MINIBALL SOLAR HAMSTERBOT
Hours of fun sans batteries.
Written by Jérôme Demers
Damien Scogin
WHEN I STARTED IN BEAM ROBOTICS IN THE LATE ‘90S, the most popular robots were the rolling ones — solarrollers, photovores, symets, and the original miniball. The miniball was relatively unpopular because, unlike other BEAM bots, its “guts” were hidden under the solarcell and you couldn’t see how it worked. It moved by shifting its internal center of mass, which was mechanically complex to pull off.
The idea of building a miniball roller inside a transparent ...
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