Although not a true BEAM robot, this simple schematic by Randy Sargent is small, simple, slick, and effective. My own version uses a pair of pager motors and three cells from a 9V rechargeable battery. Hard to get any simpler than this device!
Ladies and gentlemen! Regular men! Children with fake IDs! Plowing through our vast inventory of things to announce, today in the glorious colours of Raspberry Pi, here we go:
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Raspberry Pi 2 Bundle $62.24 Get started with the Raspberry Pi V2 Bundle. Includes the Raspberry Pi V2, Case, 4GB NOOBS OS memory card, and 5.5V power supply. |
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NOOBS Rpi preloaded OS sdcard $10.00 Pre-burned NOOBS operating system for the Raspberry Pi (all version) |
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Raspberry Pi - GPIO Extension Ribbon Cable (15cm) $2.95 Extend those Pi I/O lines up to 15cm (6") away. |
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5.5V 2A Power supply with micro USB connector $5.95 With a 2 meter (6.6') micro-USB connector, this power supply is ideal for powering single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi. |
And now I have to confess I totally plagiarized that first line. It is so awesome I just needed to use it.
Although not a true BEAM robot, this simple schematic by Randy Sargent is small, simple, slick, and effective. My own version uses a pair of pager motors and three cells from a 9V rechargeable battery. Hard to get any simpler than this device!
So there's one link today that makes my artistic soul happy - it is the laser-controlled Etch A Sketch. Although I never owned an Etch A Sketch (some smarty pants might say right here that in Russia we used rusty nails to draw on cardboard instead), but the idea to draw with a laser beam […]
Sorry for the delay in announcements, folks! Been quite busy getting these latest devices ready for sale. The latest addition to the Solarbotics family of products is the Bicore Experimenter's PCB (aka:) BEP. This is a collection of useful, proven circuits that have been used by Solarbotics, and many other users of Mark Tilden's Bicore […]
No matter that we've been beating this website up for the better part of 6 months, you guys still find some bizarre bugs. Thanks to all that have been sending in the bug reports. We'll get the fly-swatter out Monday to squish them. Thanks again for all your (mostly very positive) feedback! Dave Hrynkiw, President
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