Beam News Archive January 99
January 30
Ian's Bi-core tutorial has been redone in 3D. It's much easier to follow now. Good work Ian!
Check it out at BEAM On-line.
The [INFO] series is back on-line, along with Ben's bot's.
Here's the new address.
Jim has added a page on CarBot1 to his BEAM Me Up site.
Here's a new page just added to the BEAM webring.
Cool Man's Robot.
January 28
Ian has finished a part of a rather large update. Check out the Bi-core free-form tutorial at
BEAM On-line.
Also take a sneak peek at Ian's BEAM FAQ.
January 28
The SunBEAM page has been updated
with a step by step photo guide to building a symet.
January 27
Jim has published his BEAM page. His bots put many to shame in the aesthetics category. Nice work!
Finally =) ! Take a peek at Dennison's Alternative BEAM Page.
January 25
Andrew Miller's walker site lives on!!! It can now be found on
Bram's site.
Thanks for keeping this one alive Bram.
Rich has updated the
Rich Files with new info on "Walker 3M" and "MECI IV M". The later of the two can right itself
after falling over, very cool.
For you microcontroller types...here's a site with a scratch built hexapod.
Adam's Hexapod Robot.
I took the time to load a bunch of new e-mails into the Influential E-mails
section.
January 24
Here's a new web page.
January 21
My book store is now on-line!!! You can browse through the selections
and if you decide to buy something, I'll get a little cash for commission but you still pay the
exact same price you would if buying directly from Amazon.com. Sorry for going commercial on you
guys but hey...we all gotta make a buck somehow! Enjoy.
Dave found has stock of another great BEAM product. Here's a clip of his e-mail...
You want small? We got small. Haven't posted them to the website YET, but we just got in a one-time
shipment of tiny 1/8" square encapsulated solarcells (actually photodiodes). Put out about 0.45V
each, at 1.4 mA in noon-day winter sunlight (open circuit voltage / short circuit current).
$0.50/ea, or 10/$4. They are the same ones as you see on the original "BEAMant" images on the
website. You could use 80 of them and be legal for solarroller racing, and generate 36V
(80*0.45V/ea)! They're easy to mount, as they're encased in clear epoxy with little leads coming
out of each end (0.2" spacing).
Will be doing some data collection on them under incandescent & halogen lighting, and putting the
data up online. Hope to have them on the pricelist in the next day or two. If you want them before,
just order them thru the "comments" section of the orderform.
Hopefully they will be on the Solarbotics
webpage soon so we can take a look.
Solarbotics has sold out of the
Photopopper 4.2b kits. Due to manufacturing delays, they won't have anymore stock until later this
week.
January 20
Here's couple pics of Steve's photovore.
flat.jpg
brain.jpg
Jesse made a solar-roller with hard-drive platter wheels.
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An excellent link from John. Describes new advances in
solarcell technology.
January 19
Chris Daniel has
posted an idea for the predator/prey cooperative project.
The RichFiles has moved to Xoom.
Traitor!!! ;-)
January 18
Kristoffer posted two pics of his Symet spider.
Spindel1.jpg
Spindel2.jpg
January 17
F.J.Tragauer has creates the SunBEAM
site. Looking good so far...
Robot Jurassic Park on exhibit at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose,
CA. Also, check out their
Tech Challenge.
January 15
Ben's
Info Series Archive is back on-line.
Here's an excellent Electronics
Resource site and another
page for newbies.
New BEAM Page in the works.
January 14
Another newbie
electronics site.
January 12
Steve made a page on those cute little
EMRos robots.
January 10
The BEAM Web
Ring Home Page has gone through a major update.
Kristoffer Lidman has created a new BEAM page called
RobotCentral with an ICQ
list and lots of pictures.
I can't find it but Steve said he posted a
head schematic.
Here's a LEGO/BEAM site.
Here's a LEGO walker
site.
January 7
The MicroVore Contest is
finally judged!!!
The Robotics Society of Southern California will be starting a new Beginning Robotics class at
10:00AM on Saturday, January 9th. 1999 at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). CSUF is
at the 57 freeway and Nutwood Avenue in Fullerton, California (Orange County, near Los Angeles).
We meet in room 321 of the electrical engineering building. The classes will be given at no charge.
An e-bot kit will be
available for purchase. E-mail Randy Eubanks with
questions.
January 6
Here's a good newbie tutorial
Electronics Page.
January 5
6th International Festival of Sciences and Technologies is being held in France on April 24-30.
Anyone in the area might want to enter a BEAM walker in the Spider competition.
Darrell put his head movie
back online.
Take a look at my other hobby.
January 4
Dennison is pumping them out like a little BEAM factory! Here's a pic of his micro-mag head.
head1.jpg.
Check out this little gem...a
miniature
robot made by Seiko and Epson available from eBay (on-line auction).
January 3
Dennison has added two more picture of his Snakebot.
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snake2.jpg
January 2
Ian has updated his Stryder Jr. Page.
January 1
Hope you had a happy New Year's Eve!
Richards Solar walker, Blue, is finished.
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