Hey be80be, you're right, BEAMs are a lot of fun and almost anyone can build them, of course they'll not clean your room or cook for you but i see it as a geat hobby.
I was browsing some sites a while ago and like 70% of the links are broken of heavily outdated, and The official BEAM Robotics site at Los Alamos National Laboratories --> NONEXISTENT this really has to be a bad sign.
Chiu-Yuan site died on '99 and has a lot of great info.
I don't know if the BEAM wiki is dead or not
and so on...
Maybe solarbotics is where the action is now...
oh sure I found it... last updated on september 2003
But really, BEAMbotics instead of growing is slowly decaying as I'm realizing, too sad.
It would be great if you could share some links with us be80be, thanks!
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