Home Welcome to FingerTech Robotics - Canada's leading manufacturer of RC hobby robotics parts. Click on Products above to start shopping. Check back often for new products and sections! August Updates We will be closed Sept 13 - 26 while we attend (and co-host) the 2017 Canadian National Championship of combat robotics!  Orders placed during that time will begin shipping when we return. For more information on the Nationals, check out http://kilobots.com/events/.  Registration closes Sept 2 if you are interested in competing for thousands of dollars of prizes! June Updates We will be closed June 30 - July 24.  Orders placed during that time will begin shipping when we return. Viper kits are expected to be in stock ~July 24.  Silver Spark motors are expected to be in stock ~July 31. March Updates April is going to be a busy month!  We will be closed April 8 - 28 while we attend RoboGames 2017 in San Francisco. Orders can be placed while we are away and will begin shipping when we return, but may take several days to get through everything! We are sponsoring RoboGames (for the sixth year!) and will again have a booth at the event with parts and kits available for purchase.  Stop by and say hi! Also check out the MyRobot Rumble at Saskatchewan Polytechnic on March 23!  High schools from all over the province compete in a MiniSumo tournament.  FingerTech is sponsoring prizes to the winners for the fifth year in a row. New product added to the store: FingerTech Power LEDs! Most events require clearly visible power indicators to know if your robot is on or off.  These Power LEDs make it easy by plugging right into your receiver! The Superbright LEDs are highly visible and come in five colors: Red, White, Blue, Yellow and Green.  They even include a panel mount clip for easy installation! February Updates It's been outwardly quiet but we are hard at work on new products!  For now, we have added many new screw sizes and hex wrenches to go along with our NutStrip selection. Also, replacement Snap Rings for the Snap Hubs are available. New product: Titanium Blades!  The 6-inch x 3mm thick double-sided Weapon Bar is a perfect fit for the Viper's Horizontal Spinner Add-On, or a bot of your own design! The 2-inch x 3mm Asymmetric Weapon Bar in intended for the Viper's upcoming Vertical Spinner Add-On but has also found its way into 150 fleaweight robots. November Updates Well we are back to work!  A bunch of you guys must have had your fingers hovering over the Checkout button because orders started coming in mere minutes after re-enabling sales! So what did we get done during the shutdown?  Well to start, not nearly as much as I had hoped.  Year-end accounting was supposed to take 4 days, but a key piece of software stopped working so starting fresh with a new system gobbled up the entire second week.  That's the week that was earmarked for new designs. One thing that is in production now is a new add-on for the Viper combat kits: a Vertical Spinner Add-On.  We also drew up some titanium blades for the Spinners that will hopefully be ordered soon. A lot of back-end things were upgraded to make the website run more smoothly too.  It's mostly invisible to customers, but will speed up operations and hopefully leave more time for all the new designs that didn't get finished! October Updates FingerTech's birthday is October 31!  It has been another wonderful year of roboty goodness, thanks to all of our fantastic customers. We are a relatively small operation, and so you may have noticed many products out of stock throughout the year.  Especially Viper kits!  Just when one missing item would come back in stock, something else would go out.  "Too many sales" is not something we can complain about, but it means we have been spending all our time just assembling, packing, and shipping orders with no time dedicated to designing new items and improving existing ones.  And that's what FingerTech is all about! To help us get ahead of things, the store will be shutting down for two weeks: October 21 - November 7.  All product sales will be disabled! We will be completing a year-end inventory (no more "Sorry, that's actually out of stock" emails), updating the website (adding items that we've had sitting on the shelves for months), reorganizing the warehouse to be more efficient, and working on several exciting new products! So remember to get your orders in before October 20!  Thanks for your patience and we will see you when we return! August Updates August 25 backorder update: Parts have arrived!  We are busy unpacking and assembling them, and will start shipping backorders right away! FingerTech will be closed August 30 - Sept 8 while we attend the Robot Battle at DragonCon, and again Sept 15-21 while we attend the Canadian National Championships! Orders placed during those times will begin shipping when we return. August 22 backorder update: Parts are on their way to us now!  They should arrive by the end of the week and we will be packing over the weekend to start shipping on Monday. August 17 backorder update: The manufacturing factory is giving the anodizing factory one more day to get it right.  If they aren't done by tomorrow, they will be trucked to a new anodizing factory that promises they will get it right on first try.  Either way, they expect the parts to be shipped to us by Tuesday next week.  They should arrive here by Monday (Aug 29th) then we start working like crazy to fill all the backorders. Our Beater Bar Assembly and Beater Bar Electronics are now available!  Knock your opponents into next week! August 12: For everyone waiting on backorders of Viper kits, Snap Hubs, Blade Hubs, and Mini NutStrip - they are still not here.  The first delay was because the factory fell two weeks behind schedule, and the recent delays have been caused by the anodizing process (coloring) failing repeatedly.  We just got word that the factory changed out all its liquids and a test batch has come out okay, so they will attempt the entire batch (thousands of FingerTech parts) again very soon.  If all goes well, we should be able to start shipping backorders later next week. Check back here for updates as we receive them! On a happier note, Silver Spark Motors are back in stock! Welcome to our newest distributor from Peru - VAVA Technologies! They carry FingerTech MiniSumo Wheels and a range of Silver Spark gearmotors! August 2: Canada Post has not gone on strike yet and they are still in negotiations.  Packages will be delivered as long as things continue going well.  You can check for updates any time at https://www.canadapost.ca/update