kits you’re featuring there!

    For those of you who missed it, EXN.CA has the clip online!

    Read More…

    Sumovore Modifications
    Posted on Friday, December 5th, 2003 at 11:00 am by Dave Hrynkiw
    Categories: News.  

    We’re starting to get feedback on Sumovore modifications by our customers. Like, turning the Sumovore into a Room-rover. Or 18V motor operation modifications. Or ‘Kaoken’ double-voltage adrenaline charges when pushing an opponent. All sorts of stuff!

    We’ll start featuring these modifications shortly, but until then, you may want to take a look at our own Grant McKee’s personal page on the Sintra-stiffener hack he’s implemented. We’re looking at making this a permanent addition to the Sumovore kit, but until then, visit his site for details!

    Catalog glitches…
    Posted on Friday, December 5th, 2003 at 10:59 am by Dave Hrynkiw
    Categories: News.  

    Grrr… Time to start handing out the 1000 lashes with a wet noodle. There’s a few pricing errors in the new catalog 6:

    • The RM2 motor is not 2 for $10.75/ea CDN - it’s 1 for $3.40 or 2 for $2.85/ea CDN
    • The SC2422 solar cell is not 2 for 2.55/ea USD - it’s 2 for $3.25/ea USD
    • The GM8 and GM9 gear motors are not $5.50/ea - they’re $10.55/ea CDN

    Sorry about the confusion, folks. I wish we could afford to honour the under-pricing and correct just the over-pricing, but we have a staff to feed and free community servers (www.solarbotics.net) to support!

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