Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02118
To: beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:53:04 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM Wokshop '99
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I wanted to go, but my car would rust through if I drove there! ):
Regarding the Kits, do the participants buy them there and build them,
or is it something they get for a participation fee, or are they
donated??? I've yet to go to one. I'd like to try to go next year (even
if I have to ride a bus)! When and where are the next event(s). What
does it cost to go, and how much $ should I expect to need to eat/build
kits (or does building come before eating??? :)
I'd love to finish up all my main projects and be able to show them off
in something other than a photo on my web page.
Speaking of which, does anyone have a Quicktime VR authoring kit? It'd
be cool to be able to make rotatable 3D images of robots for a web page!
Jean auBois wrote:
>
> ->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.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> jab
>
> Do you have a BEAM question? Try one of the following sites -- they really
> help!
> BEAM Robotics Tek FAQ http://people.ne.mediaone.net/bushbo/beam/FAQ.html
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--
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
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