16 Jun 2018

New Product Roundup – June 10th to June 16th

Welcome back to another edition of our Saturday New Product Roundup! We have three new products available in the shop this week, including a Media Center version of our always popular Raspberry Pi Starter Kit with a new, lower, price! We also have a new (and strong!) N50 Rare Earth magnet, and a new JST-PH 2 pin male cable.

Before we have a look at each of these new products, just a quick note: With the Canada Day long weekend coming up we will be extending the weekend a little on each side so that we can all enjoy some time off. Our showroom will be closed between June 28th and July 4th, but online orders will continue to ship.

Alright, with that message out of the way – let’s go have a closer look at each of this week’s new products!
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09 Jun 2018

by Chris @ BCR

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New Product Roundup – June 3rd to June 9th

The weekend is here, and with that, another of our New Product Roundup Posts! This week we have a new add-on for the Raspberry Pi, designed and manufactured here at BC Robotics. Our new Raspberry Pi Weather Board simplifies the electronics side of building a Raspberry Pi based Weather Station. We also have a giant propeller, a fan cover for our 40mm fans, and a smaller assortment of gears. Lets jump in and have quick look at each!

02 Jun 2018

by Chris @ BCR

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New Product Roundup – May 27th to June 2nd

Welcome back to another edition of our New Product Roundup – the weekly update we provide summarizing what is new in the shop at BC Robotics. This week we have a few new additions, including a battery powered temperature gauge to keep tabs on that hot summer weather, a new two-wheel drive chassis perfect for building a driving robot, a set of fan gears, and a TO220 heatsink. We also have our MG90S miniature servos on as product of the week – 15% off until Friday at Midnight. Lets go have a quick look at each!

26 May 2018

by Chris @ BCR

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New Product Roundup – May 20th to May 26th

Hi everybody, thanks for stopping by for another edition of our Saturday New Product Roundup! This was a bit of a short week so we have just a few new products to showcase. We have the new SparkFun gator:bit, an alligator clip friendly expansion board for the BBC micro:bit; a new Adafruit Data Logging Featherwing for Adafruit’s line of Feather microcontrollers, and a new 20 pulse per revolution rotary encoder. Lets go have a quick look at each!

25 May 2018

by Tim @ BCR

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Pi Friday – May Edition

A very popular thing to do with a Pi is make some variety of robot; maybe a crawler or wheeled vehicle or a manipulator arm or perhaps something a bit wilder like a humaniod or even an eight armed pogo-stick-using nightmare from the depths of your id.

The common thread between almost all of these projects is a need to make model servos move around to drive those arms and legs in a suitably threatening manner. Today I thought I’d explain one good way of controlling servo positions using commonly available parts.
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