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From: altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu (Karl Altenburg)
Subject: Re: JUNKBOTS
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Rob Muylwyk (rob.muylwyk@canrem.com) wrote:
: A year or so ago I read an article in the Toronto Globe & Mail about a 
: person who was into "junkbots". Apparently he had written an article in 
: a magazine such as Scientific American, about these things, which were 
: very cheap robots made from cast-off tape cassette players and the like.

: Does anybody know the proper reference to this article, so that I can 
: get it from the library, or does anybody have any other information on 


I think you are referring to Mark Tilden and to BEAM robotics.  There is a
message concerning this years International BEAM Robot Olympics and
another message from a person selling intoductory kits for building
a common BEAM robot -- the solar roller; both have been posted to the newgroup
within the last week or so.

The Scientific American Article is:

Dewdney, A.K.
Photovores: intelligent robots are constructed from castoffs.
Scientific American Sept 1992, v267, n3, p42(1)


Another OK reference is:

Maylon, John.  At the Robot Olympics.  Whole Earth Review. Spring 1992,
pp 80-84.

There is a BEAM robotics guide that is avaiable through the BEAM organizers
(see the above mentioned message posted to the newsgroup.)

--
Karl R Altenburg				altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND  58105

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.  SIR THOMAS BROWNE
