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!
Today is Friday, and we are announcing a range of parts that might be helpful in your projects:
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Teensy-LC USB Development Board $11.65 Teensy-LC delivers an impressive collection of capabilities to make modern electronic projects simpler. |
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Infrared Receiver 2.5-5.5V 38kHz $1.40 Compact IR Receiver for sensor applications. |
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2xAAA Battery Holder with Cover and Switch $1.50 For those of you building smaller devices, you may appreciate a holder for a pair of AAA batteries. |
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Lead-free Solder Spool (100g) $6.50 Solder, without lead! |
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Raspberry Pi - GPIO Extension Ribbon Cable (15cm) $2.95 Extend those Pi I/O lines up to 15cm (6") away. |
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!
We're happy to announce that the 2001 Los Alamos BEAM Robotics Workshop is going ahead this May 3 to 6th! After much delay and threats of budget-cuts, funding has finally been secured. Thanks to Joe Vigal and Paul Argo of the Los Alamos National Laboratories for keeping this great event alive for this final year! […]
Solarbotics is helping out local fashion designers prepare their e-wearables for the Calgary MakeFashion. This time, Tony Grimes dropped in to experiment with his fiber-optic cloth from SensingTex as an illuminating surface, but the included 5mm LED was not dazzling enough. Time to hack in our 3W RGB Star Controller! The plan was to shift […]
Well, 2010 is in full swing and we've been pretty busy. We don't have any new product to show off this week, but our Flickr feed has been getting a lot of love - we just received our first pick and place machine(s), and we've uploaded all of our magazine ads. Well, I guess that's […]
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