The BEAM walker, defiantly one of the strengths of BEAM robotics, simple, robust and impressive. If anywhere this is where BEAM has made the greatest impact on the robotics community. With that said I really should put more of them up here.

Build Date: Jan 7, 2002

This is one of the first projects I build at home with the BEP boards. Initially the frame was built in August of 2000 but I held off on the project until the BEP boards were in production. This is a typical 5 motor walker configuration using 6 imbedded bicores. This walker will reverse as well as turn simply by shifting the phase angle between the front and back motors. The board out in front controls the "heartbeat" this synchronizes the two sides of the walker.

My first and to date, only solar powered walker. The funny thing is I had built a crude Miller engine nearly a year before I learned what the Miller engine was, nothing new under the sun eh?

This uses two infamous Nihon lens gearmotors, these are really good gearmotors for walkers and the like. The legs are made from welding wire and the frame is built from steel welding rod.