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Fancy a spot of robotic Sumo wrestling? The Zumo is a fully assembled tracked robot, just drop on an Arduino, pop in the batteries and you can start moving! It's sized for the mini-Sumo class of Robot-sumo - quite literally Robot Sumo Wrestling! With a built in accelerometer, magnetometer, reflectance array, two 75:1 gearmotors and dual motor driver it's all the robot you need.Want the power of the ARM mbed and Arduino Shields? Well, the Arch Pro has got it! It's the powerful LPC1768 on an Arduino footprint, with an Ethernet jack and USB OTG. With the wealth of mbed libraries and Arduino compatible hardware that's a lot of capability in one board!There are some things that are always in your toolbox because they're just that useful. With this adjustable Step-Up Voltage regulator you can make your low voltage power sources very useful, being able to get over 2A at 5V and over 1A at 9V from a single cell LiPo battery! Since everything is on one board, with screw terminals included, it's also dead easy to use.And an old friend has returned with a new lease of life! The Teensy has been upgraded to 3.1 and it's a hell of an upgrade. 50% faster, twice the flash memory, four times the RAM, 2 extra PWM pins and the digital I/O pins are now 5V tolerant!