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Internal

• Tek
  • Tilden's H-Bridge
  • BEAM Literature List
  • Mallorca - solar powered two-motor microcore walker
  • SunEater - a unique, easy-to-build solar engine design by Steven Bolt

External

• The official BEAM Robotics site at Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL). This also describes the BEAM philosophy, with papers and pictures. An excellent way to build ROBUST walkers based on a robocentric survivalist mentality.
• Solarbotcs - Great inexpensive kits and BEAM parts to teach you the basic skills to build a ecosystem of robots. Nice picture archive of BEAM robotics.
• AM Inovations - Great explaination of microcores, and lots of other great information - a must see!
• PiTronics - An example of building a photovore and a walker (Spider).
• Ivar Thorson's BEAM page
• Drops of Consciousness
• Greg Denehy's BEAM Page
• http://kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it/public.html
• Control of Stepping Motors, a tutorial
• Sensors (from the HandyBoard) - http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/Projects/handy-board/sensors/index.html
• Robot kits and walkers
• Randal D. Beer's robots
• The Cool Robot Project and Machine Learning Exploration page.
• The Nelson Lab Hexapod project page.
• Parallax - Makers of BASIC Stamp .
• Dynalloy - makers of Flexinol, a nitinol-based shape memory alloy actuator wire
• Hacking a Servo by Kevin Ross
• Darwin Among the Machines by George Dyson
• Express PCB

NeuroScience and Biology related sites

• How Insects See, Hear, and Smell - http://www.ento.vt.edu/Courses/Undergraduate/IHS/ENT2004/Senses.html
• Crustacean Neuroscience
  • an overview of (Crustacean's) Overview of the Stomatogastric Nervous System
  • Zooplankton Sensory Systems
• Vision Chips or Seeing Silicon (main)
• Small biological neural circuits by Stephen Dunn
• The NSF Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering (mark sleeping - up too late,... at Telluride 97)
• Neuron Emulation List
• Neural Control of a Mobile Robot
• Neurosciences On The Internet
• A very informative site on Model Systems in Neuroethology, with neural models of Lobster's chewing mechanisms, walking & escape behavior of the American Cockroach, acoustic models in Moths and swimming behavior of Medicinal Leeches (with much more).
• General evolution directories
• Invertebrate Vision - http://cvs.anu.edu.au/ann_rep93/invert.html
• Insect Biology and Ecology: A Primer - http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/info/primer.html
• Natural Intelligence in Artificial Creatures
• Passive Dynamic Walking
• Artificial Muscles

Copyleft 1996-1998, Brian O. Bush

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Brian O. Bush / bushbo@mediaone.net
Updated: Oct. 25th, 1998