{"id":9014,"date":"2006-06-19T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9014"},"modified":"2006-06-19T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T01:08:14","slug":"beam-trimet-symet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9014","title":{"rendered":"BEAM Trimet Symet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/Trimet2.jpg\">This Make reader did a really nice job of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/drinkumbrella\/tags\/trimet\/\" target=\"new\">building<\/a> the three-cap Symet (a.k.a. a Trimet) from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/06\/beambots\/\" target=\"new\">BEAM projects piece<\/a> in the latest Make (No. 6). His build is almost identical to mine, but his discharge time and the amount of spins he gets is a bit less. Mine got a pretty satisfying rotation on each charge. Not sure which value of voltage trigger he used. His is so neat and beautifully soldered. Mine was messy and I solder like crap. Maybe that had something to do with it. I had more weight in lead shot. Here&#8217;s a link to a few more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/drinkumbrella\/tags\/trimet\/\" target=\"new\">Flickr pics<\/a>, and here&#8217;s a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mXq9jz1Z8xw\" target=\"new\">YouTube vid<\/a> showing the little robo-top in action.<\/p>\n<p> Here&#8217;s another builder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phyro.com\/beambot\/\" target=\"new\">bot<\/a>. He ingeniously added little flange\/fin thingies and it looks like a ball on the bottom (known in a BEAM trade as a motivator) to the motor axle. I&#8217;d like to see this one in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Make reader did a really nice job of building the three-cap Symet (a.k.a. a Trimet) from my BEAM projects piece in the latest Make (No. 6). His build is almost identical to mine, but his discharge time and the amount of spins he gets is a bit less. Mine got a pretty satisfying rotation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9014\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BEAM Trimet Symet&#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-9014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014","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=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}