New Products
NEW PRODUCTS
BRACKETS AND MOUNTS
Micro Metal Gearmotor Bracket
Pololu introduces its
compact bracket for
convenient mounting of
the popular Sanyo-style
10x12 mm miniature
metal gearmotors. The
plastic brackets are custom
made to securely hold the
metal gearmotors in place
while enclosing the otherwise
exposed gears; the mounting tabs capture the nuts
for easy installation.
For further information, please contact:
Pololu
Corporation
6000 S. Eastern Ave. Suite 12-D
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Tel: 877• 7•POLOLU or 702•262•6648
Fax: 702•262•6894
Email: www@pololu.com
Website: www.pololu.com
CONSUMER ROBOTS
Solar-Breeze Intelligent Solar
Robot Pool Skimmer
The Solar-Breeze
Intelligent Solar
Robot Pool Skimmer —
manufactured by
Invention Concepts —
is the first of its kind,
hoping to bring pool
owners on board with
the idea of having
“greener” pools. Solar-Breeze uses a unique solar-power
system that allows it to skim your pool surface all day
while the sun is shining, collecting debris from the pool
surface and preventing it from sinking to the bottom.
Since it keeps dust and debris from sinking to the
bottom of the pool, the time required to run the pool
pump is significantly reduced, thus making pools cleaner
and clearer, so pool pump usage should go down. A
Chemical Dispenser (for commercial solid pool chemical
tablets) is included in the Solar-Breeze design since
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dispensing chlorine or clarifiers evenly and randomly over
the surface makes the chemicals far more efficient than
when spread by other means.
Mr. Clock Radio
Mr. Clock Radio —
manufactured by Gee Wiz
Entertainment — is the world’s first
animated talking robotic clock
radio. Press the snooze button and
he will tell you the current time,
or press the fortune teller
button and ask him a question
about your future. Mr. Clock
Radio has working eyes, a
multi-directional motorized head, as well as a motion
detector. Aside from AM/FM radio, Mr. Clock Radio can
also play music from other devices using the MP3 player
jack and it comes with 50 different wake-up shows.
For further information on either of these two
products, please contact:
RobotShop, Inc.
Website: www.robotshop.ca or
www.robotshop.us
ROBOT KIT
LEGO® Education WeDo
LEGO Education — The LEGO Group’s educational division
— introduces LEGO® Education WeDo™, a new product
that redefines classroom robotics, making it possible for
primary school students 7-11 years of age to build and
program their own solutions. Bridging the physical world
represented by LEGO models, and the virtual world
represented by computers and programming software,
LEGO Education WeDo provides a hands-on, minds-on
learning experience that actively involves young students
in their own learning process and promotes children’s
creative thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
“Building upon our successful 10-year history of
bringing educational robotics to middle, high school, and
university classrooms with the award-winning LEGO MINDSTORMS toolset, we are excited to extend this expertise
to benefit an even younger audience,” said Jens Maibom,
vice president of LEGO Education. “With a progressively
competitive global economy, we know it is imperative to
