News Archives - February, 2010

Well folks, we don’t have any new products to show off today (I guess we’re all too busy watching the Olympics…), but we DO have a small handful of recently uploadedYouTube videos to show off. Dave has been sifting through some of our old archive tapes, and pulled out a few gems, like this footage of Mark Tilden from 1995:

There are two other new videos, including the second half to the above video as well as a Wowee BIOBug experiment. Check ‘em out over at the Solarbotics YouTube Channel!

Alrighty folks, here you have it. We’ve just doubled the amount of items in our temperature sensor category by adding the following:

• Temperature Probe
• Phidgets Precision Temperature Sensor
• Sensirion Temp/Humidity Sensor
• Thermocouple Kit DS2760
• DS18B20+ Temperature Sensor
• TMP36 Temperature Sensor

And that pretty much rounds out all the temperature sensors we have planned to make available. Stay tuned - there are still plenty of other types of sensors we’ll be adding in the near future.

If you’ve been having a slow, boring weekend this might catch your interest: Dave just uploaded a fistful of  images for Mark Tilden’s Spider. Go to the Walkers/Snakes set to check it out!

Well, it’s more like a workbench 600 feet in the air. In his apartment. In Hong Kong. Nice view…

Dig around the large image to see what cool stuff you can pick out. Gareth @ Make Magazine (where it was first posted last week) already found a “teacup Stirling Engine” at 10 o’clock (near the window sill, 1st picture)! Did you find his HAL9000 duplicate?

Well folks, let’s get started with sad news - We will be closed on Monday, February 15th 2010 for Family Day. Standard schtick - send your emails, submit orders, leave messages, etc. We will resume responding to customers and shipping orders when we reopen the next day (Tuesday, Feb. 16th).

Next up - more sensors! Well, just two, actually:

• Parallax MLX90614 Infrared Module
• Parallax MLX90614 Infrared Thermometer Module

Yeah, it’s not much, but we’ll aim to get lots of new product up over this next week.

To round things out, we have two new videos up on YouTube. The first one features our first successful dry-run of the new pick and place machine:

And the second shows Jerome, our intern and all-around crazy-guy, doing some reorganizing in the lab:

It was probably pointless, but we did it just for fun.

Woo, we’ve had a busy week! To start things off, we have a new category - Temperature Sensors! So far it has the following items:

• Humidity/Temperature Sensor
• DS1620+ Serial Digital Thermometer
• DS18B20+ Temperature Sensor
• Devantech TPA81 8×1 Thermopile
• LilyPad Temperature Sensor

Yeah, it’s a pretty bare category at the moment, but we’ll be adding to it over the next few weeks.

The other piece of news we have for you is that we’ve just completed and posted a new Instructable! This one is for a Solar-Powered Battle Symet - yeah, it’s like the other symet, except it’s turned up to eleven. This guy will go absolutely nuts once it’s discharged its power, spinning like crazy. Get two or more of them together and watch ‘em duke it out! Hey, look, we even made a movie for it! Oh, and here’s a parts bundle - it’s just like the other instructable (the Wannabe Miniball).

And that wraps things up - have a good weekend everyone!