Beam News Archive December 98
December 31
Happy New Years Eve everyone!!!
Injectorall has some 1/100" double
sided boards and etching equipment for your next PCB.
December 30
Sorry about the lack of updates...I've been very busy.
Don Papp's BEAM site has had
a major update. Very cool AVI's on Scissorbot.
Rich Piotter posted a page on his
Floor Monkey.
Balsa Products has $8.00 USD servos for sale.
December 25
Happy Holidays Everyone!!!
Dennison has posted a couple pics of his Horizontal scanning Bi-core head.
bicorea.jpg
bicoreb.jpg
December 23
Richard Weait is organizing a build-fest for BEAMers in Southern Ontario.
Contact him for more details.
Nice page on Dave's
Solar-Speeder. No link to Solarbotics but
he may have bought it from somewhere else.
Steve's Spy is a neat looking
head.
Here's another
BEAM webpage worth taking a look at. The webmaster is Andrea.
December 21
Ian is selling some of his excess BEAM stuff. Namiki 7CL pager motors for $2.25 or $2.75 w/o
weight and Panasonic Sunceram 24x33 solar cells for $5.00 each. Contact him at
Synet@Psynet.net.
Sorry about the delay in judging for the MicroVore contest. It's a busy time of year for Mark
and Dave.
December 17
Dennison has followed Ian's lead and built his own pager motor gearbox.
gearboxa.jpg
gearboxb.jpg
Nice work guys!!!
December 17
Ian built a really nice pager motor gearbox
. I wonder if he'd build a couple for me?...
December 16
Sean took the time to create a Behavioural Simulation of photovores flocking to light.
Here's a page
on Steve's first walker.
December 15
Little bit of a change for the 640x480 people out there. Hopefully you'll get a new monitor
for Christmas!
December 14
Check out the beginnings of Richard's solar powered walker named
Blue.
December 13
Ian has updated his BEAM Central with
new Stryder Jr. and Robofly pics.
December 12
RealVideo clips added of Walker ver5.3 turning.
Links page has been updated.
December 11
Ben Hitchcock's page on his ultra-cheap two-motor
walker.
Walker Ver5.3 AVI movie is now online.
walk5.avi
Here's two pics of Dennison's new three-motor walker variations.
threea.gif
threeb.gif
Here's a very cool site on a robotic doggie with a auditory and visual tracking head. Thanks to Bram
for this one.
December 10
Another new BEAM page for you...although
Sean's Page doesn't have much (any) content yet, it looks very nice. =)
December 9
Take a look at QwikNet
for some artificial neural-net software.
December 8
BEAM Online has a new look. Ian
also posted a couple new bots, Stryder Jr. and Bug 1.3.
You can see the first two pages of Dennison's new (old)
page.
December 7
Ian's journal is now online. Visit
BEAM Online to see everything that happened at the 7th International BEAM Games.
Evaristo Westplate has posted instructions on how to build his beautiful solar fly called
Gizmo.
December 6
5 motor walker schematic posted.
...still judging...
December 3
Brian has created a Map of BEAM Resources on the Web.
December 2
The MicroVore contest is now closed! Judging will be as quick as possible. Good luck to everyone
that entered!
Here's two more entries that just made it...
Brian Hendrickson's Mite.
Midas
made by David Connolly. David got his in at 11:59 exactly...just in the nick of time!
December 1
Here's some more MicroVore's that came in just under the wire.
Ivar Thorson's Unnamed Photovore
.
The only Suneater type photovore of the bunch...John Leo Zimmer's
PushmePullyou.
Judging will take a couple days so...hold yer horses!
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