Other Bots

Creator: Kristoffer Lidman
Web Site: Robot Central
Bot name: ARM I
Description: This is my first robot arm, it's working fine except for the claw, I should try to make a new one out of aluminum.

Creator: Kristoffer Lidman
Web Site: Robot Central
Bot name: Playboy
Description: This is just a HBS directly connected to a solarcell. (Maybe i could make HBS solarengine of it if I get any more info on those) DEAD, MY CAT PUSHED IT OUT THE WINDOW AND NOW IT'S LOST IN THE SNOW :-(

Creator: Ivar Thorson
Web Site: Basic BEAM Robotics
Bot name: Robot Arm
Description: A large robot arm I built with my friend's Erector Set. It operated purely on hand levers, mainly because his set only had one motor. It was fairly big, but couldn't lift things very well because of a weak gripper.

Creator: Ivar Thorson
Web Site: Basic BEAM Robotics
Bot name: King Blowhard
Description: Pictures of a robot I built to enter in the regional robot fire fighting contest. I didn't finish it in time, (started building the week before, last minute idea) but had a lot of fun building it. I call him "King Blowhard" because he tracks down the candle and turns on a large fan mounted on top. There is no microprocessor (it uses only a few inverters and transistors!), but if it had worked, it without touching the walls and blown it out in under a minute. It needs some more tweaking, as yet.

Creator: Kit from Solarbotics
Web Site: Solarbotics
Bot name: Mini-Ball
Description: This Miniball has a selectable time-delay of 1/2/4/8/16/32/64/128 minutes, with an additional switch to make it wait hours if needed! There is also a selectable voltage clamp that will limit the stored voltage to 5 volts. This means if the Miniball stores 5 volts before the time limit is up, it forces a trigger, and resets the timer. This removes the problem of the miniball waiting for the timer to time-out when the maximum voltage has already been reached. This is proving to be a very active robot, especially when it triggers with a full 5 volts stored in it's 0.33F capacitors. It seems to be the only match for our personal BEAM Turbot, as it is too large (4" diameter) for the Turbot's arms to get around. Also, the Miniball seems to like gathering speed and steam-rolling the other 'bots in our robot jurassic park.

Creator: Dave Hrynkiw
Web Site: Solarbotics
Bot name: Pturbot 1.0
Description: The Pturbot is based around the shape and electronics used on our Photopopper 4.2 kit, with some serious modifications. As expected, it is turning into the major predator in our own "Robot Jurassic Park", being responsible for turning two Photovore tactile sensors into springs; several solarcell chips; three mechanical failures; and numerous BEAMbug-immobilizing headlocks. Sometimes it takes serious effort to de-tangle these messes. Ever work on one of those bent-metal rod puzzles? You get the idea... We may be turning this into a limitied-edition sister kit to the MiniBall Kit, as it uses the same gearmotor. It is a truly active little bot, that is a lot of fun to watch in action.

Creator: Mark Tilden
Found at: Solarbotics
Bot name: Snake Bot
Description: This is a very interesting creature, which utilizes modular construction along it's segments. This device will tumble throughout it's environment and adeptly wrap itself around objects it meets. This Mark Tilden design (who else?) uses some of his latest controller creations called "Bicores", which are very flexible in that groups of them can be broken apart and rejoined while in operation. This means that a 21-segmented snakebot could be broken into 7 3-segment sub-snakebots, each with independent control and power units. The implication of this is that they'd make effective landmine-detonation robots, as they have practically 100% land coverage as they tumble, and will keep going when it blows up in 1/2th's, 1/4th's, 1/8th's...etc!

Creator: Mark Tilden
Found at: Solarbotics
Bot name: Turbot 3.0
Description: Turbot 3.0's are a new "species" in the Robot Jurassic Park (RJP). Although very adept at wondering around on their own and getting into trouble, when they MATE UP they turn into a single new creature with two revolving arms. The trick here is that at each corner of the device, there is a cylindrical high-power magnet mounted on a bushing. When the magnets grab onto the magnets of the other turbot, they form a considerable mechanical bond, but not so strong that they cannot be broken apart by their own limbs. So if they mate up in a nonproductive geometry, they break apart and reform, or go their separate ways. Mark set up this first pair of Turbots so that one has a long and quick arm for speedy movement (but not much power), and the other has a shorter, torquier arm that can muscle its way through lots, but is not very quick.

Creator: Mark Tilden???
Found at: Solarbotics
Bot name: TURBOT 2.0
Description: The undisputed champ & velociraptor of the Robot Jurassic Park - the TURBOT 2.0. This vicious critter has been known to take the necks of BEAMants (see above), and snap them. Really interesting to watch, especially on time-lapse video. It moves by swinging those long arms all the way around itself, doing twisted somersaults. We've seen video footage of it trying to get from one side of a table over a 2" fence to the other side where there's a brighter light source. It makes 3 attempts, and when it finally makes it over, it stays in the stronger light pool. A very adept photovore with tenacious climbing capabilities, and on only 4 transistors!

Creators: Mark Tilden, Jan Frigo and Kurt Moore
Web Site: Solarbotics
Bot name: StarBot 1.0
Description: This is one of the prototypes for the Pixelsats being developed by the team of Mark Tilden, Jan Frigo and Kurt Moore of the Los Alamos National Laboratories. These devices have been in the press lately, including the September '98 issue of Electronics Now Magazine.

Creator: Mark Tilden
Found at: Solarbotics
Bot name: MAGBOT
Description: Another creation from the twisted mind of Mark Tilden - MAGBOT, a BEAM solaroller that doesn't roll. Instead of using the stored power from the Solarengine to drive a motor, it dumps the power through a coil of wire mounted on the underside of this Magbot. Laying underneath this creature is an absolutely separate magnet which the coil reacts with. When energized, the coil is repulsed up and away from to the north end of the magnet, and settles down. Once landed, the magnet pulls itself along underneath the Magbot, attracted by the ferrous material in it. The effect is quite impressive on a low friction glass surface, with the Magbot pulsing up & away, landing, then the magnet pulling itself along underneath. Each leap is only fractions of an inch - perhaps 1/8 or so, but it repeats every 2 seconds.

Creator: Richard Piotter
Web Site: Richfiles
Bot Name:
Description: A few diffen't types of solar bots. Check web site for more info.

Creator: Steve
Web Site: Steve's Page
Bot name: Skipper
Description: Here is one of those shaker things made out of a pager motor with the weight left one and guitar wire legs. This is , so far, my favorite BEAM gizmo. He looks just like a water skipper, so what do you think I named him. None other then Skipper.

Creator: Steve
Web Site: Steve's Page
Bot name: LCD Name Tag
Description: This was very odd. I started making mine on the same day that Ian posted this Bi-core LCD driver. Although I couldn't spell my name on it, it was still very much a success.

Creator: Andreas Forsblom
Web Site: Andreas Forsblom's BEAM Robotics Page
Bot name: Flagspinner 1.0 Description: It is my latest desktop toy that just spins a flag. It uses a freeformed 1381 solarengine, a 0.1F cap, a Sunceram 3733 solarcell and an escap motor that I was going to use in one of my other projects.

	Creator: Kristoffer Lidman Web Site: Robot Central Bot name: ARM I Description: This is my first robot arm, it's working fine except for the claw, I should try to make a new one out of aluminum.
	Creator: Kristoffer Lidman Web Site: Robot Central Bot name: Playboy Description: This is just a HBS directly connected to a solarcell. (Maybe i could make HBS solarengine of it if I get any more info on those) DEAD, MY CAT PUSHED IT OUT THE WINDOW AND NOW IT'S LOST IN THE SNOW :-(
	Creator: Ivar Thorson Web Site: Basic BEAM Robotics Bot name: Robot Arm Description: A large robot arm I built with my friend's Erector Set. It operated purely on hand levers, mainly because his set only had one motor. It was fairly big, but couldn't lift things very well because of a weak gripper.
	Creator: Ivar Thorson Web Site: Basic BEAM Robotics Bot name: King Blowhard Description: Pictures of a robot I built to enter in the regional robot fire fighting contest. I didn't finish it in time, (started building the week before, last minute idea) but had a lot of fun building it. I call him "King Blowhard" because he tracks down the candle and turns on a large fan mounted on top. There is no microprocessor (it uses only a few inverters and transistors!), but if it had worked, it without touching the walls and blown it out in under a minute. It needs some more tweaking, as yet.
	Creator: Kit from Solarbotics Web Site: Solarbotics Bot name: Mini-Ball Description: This Miniball has a selectable time-delay of 1/2/4/8/16/32/64/128 minutes, with an additional switch to make it wait hours if needed! There is also a selectable voltage clamp that will limit the stored voltage to 5 volts. This means if the Miniball stores 5 volts before the time limit is up, it forces a trigger, and resets the timer. This removes the problem of the miniball waiting for the timer to time-out when the maximum voltage has already been reached. This is proving to be a very active robot, especially when it triggers with a full 5 volts stored in it's 0.33F capacitors. It seems to be the only match for our personal BEAM Turbot, as it is too large (4" diameter) for the Turbot's arms to get around. Also, the Miniball seems to like gathering speed and steam-rolling the other 'bots in our robot jurassic park.
	Creator: Dave Hrynkiw Web Site: Solarbotics Bot name: Pturbot 1.0 Description: The Pturbot is based around the shape and electronics used on our Photopopper 4.2 kit, with some serious modifications. As expected, it is turning into the major predator in our own "Robot Jurassic Park", being responsible for turning two Photovore tactile sensors into springs; several solarcell chips; three mechanical failures; and numerous BEAMbug-immobilizing headlocks. Sometimes it takes serious effort to de-tangle these messes. Ever work on one of those bent-metal rod puzzles? You get the idea... We may be turning this into a limitied-edition sister kit to the MiniBall Kit, as it uses the same gearmotor. It is a truly active little bot, that is a lot of fun to watch in action.
	Creator: Mark Tilden Found at: Solarbotics Bot name: Snake Bot Description: This is a very interesting creature, which utilizes modular construction along it's segments. This device will tumble throughout it's environment and adeptly wrap itself around objects it meets. This Mark Tilden design (who else?) uses some of his latest controller creations called "Bicores", which are very flexible in that groups of them can be broken apart and rejoined while in operation. This means that a 21-segmented snakebot could be broken into 7 3-segment sub-snakebots, each with independent control and power units. The implication of this is that they'd make effective landmine-detonation robots, as they have practically 100% land coverage as they tumble, and will keep going when it blows up in 1/2th's, 1/4th's, 1/8th's...etc!
	Creator: Mark Tilden Found at: Solarbotics Bot name: Turbot 3.0 Description: Turbot 3.0's are a new "species" in the Robot Jurassic Park (RJP). Although very adept at wondering around on their own and getting into trouble, when they MATE UP they turn into a single new creature with two revolving arms. The trick here is that at each corner of the device, there is a cylindrical high-power magnet mounted on a bushing. When the magnets grab onto the magnets of the other turbot, they form a considerable mechanical bond, but not so strong that they cannot be broken apart by their own limbs. So if they mate up in a nonproductive geometry, they break apart and reform, or go their separate ways. Mark set up this first pair of Turbots so that one has a long and quick arm for speedy movement (but not much power), and the other has a shorter, torquier arm that can muscle its way through lots, but is not very quick.
	Creator: Mark Tilden??? Found at: Solarbotics Bot name: TURBOT 2.0 Description: The undisputed champ & velociraptor of the Robot Jurassic Park - the TURBOT 2.0. This vicious critter has been known to take the necks of BEAMants (see above), and snap them. Really interesting to watch, especially on time-lapse video. It moves by swinging those long arms all the way around itself, doing twisted somersaults. We've seen video footage of it trying to get from one side of a table over a 2" fence to the other side where there's a brighter light source. It makes 3 attempts, and when it finally makes it over, it stays in the stronger light pool. A very adept photovore with tenacious climbing capabilities, and on only 4 transistors!
	Creators: Mark Tilden, Jan Frigo and Kurt Moore Web Site: Solarbotics Bot name: StarBot 1.0 Description: This is one of the prototypes for the Pixelsats being developed by the team of Mark Tilden, Jan Frigo and Kurt Moore of the Los Alamos National Laboratories. These devices have been in the press lately, including the September '98 issue of Electronics Now Magazine.
	Creator: Mark Tilden Found at: Solarbotics Bot name: MAGBOT Description: Another creation from the twisted mind of Mark Tilden - MAGBOT, a BEAM solaroller that doesn't roll. Instead of using the stored power from the Solarengine to drive a motor, it dumps the power through a coil of wire mounted on the underside of this Magbot. Laying underneath this creature is an absolutely separate magnet which the coil reacts with. When energized, the coil is repulsed up and away from to the north end of the magnet, and settles down. Once landed, the magnet pulls itself along underneath the Magbot, attracted by the ferrous material in it. The effect is quite impressive on a low friction glass surface, with the Magbot pulsing up & away, landing, then the magnet pulling itself along underneath. Each leap is only fractions of an inch - perhaps 1/8 or so, but it repeats every 2 seconds.
	Creator: Richard Piotter Web Site: Richfiles Bot Name: Description: A few diffen't types of solar bots. Check web site for more info.
	Creator: Steve Web Site: Steve's Page Bot name: Skipper Description: Here is one of those shaker things made out of a pager motor with the weight left one and guitar wire legs. This is , so far, my favorite BEAM gizmo. He looks just like a water skipper, so what do you think I named him. None other then Skipper.
	Creator: Steve Web Site: Steve's Page Bot name: LCD Name Tag Description: This was very odd. I started making mine on the same day that Ian posted this Bi-core LCD driver. Although I couldn't spell my name on it, it was still very much a success.
	Creator: Andreas Forsblom Web Site: Andreas Forsblom's BEAM Robotics Page Bot name: Flagspinner 1.0 Description: It is my latest desktop toy that just spins a flag. It uses a freeformed 1381 solarengine, a 0.1F cap, a Sunceram 3733 solarcell and an escap motor that I was going to use in one of my other projects.