Doing a search on Flickr, to see if anyone else had put up pics of the two BEAM projects in Make, I found this builder’s amazing BEAM creations. He does really beautifully designed critters, most of them fashioned from techno-junk. After the jump, you’ll find his take on the two types of bots I covered in the Make piece, Symets and Solarrollers. He made his Roller out of parts from an old Walkman and the Symet from a CD-ROM drive.
I used a picture in the Beginner’s Guide to BEAM article of Harold Ilano’s incredibly cool Black Vermin, his take on Mark Tilden’s infamous VBUG 1.5, built from a Sony Walkman and an oven timer (among other parts). Harold has a bunch of other cool bots on his site, including the recently built Hermit, a wee-little four-legged walker that uses five micro-servos. Check out the vids of it in action.
