Unfortunately an update went wrong! I have backups - so no real problem. But I have to wait to be on broadband connection again to fix it. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Nicolas Franceschini and som eother Frensh guys came up with an miniature helicopter with some insect like brain. The brain should be about 200 milligrams. Big question here: Is it built using BEAM technologies or at least BEAM principles?
Lets check the descriptions (to be continued).
Via engadget
The company PowerFilm Solar is manufacturing flexible solar cells, which can be purchased at FlexSolarCells (you will most likely find other dealers in your area). Marvelous 10000 possibilities for new Beam Bots!
I am really looking forward how much it will inspire you!
A very basic del.icio.us integration has been done for this blog.
The newest links tagged with beam_robotics are listed on the left. By using del.icio.us and tagging your links that way you can share your beam links with all beamers.
If you don’t know del.icio.us: It is a great way to share your links, synchronize it between different computers and to access it from the web. Simply have a look yourself!
In the last few months I was quite busy (as far as it was possible regarding to my main job) to ask a lot of people for allowance to cop over some of their content to the wiki.
First of ll big thanks to J Wolfgang Goerlich for encouraging me and letting me use content from his site! Namely I want to thank Simon Fraser for his contribution and support! Big thanks to Tom Elner to let me copy some of his stuff - a big addition by a big beamer! Big thanks to Vishy to use stuff from his site BEAM india.
The next steps will be to undertake everything a big content overhaul and work a bit on the structure of the website. I have also set up a flickr photo group where you can share the pictures of your bots! The next step is to integrate into this site.
I hope that the site will help you building your beam bots!
Big big thanks to Zach DeBord for using his flickr images for this WIKI. As somebody said: Zach puts the A back in BEAM.
He builts very beautifull bots. His pummers are marvelous! But check out his rollers, especially the Twin Engine Solar Roller! So I am very happy about his contribution. His pictures illustrate the content of this WIKI as pictures and as good examples of interesting, simple but beautifull bots!
If you also got interesting bots or nice pictures of your bot - sign up and post them on the wiki!
The beam wiki and its acompanying blog does not have a logo!
This must be changed! Register at the wiki, create a logo and add it to the logo page. At the end of the summer (more probably somewhere during the autumn). I will put up a poll to choose the best logo!
I set up this site since I did not know how to build a Beam robot. There are trillions of descriptions of different robots on the web and lots of details in the yahoo group. Every day a lot of people are posting hints and tips on the yahoo mailing list. The solarbotics.net site is a great ressources - but is not very much maintained. Lots of people publish schematics and pictures of their bots on private home pages. To make it short: It is hard to gather information. But it is hard to find the stuff you need and hard to extract the general principles out of the descriptions (I actually wanted to build a steerable walker). Lots of pages vanished from the internet.
So I decided to set up a wiki to collect and organize all the information that is availlable on the net in one place to create the connections between the different bits of information.
So I invite anybody interested in BEAM Robotics to use this site, join and help to make this blog the best information source for BEAM Robotics on the net.
I hope it ist possible to copy most of the articles from solarbotics.net to this wiki since they are a marvelous starting point but somwhat outdated (I contacted the site maintainer for permission but did not recieva an answer yet - another hint that it is abandoned. I think it should be legally and intentionally ok for anything that is released under a comaptible (aka the same creative commons) license as this wiki)
This blog will announce site news regarding this wiki. This site is a work in progress. Currently I am working on an del.icio.us integration to make link sharing for any BEAM entusiast easier. A second step will be integration of flickr to enable everybody to share his pictures with us!
This site is not meant to render the yahoo group useless. It is a marvelous mailing list with a lot of nice people helping each other. But I would be happy if anybody on the list also incorporates his tips and advices in the wiki. Lets make BEAM building easier!
A last word on legal issues. All pages in the wiki are published under a creative commons license. This means no commercial use and the ability to reuse the content as long as it is also published under a creative commons license. I think this is the most fair way to share all the information. If you have any problem regarding this license feel free to contact me (I want to figure out a way to publish articles under other common source licenses- since that enables me to collect information not licensed with a creative commons license but with some other kind of open source license).
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