Making a Modern Musical Beambot

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  • @Matthew-lh3zy
    @Matthew-lh3zy หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Yay someone else remembers BEAM Robotics! I built my first Solarroller and Photovore in grade 6. As a kid I got to meet Mark Tilden ~30y ago at a Calgary robotics fest. He had a presentation on how it's smart to have dumb/cheap robotics perform complex tasks. For example, have 1000's of cheap expendable robots clear a mine field. My dad and I were the only 2 people to show up for his talk, so we got basically a 1-on-1 chat with him. It was awesome. This must have been around 1995 or so, and soon after I created the first web page on how to build your own solarroller. It was the same year Mark started selling kits for them and I got a cease-and-desist letter from him. I was a kid so yeah most of the actual instructions were from the official solarroller kit his was selling, with just my own photos. I wish I sill had that letter. I'd frame it and put it on my wall. (And in case he sees this: Sorry Mark no harm intended! I was in grade 6 and just wanted to make a web page about something I loved)

    • @MichaelKrzyzaniak
      @MichaelKrzyzaniak  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cool story, that is awesome that you were making these things back then, I knew about them but it was outside of my skillset at the time. I apologize on behalf of makers everywhere for the cease and desist letter. It would be a cool souvenir though.

    • @evanbarnes9984
      @evanbarnes9984 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dude this is awesome! I was into BEAM too just a few years after that as a kid. I always wanted to meet Tilden. I would especially love to now because my career path converged on his somewhat since we both design robotics toys! I've been wanting to try to archive as many old BEAM websites as possible. I was recently digging around on some on the Wayback Machine, and there's an unfortunate amount of link rot, so I think I'm going to start trying to reach out to the original authors to see if some of the images and schematics can be recovered.

  • @evanbarnes9984
    @evanbarnes9984 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude I love BEAM! I was into that in like 2002 as a 12 year old. Crazy to realize in retrospect that that actually helped lead me down my current career path designing robotics toys. I've been wanting to get a bit of a revival going for BEAM. There are a lot of really cool concepts worth exploring there, and there's something really beautiful about the analog circuits, minimalism, and emergent behavior. So cool to see someone keeping this alive!

  • @gregturd8610
    @gregturd8610 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is awesome, this is the most creative build I have ever seen!

  • @sunniestpluto
    @sunniestpluto หลายเดือนก่อน

    First video of yours i have seen. In the first 30 seconds, you have captured my attention and made me interested in a field of robotics I didnt know existed.

  • @Fewkulele
    @Fewkulele หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks for sharing about BEAMbots, I hadn't heard about them before! The idea reminds me of Braitenberg vehicles. Time to look up more!

    • @MichaelKrzyzaniak
      @MichaelKrzyzaniak  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Time for me to look up more on Braitenberg vehicles!

    • @davidneale-lorello2954
      @davidneale-lorello2954 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had the same thought. Read up on them in grad school (psychology) and immediately was reminded by your light sensor-driven idea!

    • @evanbarnes9984
      @evanbarnes9984 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vehicles and BEAM might as well be part of the same philosophy!

  • @specist
    @specist หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved making the solar rollers, pummers were fun to make too, never got to make a leaper though.

  • @andrewwatts1997
    @andrewwatts1997 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You made me look up Ambulant XD Fascinating word.
    Very cool project, I used to research allot of beam robotics stuff, ended up with ANN bots which used opamp artificial neurons to sense light and play tones. This sure does take me back ;)

  • @AndersWeijnitz
    @AndersWeijnitz หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very cool! Love BEAM bots and this one even more. Very cool idea with the rhythmic addition. It is like the criiter has it's own "song" or noise signature.

  • @ocvuive
    @ocvuive หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @googleyoutubechannel8554
    @googleyoutubechannel8554 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've built a few of these that had a quadcopter format, hopping around the dessert. Give it a whirl, likely the 3 solenoids are heavier than quad motors / props you'd need to lift that thing anyway. BTW, the output on those little panels looks great, where can you get those?

    • @MichaelKrzyzaniak
      @MichaelKrzyzaniak  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I got them on Digikey; search for SM141K04LV

  • @mumblety
    @mumblety หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    YOOO!! BEAM BOTS!!!

  • @theroboticcraftr
    @theroboticcraftr หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do it bigger with stepper motors. Stepper motors can play music

  • @Rouverius
    @Rouverius หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very cool. What about a beambot with wheels that at the same time rubs a string as it moves.
    a drone drone, if you will 😎

    • @MichaelKrzyzaniak
      @MichaelKrzyzaniak  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah, like a Hurdy Gurdy! Now this is is the type of great idea I came here for!

  • @itzmrjerry7067
    @itzmrjerry7067 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you kinda look a sound like Badger from breaking bad

    • @MichaelKrzyzaniak
      @MichaelKrzyzaniak  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your mom apparently thought I look and sound hot

    • @itzmrjerry7067
      @itzmrjerry7067 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MichaelKrzyzaniak 😂 damm you hit me what the "your mom". wasn't to offend you btw, was a cool vid.

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