{"id":8931,"date":"2006-05-11T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T23:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2006-05-11T23:38:58","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T23:38:58","slug":"microsoft-beambots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8931","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft BEAMbots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/makerBeamBot.jpg\"> Well, not exactly. But Make has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/04\/maker_faire_microsofties_make.html\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> on their site about some Microsoft engineers that were showing off these <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BEAM_robot\" target=\"new\">BEAM robots<\/a> at the Maker Faire. Apparently, the Big Soft encouraged all of its engineers with &#8220;Make-style hobbies&#8221; to show off some of the ol&#8217; corporate joie de vivre at the annual geek-country faire. Several engineers brought photovore BEAMbots, and extremely cool ones at that. Here&#8217;s a link to some <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.oreilly.com\/make\/make_faire_msbugbots.mp4\" target=\"new\">video footage<\/a> of the sun-worshipping little automatons (the robots, not the MS engineers!). You can also find some macro shots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friday.com\/bbum\/2006\/04\/29\/maker-faire-bug-bots\/\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/makerPhotovore.jpg\">And, be sure to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoddrobot.com\/\" target=\"new\">website<\/a> of VJ DeLeon, one of the bot-building engineers. He&#8217;s got some very juicey stuff here, including most of the info and diagrams you&#8217;d need to build the types of BEAMbots seen here. If you successfully build the two solarengine-based bot projects I have in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/06\/\" target=\"new\">Make No. 6<\/a>, a bot like this, especially VJ&#8217;s FredFly (right), might be a suitable next project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly. But Make has a piece on their site about some Microsoft engineers that were showing off these BEAM robots at the Maker Faire. Apparently, the Big Soft encouraged all of its engineers with &#8220;Make-style hobbies&#8221; to show off some of the ol&#8217; corporate joie de vivre at the annual geek-country faire. Several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft BEAMbots?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}