Solarbotics Blog Posts & News
New Calgary Robot Club
Dave Hrynkiw
October 16, 2001
This Thursday (October 18) is the inaugural meeting of the Western Canadian Robot Society, Room MD213 7PM at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). We're hoping to revive the interest in the local robot scene, as Calgary already has one of the biggest robot games in the world, and it's a killer center of […]
Push Pogo Pins Update
Dave Hrynkiw
October 4, 2001
We've received word that we will be receiving new stock on all our push pogo pins, but they will not be available for order until October 8 or 9th. The order link will be restored when the inventory arrives.
Solarbotics.net!
Dave Hrynkiw
September 23, 2001
Solarbotics Ltd. is pleased to announce the re-unveiling of Solarbotics.net. Solarbotics.net is a BEAM Community Server that we, at Solarbotics are proud to sponsor. Our involvement with Solarbotics.net is as a hardware sponsor - we are providing the server hardware and the bandwidth for this project. It is being managed at arm's-length by Eric Seale, […]
Shipping Update
Dave Hrynkiw
September 17, 2001
We are being informed that our air/courier shipments are almost back to normal. Although delivery times are still not guarranteed, most shipments should arrive on time.
Our sympathy...
Dave Hrynkiw
September 11, 2001
Due to the horrific events happening in the USA, Solarbotics cannot guarantee delivery of Priority or Airmail orders for the immediate future. Our sincerest sympathy goes out to the victims of this brutal and cowardly attack. May time relieve you of your sorrow, and the attackers face their justice.
Interesting stuff at the Exploratorium
Dave Hrynkiw
September 5, 2001
Not exactly relevant to BEAM, but an interesting distraction: Here's some interesting media from the San Francisco Exploratorium. Notable media to watch is their "Iron Science Teacher" competition (familiar with "The Iron Chef? Same idea...), and their hosting of Robot Sumo Wrestling.
BIOBugs Update
Dave Hrynkiw
September 4, 2001
News from Mr. Tilden: The official unveiling of Hasbro/Wowwee BIOBugs will be September 14, with a huge unleasing of 100 of these critters into the desert of White Sands, New Mexico. Additionally, Mark himself is slated to be on the Rosie O'Donnell Show sometimes on the week of September 17. This will coincide with the […]
Closed for the Holiday!
Dave Hrynkiw
August 31, 2001
As the rest of North America will be closed Monday September 3rd, so will we. Business as usual on Tuesday!
MIT's Rod Brooks papers
Dave Hrynkiw
August 27, 2001
Just a quick addition for now - there was a link submitted from the BEAM mailing list regarding Rod Brooks' papers at MIT. Some very worthwhile reading for those long, summer afternoons in the shade... Read More...
Spyder Detail Pictures
Dave Hrynkiw
August 17, 2001
One of the most popular BEAM Walkers ever built was Mark Tilden's VBug 1.1 - Spyder. We've recently had the opportunity to shoot a series of high-resolution detail pictures of this robot, which we're now making available to you!
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