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Herbie the Mousebot

Herbie the Mousebot is a 9-volt battery-powered robot that loves to chase flash light beams. If there are several Herbies in the same area, they can be configured to chase each other! These little robots are so quick, you have to run to keep up to them!

Comes in Red, White, Blue or Black please select your colour in shopping cart.

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PumLantern

Meet the PumLantern - a solar-charged, night-time activated light-pulsing lantern!

This kit charges all day from the SCC3733 solar cell, and pumms the four ultra-mega-super-bright LEDs to cast artistic silhouettes against the walls of the lantern.

The LEDs themselves are a random grab of white, blue, red, orange and green.

Other lantern designs are available to view in the more information & downloads section below.

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The Turbot Tumbling Robot

The Turbot is the Velociraptor of the Robot Jurassic Park! Full body tumbling gets this agressive robot over all sorts of terrain on its search for light!

The xenomorphic Turbot is nothing like any other robot you've seen! Designed with no default sense of up or down, left or right, the Turbot scrambles over the landscape, easily tackling obstacles equal in height to itself!

Solarbotics has been researching Turbots for a good, long time, having had the privilege to examine Mark W. Tilden's original Turbots.

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The Sumovore Mini Sumo Kit

The Solarbotics Sumovore Kit is a strong, modular design with over 500 man-hours of development and 21 prototypes behind it. It has more power, speed, and is less expensive than the Junun Mark III, Parallax Mini-Sumo, and Tab SumoBot.

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The Sumovore BS2 Brainboard

Program the Sumovore with a Basic Stamp II add-on! This module lets you interface a BS2, OOPic-C or Basicx-24 to your Sumovore. Yank off the default "discrete brain", plunk this interface board on, add your own controller, and you're ready to load code!

Requires the Sumovore Kit or any product designed for Solarbotics add-on brainboards. 

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The Sumovore Atmel Brainboard

Not enough flexibility with your Sumovore's standard brain? Want to use free development tools? Here's your answer - the ATMega8L-based Brainboard lets you program in practically any language, and download the code via ISP header or a simple parallel-port cable!

Requires the Sumovore Kit or any product designed for Solarbotics add-on brainboards. 

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The Sumovore PIC Brainboard

Using one of the most popular styles of microcontrollers, this brainboard add-on replaces the standard discrete-logic brain with an established, powerful microcontroller!

If you're a microprocessor fanatic at heart and you want to make your Sumovore programmable with a PIC, replace the standard discrete-logic brain with the Microchip 16F877A brainboard add-on, featuring:

Requires the Sumovore Kit or any product designed for Solarbotics add-on brainboards. 

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Brainboard Prototyping PCB

The Brainboard Prototyping board is designed to plug into the expansion ports of the "Version 2" Sumovore Brainboard add-ons.

The K BB-Proto makes use of the expansion port on the new "Version 2" brainboards for the Sumovore and ScoutWalker III. By simply plugging it in, it lets you tap:

• Three servo headers
• Raw 6V and regulated 5V power
• Transistor, RJ11 and IC footprints
• I2C taps  

Requires the Sumovore Kit or any product designed for Solarbotics add-on brainboards. 

Solar Speeder 2 Kit

The SolarSpeeder 2 Kit is a very quick Solaroller that can cover 3 meters (10 feet) in under 40 seconds in direct sunlight.

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PhotoPopper Photovore Kit

Version 5.0! This new version of the Photopoper is still a solar-powered, light-seeking, obstacle-avoiding robot, but now with update electronics & gold trim that make it twice as fast!

The Photopopper photovore utilizes very small high-efficiency motors in combination with elegant circuitry to make a very active solar powered robot capable of covering a meter (3.3 feet) distance in under a minute!

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L293D Secret Motor Driver Kit

The Secret L293D motor driver kit replaces the guts of a standard servo and turns it into tidy gear motor with a built in motor driver!

Want to turn a servo into a more powerful gear motor? The Secret Motor Driver Kit replaces the guts of a standard servo with a logic-signal friendly L293D motor driver chip! The SGS Thompson L293D is configured to provide up to 1.2A and 36V - much higher than what a standard servo electronics are designed for!

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L298 Compact Motor Driver Kit

The L298 is a popular motor driver IC that is usable from 6 to 50V, at up to 4A total output current. By itself, the IC is somewhat diffcult to wire and use, but the Compact L298 Motor Driver makes it much more convenient to use.

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The HexPummer Kit

A solar-powered, night-activated dazzler. Comes with four high-intensity LEDs that "PUMMM" when the lights go out. That is, they turn on STRONG, then slowly fade away.

If you really want to see what's involved in building your own Hex Pummer, take a look at datasheet below

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Magbot SunDancer Kit

'Magbot "SunDancer" BEAM Butterfly. This kit lets you build a mechanical-looking butterfly or insect that makes an ideal executive desk toy.

The Magbot SunDancer Butterfly works on almost the same circuit as the SolarSpeeder Kit, but instead of dumping the power through a motor, it dumps it through a coil. Since the Magbot is balanced on a stand above a high-intensity magnet, it rocks on its own self-induced "electromagnetic wind".

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Scout Walker 3

The ScoutWalker III is an agile two-motor walking BEAM robot platform designed to take advantage of the Sumovore Brainboards!

Being more capable, less expensive, and more expandable than any other two-motor walker design on the market makes this kit ideal for your walking robot experiments!

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Wire Gumby Legs

Called "Gumby Legs" because this 3 foot length of 10-gauge solid copper wire is strong, yet reformable into different shapes.

Gumby Rubber Feet

These rubber booties fit perfectly over the gumby leg wire to combine good grip with great aesthetics.

Sandwich PCB & Components

This kit comes complete with all electrical components necessary to build a fully functional Sandwich robot (minus the batteries and molex headers.) Another item you may want to get is some Sintra to build all your base with.We include a printout from the support website that details the construction process.

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MSE Solar Engine Kit

For true DIY, hack the included cassette mechanism into a solar-powered device using the high performance Miller Solarengine which converts light into impressive bursts of energy! Rapid fire, SCC2433-MSE version.

This Solarengine kit is a re-issue of our original "Flashing LED" solarengine that we sold out of soooo long ago. Updated with a simpler, more effective "Miller Solarengine" design, this easy-to-construct kit takes light energy and turns it into bursts of motor movement. Complete with a hackable cassette mechanism, the instructions detail several projects you can turn your Solarengine into.

Solar Engine Kit

For true DIY, hack the included cassette mechanism into a solar-powered device using the high performance Miller Solarengine which converts light into impressive bursts of energy! High performance, SCC3733-MSE version.

Want a way to get started in electronics, and turn junk into something cool? Use the BEAM design philosophy of making it solar-powered for really long life!The components in this kit are the bare necessities for achieving mechanical movement from the universe's most common energy source - LIGHT. This means no dependancy on batteries, adaptors, wind up springs, or even you for it to continue "living" its merry life.Get it assembled, you can move on to find applications for your solarengine, like a solar dragster (solaroller), a bidirectional robot (SYMET), or anything else you'd like to apply battery-less motion!

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