News from Mr. Tilden: The official unveiling of Hasbro/Wowwee BIOBugs will be September 14, with a huge unleasing of 100 of these critters into the desert of White Sands, New Mexico. Additionally, Mark himself is slated to be on the Rosie O'Donnell Show sometimes on the week of September 17. This will coincide with the […]
Solarbotics Event Sponsorship
Dave Hrynkiw
September 13, 2005
Brian Fields is heading up a new BEAM botting competition which Solarbotics is proud to be in association with. To borrow from the website:
To enter this contest all you have to do is build the smallest robot you can in one of these three categories
Turbot, Walker, or Photovore. This contest is much like ChiuÂ’s contest way back when but, I just added two more categories. This contest is totally free and anyone can participate in it.
Soooo, get building!
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Geek Engineers wanted
With the departure of our two interns, we're finding that we miss them. Damn them and their desire to complete their education... Since they left, we're finding we have too many projects and not enough hands to get them done. Got some/any of the following qualifications? Practical experience with sensors Experience with 8-bit embedded computing […]
Spyder Detail Pictures
One of the most popular BEAM Walkers ever built was Mark Tilden's VBug 1.1 - Spyder. We've recently had the opportunity to shoot a series of high-resolution detail pictures of this robot, which we're now making available to you!
Wednesday Cool Links
If I could choose a super power, I would pick the ability to erase people's memory. And lucky for me, I've just been granted a free wish from The Magic Taco. Get ready, everyone. Pew! Done! Whew, now we never have to write a new post again. Check out these "new" links we prepared for […]
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