Beam News Archive September 98
September 30
All this time this site has been up and no one told me the Living Machines and Satbot links
were broken. Oh well...they are up now.
September 28
Brand new cable modem connection to the internet...oh yeah...smokin'
The new e-mail address is chiumanfu@home.com. It might take
me a while to update all the e-mail links in my web-site. Reason...LAZY!
Richard Piotter has added pics of his BEAM robots on Richfiles.
September 26
Dennison has posted a
pic of his snakebot.
Darrell has put up a quick
time movie of his Bi-core head in action. Excellent tracking ability and it looks cool too!
September 25
Ivar Thorson has been busy fabricating a Lynxmotion Hexopod II imitation out of carbon fiber sheets. Every aspect of the
design and machining process is explained. Excellent work Ivar. One day, you have to BEAMize it for
comparison.
also discovered after a little digging...
Ivar's preliminary page detailing a
5 Motor walker. Lots of great schematics and diagrams.
Bram's web site has been updated and the
walker manual has been revised.
September 24
BEAMCentral has been renamed BEAM Online.
Ian has added lots of new content including tutorials on servo modifications, removing pager weights
and building an SOV head (soon).
September 23
chao@intergate.bc.ca is back on-line but won't be for long.
I'm switching ISP's.
Ian has updated BEAM Central.
Core BEAM Robotics has moved
to a new address.
September 22
The BEAM Heretics site has begun
achiving the mailing list. All you newbies out there review the archive before you ask questions
on the e-mail list.
My e-mail is still down. If you gotta contact me, my temporary address is
chiumanfu@yahoo.com.
September 21
My e-mail account is toast so if you've been trying to contact me...sorry. I'll post when it's
back up. Looks like it's time for a new ISP.
September 18
After talking to Dave, we agreed that after "10" MicroVore contestants post their images on-line,
he would donate a Miniball kit valued at $160 for top prize. The Walker kit with two BG Micro
lense motors, all the electronics and neccessary frame construction materials will be awarded
to the second place contestant. As of today, 15 people have entered...now lets get those images
up! If you still haven't entered, what the **** are you waiting for (excuse my french)?
September 17
Jade Mountain has a
selection of solar cells with excellent power output but higher cost. They also have tonnes of
other cool solar energy related stuff. Thanks to Ian for finding this one.
September 16
The judge list for My Microvore contest has been agreed on. Drum roll please... The three
judges are Mark Tilden, Dave Hrynkiw and me!!! Please do not e-mail any of the judges for advice
on building your MicroVore.
Sounds like a good idea to me:
"Might I offer a further suggestion that they also provide an image of the
competitors tracks as made on a small sheet of black cardboard with some
light sand sprinkled on it. Give us an idea of the behavior.
markt."
Details regarding this new rule on the MicroVore Contest page.
My link colours are changing...for the colour blind among us. Hmmm...green sound good to you?
Plastecs Company has various solarcells for
sale. I think Solarbotics cells have a better power to size ratio at a lower cost. Might be worth
looking into though.
September 12
PhyrKrakr has announced his new site, Core BEAM Robotics
September 11
My MicroVore Contest is up and running. This is your chance to show
the rest of the BEAM community your craftmanship and possibly win one of many great prizes.
September 8
Laurence Mayer's Beam List Archive is
available for download from Michael Kennan's site.
September 7
Just got back from one hell of a Labor Day long week-end! Hope you all took advantage like I
did. There's not much going on in the BEAM community these days but I'm working on getting new
pages up and a top secret BEAM competition.
BEAM Tek FAQ
site is back up.
September 2
Advanced BEAM Topics BBS site,
formerly BEAM Heretics, is up and running. I hope everyone will take advantage and post their
experiments.
September 1
Terry's
Non-BEAM photovore page has been updated.
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