Wednesday Links: Ballet, Draw-bots and Katanas

Yet another selection of hand-picked links from all over the interwebs: Visualizing Ballet .. using Lilypad Arduino. Looks beautiful, produces drawing-like results and helps dancers to trace their movements for necessary feedback. (Via Arduino blog) Tiny CNC-bot Beautiful little Piccolo, … Read more…

Friday New Products: Microphone Accessories, Connectors

New product for your attention: Electret Microphone Breakout $7.95 Audio sensors & mics have to be amplified just right for best response. Here’s a tidy unit engineered by Sparkfun to make adding an electret mic to your project easy. MEMS … Read more…

Closed Tuesday, November 11th (Remembrance Day)

Just a quick note to remind everyone that we are closed on Remembrance Day – Tuesday November 11 and will resume responding to phone calls and emails tomorrow.

Project Monday: The Story of SharkBot

Not every product we design is destined to make it to the consumer. Sometimes a great idea gets taken to completion before we realize that one factor or another dooms it to an existence in our failed project bin. One … Read more…

Friday New Product: eSun Filament, Push Buttons

Today we have a rainbow of colorful stuff, which apparently doesn’t look anything like it at the moment, but believe me, it is. eSun 1.75mm PLA filament – 1kg Spool $30.00 1.75mm PLA filament for 3D printing. PLA is an … Read more…

Thursday November 06 2014

On the above mentioned day (tomorrow) due to the plague/cholera/SARS (depending on the employee) we are taking a break from processing and shipping orders here at Solarbotics; the overnight orders will be shipped as usual. We apologize for the inconvenience … Read more…