Once a year, people from a nation usually take a day to celebrate their beloved country. While our crafty neighbors to the south get to call their day the impressive-sounding "INDEPENDENCE DAY", ours is called plain' ol' "Canada Day". Exotic it ain't, and whoever came up with that was lacking in the creativity department (Fun […]
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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