Beam News Archive November 98
November 30
MicroVore Contest deadline is midnight tommorrow!!!
Here's a couple last minute entries...
Ian Bernstein's
MicroBot and Justin Fisher's
Bug.
Beautiful photovores guys!!! Man, judging is gonna be tough!
Donald Papp's Spider can now be found at this new location.
Solarbotics has some new deals for the
Christmas season. How would you like two 24x22, two 24x33 and two 37x33 high output solarcells
for $25.00 or Tiny Pager Motors for $12.00 each!!! Thanks for the great deals Dave!
Also available now at Solarbotics is the
manual for the Photopopper 4.2 kit (in the download section). If you thought MY instructions on
how to build a photovore were good...you gotta check out Dave's!
November 29
About a week ago, Windows 95 decided to stop working. I just got everything back to normal today.
Here's everything that happened in the last week.
Bob Shannon's contest entry, Vore-n-more
. Check it out.
Mark Fedasiuk has also announced his contest entry,
Explorer Bot.
Chris Nichols has also got him microvore contest entry in on time! Check out
Photovore #4.
Twitch is Darrell
Johnson's MicroVore entry.
Ben Hitchcock's ALF is
the only toy hack entered in the Microvore contest so far.
Here's Steven Audette's MicroVore entry,
Mighty Mouse.
Ian has posted the results from the BEAM games in India at BEAM Online. Congratulations Ian...I knew you would do well!
Dave posted a schematic for his SunScout two-motor walker.
BG Micro Lense motors have come and gone. Boy they go fast!
November 20
The lens motor assemblies from BG Micro
that I used on my walkers are available again. Get em while they last!!! Dilip gets the prize
for the sharp eyes. Heres a tip...When you order them ask him to remove the lens to save shipping
weight.
New BEAM forum
on-line.
November 19
The Life 2.0 contest is
for artistic works of modern a-life. Check out the links at the bottom of the page.
November 17
Donald Papp has posted pictures of
Spider, his entry in the
MicroVore Contest.
All you procrastinators out
there...GET A MOVE ON!!! Contest deadline is December 1st.
November 16
Dennison found this gem. It's a pic of Tildens Spyder walker.
The International BEAM Games held in Lucknow, India are now over... Still awaiting results...
November 14
I just got a video capture board so expect some on-line video clips as soon as I figure out
how to use it! Many thanks go out to markf.
November 12
Solarbotics now stocks some tiny
LEDs. With operating current at about 5mA, these things are perfect for microcores. Take a
look at the on-line order form.
That Hexapod has been suspended. Corporate pigs. Supposedly a manufacturer error.
November 11
Looking for a neat little hexapod kit?
Siemens Laurino Robot is a steal at $89.00. It includes 12 servos and all
the hardware.
November 10
Solarbotics will have a booth set up
at the Western Canadian Robot Games on
November 14.
BTW...Congratulations on the new baby Dave!
November 8
Couple new pics posted here.
November 7
Susanne Still's Research Archive
has some informative papers co-written by Mark Tilden. Thanks for the pointer Zoz.
November 6
Follow the link to the BEAM IRC Channel
homepage.
November 4
Jonny started a java
Chat room for BEAM topics.
I found the IRC channel (see Nov 3).
November 3
Hannes Kocznar has announced an IRC BEAM channel. #BEAM on DALnet. I looked for it to
confirm but couldn't find it. I'm not a big IRC user anyways.
November 2
Ben Hitchcock has compiled all his excellent [INFO] series articles on his
web site.
All the ascii images have been redone as gif images. Very informative stuff!
Technology Education Index is
going to mirror my Photovore Page. They are
aiming to build a web site which the supports students, teachers, hobbyists and others by
providing a bank of learning resources related to Technology Education.
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