We are always on the search of cool technology, so when we came across Bare Conductive, we thought: pizza! what a great find! Bare Conductive is a design and technology company from the UK that makes sensing tools for engineers, designers, and makers. They produce a line of electrically conductive paint, capacitive sensor hardware and a […]
SparkFun hates robots.
Dave Hrynkiw
November 17, 2009
We love SparkFun. Great group of people. Excellent products. It's just that they're... well... twisted and cruel.
You see their RoboJoust event? We didn't take them serious when they said it was to be performed 4' off a concrete floor. But here's the proof. They're actually building the table that high off the ground.
Next thing you know, they'll be wanting a minimum construction material content of 60% lego blocks. And "flame-retardant construction materials"...
(Looks like fun. Wish we could come play too!)
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Mmmmmm...Turkey....(insert drool here).
Monday October 10th is Canadian Thanksgiving and Solarbotics will be closed so all our employees can spend the day with their families. We will be open on Tuesday October 11th at 9:00am MST and all will be business as usual again. Happy Thanksgiving folks!
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