Happy New Years! It is officially 2006 in my slice of the world. The pie's cold, the coffee's hot, and the house is quiet. Now to finish off some emails from...
Hello David, ... Quite the company you keep. ... That makes a fair amount of sense. DARPA is talking about running another challenge, this time focusing on...
The Animaris development I found to be particularly imaginative. Jansen started with 11 measurements, ran these thru a genetic algorithm to determine the best...
... What a trap for us "information addiction" sufferers. How to sum up a year, I have been wondering for the past few days. In terms of more transistors,...
These are some of the threads that I enjoyed or was inspired by. Scott Burns, "head experiments", 10 May 2005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beam/message/49199 ...
Remember Bruce Robin's first law of robotics? "The capability for complex behavior is limited by the number of sensors." More sensors, please. Motor Current...
Jo Charles, "Re: [beam] Re: I'm back and confused!(was Nerval Nets)", 4 Jan 2005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beam/message/46686 Jo Charles, "'Last time'...
Mycroft adapted the PICAXE for use as a solar engine. Mycroft2152, "PICAXE Solar Engine", 11 May 2005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beam/message/49252 ...
We made a few additions to the Beam Wiki in 2005. I posted these, but they truly were a group effort. Thanks in particular to Woody and Bruce Robinson for...
Yes, congratulations to Brett for the well-deserved first place. Congrats to you, too, Eric and the others who built robots for the Micro Robot contest....
Happy new year, Wilf, Wolfgang, Harold and with all beamer of the world. Thank your ideas and your assistance and that the year 2006 is creative and...
... Personally, the most influential link of 2005 was Wolfgang's post about Theo Jansen's wind walkers. Being between semesters at school, I've spend the bulk...
Happy New Year, BEAM, Wolfgang, ... OK, I didn't mean to be name-dropping. He's someone I met in an online community -- I had a question about probability...
Hi JWG, I was hoping you'd take up the challenge, and thanks so much for the great job. Indeed, a lot has happened and some really coole stuff both for...
I loved those things ever since I first saw them when they were last mentioned here. In fact, I even got a friend to by me his book in Holland, but it was lost...
Until I get the printable paper template ready (working on mark 3 now), I attach the image and the lengths in pixels (pretty basic really) which I used as a...
Hi Adi and Scott In the photos section of Theo's site there was an image of a single leg on what I can only assume is a test rig. It would be rather simple to...
Hi Adi, Thanks for the measurements on Theo's photo. A week or so ago, I wrote a little program to simulate the motion of this linkage. I entered your values,...
Hi Scott, David, Gentlemen, don't forget the parallax! I'll see if I can get myself ... Yes, I have not forgotten about this. Actually, I think parallax is not...
Hello everyone, I´m in DESPERATE need for 1 or 2 pieces of this uController: TMP47P242VN It´s made by toshiba. Anyone?!?!?? Thnkz Juan Cubillo Hello...
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It always takes me a while to understand these mechanical contraptions. I posted a simplified stick drawing showning what I believe is the single fixed fulcrum...
My understanding is that the other fixed support is the one closest to the crank (up and left from the one you identify). Maybe I'm mistaken, though. Scott...
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