Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02116
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:01:20 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Safety (was: BEAM Wokshop '99)
->For those who aren't able to be there, is there any information available on
->the proceedings, building activities, etc?
I only bopped in for about 1/2 hour this morning. It looks like they've
got 75..125 participants, primarily in the middle and early high-school age
group. On average, there are five or six people at each table -- as far as
I could tell they'd been particularly neat about such things as soldering
iron wires (perhaps a hole in the middle of the table?) and plenty of tools
seem to be available. This is being held in the "basement" of a brand new
Senior center here in Los Alamos -- basement is in quotes because it is
really built into a hillside so there are huge windows and a lot of light.
It is a handsome working environment.
The kits being built appear to be: magbot butterflies, solarspeeders,
photopoppers, Type 1 walkers (two motor), and Type 2 walkers (four motors).
There are also kits for a stationary light-seeking head that also had
touch sensors on it: when I asked Hrynkiw why it had the touch sensors he
remarked that they'd be useful when the head is put on top of a walker.
All of the kits I saw are Solarbotics'.
I'm not sure if they had a short tutorial in soldering because I got there
about 1 1/2 hours after things were supposed to start, but some people are
holding soldering irons and touching PCBs with them in some of the most
inventive ways I have ever seen !
While I was there, Ian's dad was playing guitar, which I've heard him do at
the other three workshops I've observed. That is rather nice. Speaking of
Ian, I expect that his web-page reports will be far more detailed than this
little sketch.
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