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April Updates
RoboGames 2012 is fast approaching! We hope you've got your robots ready (or are just working out the last bugs now!)
We will be away from April 18-24 but order shipping will resume on the 25th. If you see us there be sure to say hi!
March Updates
March 6: All fixed!
March 5: We are having website issues at the moment. Please check back later.
February Updates
Our new sizes and colors of Garolite have arrived! Now you can choose from:
Thicknesses of 1/16", 3/32" and 1/8",
Sizes of 8x10" and 16x10", and
Colors of Black, Blue, Red, Green, Orange and Camouflage!
Our Boxing Week sale is online! From Dec 26-31, our Clearance Section will have super deals in hopes of getting back some shelf and drawer space. We want it all gone!
Our Viper R/C Starter Robot Kits are also on sale for $115! That's $75 off!
Tell your friends, tell your followers, tell your schools, tell your blog - we're going to see how many Vipers we can sell in a week!
This will surely put the Vipers into backorder, so be aware that it could be a couple weeks before we catch up. For this price we hope you'll understand a bit of a wait!
The festive season of possible shipping delays is upon us! We will still be packing and sending orders as fast as usual, but once they get into the delivery system there might be delays. Make sure you order your gifts ahead of time!
Thanks to an unexpected barrage of orders, many of our items have run out of stock! Everything is in production at once but might not be in until after the holidays. If you are interested in something that is out of stock, please send us an email and we will give you an estimated delivery or point you to a distributor who may have your item.
New product! The Cobra Mini-Sumo Chassis Kit is designed to be a competitive entry into the masters class of mini-sumo. We've been sending our prototype chassis all over North America and it has proven itself against some of the toughest bots out there! It has the ability to beat those big-wheeled servo bots every single time, and hold its own against the top-ranked robots.
November Updates
By popular request we have added four new larger sizes of S3M timing belt to our line-up. Now available are:
130T (390mm)
132T (396mm)
134T (402mm)
136T (408mm)
The Pulley & Belt Calculator has been updated to include the new timing belt lengths.
Examples have also been added to help explain a little better how to use the calculator.
As we near completion on the Cobra Minisumo Kit, it's time to start thinking about the next new product! We've got some ideas, and have had lots of suggestions from other people - so we put it to you, our customers, to decide what to make next! We have created a Facebook Questionnaire with these options so far:
• 3lb robot sized drive esc (a big brother to tinyESC)
• 1-3lb sized combat robot power switch (high current, very robust)
• 3lb robot sized drive motors (22mm/28mm diameter gearbox)
• Larger Mecanum Wheels (~4" wheels compared to our current 2" wheels)
• 2-Channel tinyESC (with onboard mixing)
• A Mecanum motor controller (with built-in mixing and gyroscope)
• Small dual channel controller
• 1-3lb Combat robot weapon discs
• Arduino boards
• 1-3lb robot sized brushless motors / escs
If you are not on Facebook you can email your choice to us. Feel free to add your own ideas to the poll, and please comment on our wall with your thoughts or questions!
We have added another battery size to our Rhino lineup. For those wanting something between 460mAh and 750mAh, we now have the 610mAh packs in 2S (7.4v) and 3S (11.1V).
October Updates
This month is something special: We have served our one-thousandth customer!
As we mentioned on our Facebook and Twitter pages, the 1000th customer was promised a special treat. The prize goes to David McKeown from Dublin, Ireland. As a reward for being a loyal customer, his entire $260.16 order was free! Can you say Luck of the Irish? Here is what David had to say:
"Thanks to FingerTech Robotics for their generosity and this amazing surprise. It's great to see a company giving back to their customers in this way, especially with hobby robotics being so community based. I'm sure it won't be long before their next 1000th order, they sell quality stuff. This is going to be one mean Mini Sumo!"
From an email we learned that David plans to use his new Silver Spark motors/mounts, Cobra minisumo wheels and lipoly batteries in a new minisumo robot for the RoboChallenge Competition in Vienna (March 2012). Best of luck to him!
We enjoy celebrating milestones and plan to do more of it, so if you haven't signed up for our Facebook and Twitter feeds now might be a good time!
September Updates
We have received the correct thickness Motor Mounts. No worries of flexing with these beefy mounts!
Of course, we still have the thinner Motor Mounts at a discounted price if you feel so inclined.
We are happy to introduce our Cobra MiniSumo Wheels! After months of design and testing (and winning plenty of pushing matches), they are ready for your robots.
We do the tire molding in-house and have made a big batch for initial release, but apologies in advance if we run out and your order takes a day or two longer!
We just got a big shipment of lipoly batteries in. All sizes of Rhino lipos are back in stock!
Greetings to spectators of this weekend's Kilobots at Saskatoon's WakeRide! Pictures and videos will be uploaded soon to www.kilobots.com.
If you are interested in a robot kit or would like to participate in a workshop, please email Kurtis with your preference. Details of the workshop will be solidified as we get more interest.
We now carry the versatile yet inexpensive HKC6 battery charger. It will do Li-ion, LiPo, LiFe, NiMH, NiCad and Lead Acid at up to 5A charge and 1A discharge.
We have a new distributor! DIYbin.com now carries FingerTech Viper kits, Spark motors and tinyESCs. They are also a sister company of the robot site RUG Community who reviewed the Viper kit (and loved it)!
June Updates
Our custom Motor Mounts have arrived! Unfortunately (well, Fortunately for you!) they were made thinner than we asked. So these ones are being sold at a discount. Only $3.33 for a pair!
May Updates
Finally released; the Silver Spark gearmotor series! These motors have bigger gear teeth and can stand even more abuse than the Gold Sparks!
The Western Canada Robot Games were held this past weekend (May 14) in Calgary, Alberta. We sent the Cobra kit to compete in the masters minisumo event and it took 2nd place!
We have a new distributor! RobotShop now carries FingerTech products. Spark motors, tinyESCs, Mecanum Wheels, Viper kits and more!
April Updates
RoboGames was once again a huge success! Congratulations to all the teams who made the journey wether they won or lost. Just being part of the event is an achievement!
Follow our facebook page to see the videos of our minisumo kit prototype, the "Cobra" in action! The polyurethane wheels proved themselves by outpushing the first place team's robot. We are excited and can't wait to test it against more competition!
We've been busy lately; packing and shipping orders to all you RoboGames competitors. We can't wait to see all the bots you've created! Next week we will be making the journey to San Fransisco and thus will be out of the office Apr 12th until Apr 19th. Say hello if you see us there!
We have a new distributor! SparkFun now carries FingerTech's Mecanum Wheels. They also made this fun video to show off the wheels!
February Updates
Check out this video from DAGU of their new "Rover 5" robot platform using our Mecanum Wheels to follow an object in front of it. The Rover 5 is currently available at SparkFun!
January Updates
If you are wondering what new projects we are working on this year, "like" our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter! Both streams are unique (no auto-posting bots here!)
As a teaser, there are sumo wheel prototypes being molded, and Spark motor mounts in the design phase.
Do you subscribe to Servo Magazine? If not you may have missed the December issue with a detailed user's review of our upgraded tinyESC v2.
"One of the most easy to use, compact, and bulletproof [speed controllers] on the market today."
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