Christmas/New Years Holiday Hours

Space is Limited! RSVP as soon as possible! -- Solarbotics will be hosting another workshop to get you prepared for this year's annual Western Canadian Robot Games. The main attraction will be our almost-in-production ScoutWalker III Robot. The ScoutWalker III is an agile two-motor walking BEAM robot platform designed to take advantage of microprocessor-based brainboards, […]

Solarbotics will be at the Calgary City Teachers' Convention Thursday & Friday, February 16 and 17, 2017. We will demo a variety of educational kits for teachers to use in classrooms, including introductory kits to develop skills in programming, mechanical construction, and soldering. Come put a face to the name at booth 727 at Calgary […]

Happy October everyone! The leaves are falling and there's that crisp scent of winter lurking in the air. Ah, it sure is beautiful! And you know what else is beautiful? Diodes and trimpots, of course. Check out these gorgeous new components: 3.4V Zener Diode 5.1V Zener Diode 1k Single-Turn Trimpot w/ Knob 10k Single-Turn Trimpot […]

Don't even bother reading this introduction - skip on ahead and go to the first link in the list. It'll blow your mind. Medusa -Proximity Aware Multi-Touch Tabletop This interactive surface (which is actually a version of Microsoft Surface) uses a mind-boggling 138 proximity sensors to detect people around and using the table. As far […]