From the BEAM mailing list, we're happy to report that Tom Gray managed to win 1st at the NAIT robotics challenge in Edmonton!: "Thanks again to all who endured my wails and made helpful suggestions earlier this year when I couldn't get my BS2 brained Sumovore to run. " "Grant M. of Solarbotics finally traced […]
More new stuff?
Dave Hrynkiw
November 26, 2002
What's going on here? We haven't had this much new product come online so quickly since... since... well, let's just say "in quite a while!"
Here's a book to add to your bookshelf: "Building Robot Drive Trains" by Clark & Owings. It's an excellent text on anything you need to know about putting power & motion to your robot. And unlike some retailers, we stock our own copies for quick shipping!
We also snuck in a new tiny supermagnet (Mag2) into our inventory. We saw these, and just had to have them for our shelf stock, as we have some neat ideas in store for these as Magbots.
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Painted GraviTrack
We always enjoy seeing our products being modified, revamped and DIY-ed, as well as the results of these transformations. Our customer Vera Kark provided us with some thoughtful feedback on adding mechanical tweaks to improve our Solar GraviTrack build and documentation. She also painted the brown MDF of the machine. She used tempera paint on the wood components still in panelized […]
Solar Eclipse at SB
Today August 21, 2017, we were treated to about 80% solar eclipse. In spite of the smoke, the weather cooperated so we couldn't miss this event. Pinhole projector boxes were made out of cereal and shipping boxes: Fancy ones were mounted onto a tripod, and a phone camera recording a time lapse video was taped to […]
Thursday Cool Links: Laser Origami, RFID...
Thursday is the new Wednesday, did you know? According to the new bylaw, you might have heard about this one... Okay, to be honest, we are late with the post... But doesn't that make it more exciting?! I bet it does, so here we go, the long-awaited links: Laser Origami We've got lasers. We like […]
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