Month: August 2001

As the rest of North America will be closed Monday September 3rd, so will we. Business as usual on Tuesday!

Just a quick addition for now – there was a link submitted from the BEAM mailing list regarding Rod Brooks’ papers at MIT. Some very worthwhile reading for those long, summer afternoons in the shade… Read More…

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!

We do some stuff around the office just for fun once-in-a-while. One of these projects resulted in this set of Vibebots, built by Grant McKee. Simple, a bit noisy, but FUN!

Here’s a little something from Grant in the development lab – a very simple pair of circuits based on Mark Tilden’s Bicore Shok architecture. This circuit makes for a very simple, effective Photovore robots, or even a photo-head. Take a … Read more…

We’ve had some requests on exactly what do the pushpins do. So, we added videos for two of them. Push Pin 1 (Masher Point) Push Pin 3 (Chisel Point)