New products: RoboClaw 2x5A, 2x15A, and 2x30A motor controllers (V5)

From www.pololu.com 6 years ago in Stores

We’re now selling the latest V5 versions of the RoboClaw 2x5A, 2x15A, and 2x30A dual motor controllers from Ion Motion Control. Like the previous V4 RoboClaws, they can drive a pair of brushed DC motors at voltages from 6 V to 34 V, but the 2x5A now has a USB serial interface...

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20th Anniversay Sale

From www.pololu.com 6 days ago in Stores

We are having a sale to celebrate our 20th anniversary! Get 20% off 20 big categories of products! The sale runs until the end of April. Visit the sale page for details!

20 years since we shipped the first Pololu product

From www.pololu.com 1 week ago in Stores

Today marks 20 years since we first shipped a Pololu product, on April 9, 2001! Join me for some reminiscing on where we were twenty years ago and for an update on how we are doing now, more than a...

February 2021 coronavirus operations update

From www.pololu.com 2 months ago in Stores

We are approaching a year since governments in the US started shutting down businesses in response to the pandemic, and by this time last year, the then-novel coronavirus was already causing what we naively considered to be severe disruption to...

New Pololu distance sensors with digital and pulse width outputs

From www.pololu.com 2 months ago in Stores

In many applications ranging from robotics to industrial automation, it is useful to quickly detect the presence of objects within a certain distance. Our carrier boards for the Sharp/Socle GP2Y0D8x digital distance sensors have been popular in this role, but...

Video: How to Assemble the 3pi+

From www.pololu.com 2 months ago in Stores

We are excited to release our first video related to our new 3pi+ robot! This assembly video walks you through the steps found in the assembly section of the 3pi+ 32U4 User’s Guide. While our user’s guides aim to be...

3pi+ featured in community member’s intro to robotics video series

From www.pololu.com 3 months ago in Stores

Customer and forum user Brian Gormanly (known as bg305 on our forum) just released the first video in his new Arduino Lab Series: Introduction to Robotics: Building an Autonomous Mobile Robot. Brian writes, “Throughout this series we will be introducing...

Roll your own continuous Arduino testing with our new arduino-ci

From www.pololu.com 3 months ago in Stores

As I wrote a few years ago, we used to use Travis CI and PlatformIO to confirm our Arduino libraries and examples compile after every code change. This helps us maintain confidence in the quality of our code and makes...

Our Year End Sale is going on now!

From www.pololu.com 4 months ago in Stores

We have one last sale for you before 2020 comes to an end! Get discounts on products we released in 2020, on all active Pololu-brand items, and on some select products that we’d like to reduce our inventory of. The...

New Products: CP2102N serial adapter and another USB Type-C breakout. Should we do more with USB-C?

From www.pololu.com 4 months ago in Stores

Seven years ago, we released a CP2104 USB-to-Serial Adapter Carrier, our first product with a USB Micro-B connector (we had only used Mini-B up to that point). A few months later I wrote a blog post discussing our decision to...

Our Christmas Sale is going on now!

From www.pololu.com 4 months ago in Stores

If you missed our Black Friday sale or realize you didn’t quite get everything you wanted, don’t fret: now through December 24, we have all active Pololu-brand and PCX products on sale for 12% off, and we are offering 15% off...