BEAM spider bots face off

Here are a couple of BEAM spider bots that I built to give to my dad and uncle for fathers day. The solar cell charges a capacitor to a certain voltage and then triggers a pager motor to jiggle it around a bit. BEAM stands for Biology, Aesthetics, Engineering and Mechanics. Check out Solarbotics.net for more info on BEAM.

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Howto & Style

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• BEAM
• robots
• electronics
• bot
• solar

[hellspark]

cool design, but it looks like they just sort of skitter around, like a pager placed on a table. do they have any directional control?

[purkolator]

Nope.  They skitter.

[BRBSIE2]

YOU WASTED 17 SECONDS OF MY LIFE

[purkolator]

Really now, who is wasting time here....

[purkolator]

These little guys consist of a solar engine powered by a small solar panel (the rectangle on their backs). When the engine powers up a capacitor to the right threshold, a small pager vibrator motor is triggered which makes them move.

[losthaze]

now just imagine the star trek battle theme playing in the background...

[dinmagic]

These bots are really easy to built, I believe that anyone can built them. Really cool tho.

[allegolle]

Homemade! Think i saw this guy on telvevision in long time ago :)

[jf8943pkg]

Now THAT is what I call an epic battle!

[GoldenButterscoch]

awesome.

[Roquetroque]

jajajaj! q wapo

[DonHoraldo]

who isn't

[boots670]

i am...

[bobble242]

New to the beam critters and wanted to know if this was a scratch or a kit. Point me in the right direction...I need a spider! XD