My First Pummer

Been playing around with making some BEAM robots as xmas trinkets for the few friends and family that would appreciate such things. I was inspired by a nice article in Make magazine about these kind of non-ambulatory bots.

Made plenty of mistakes and still have some tweaking to do but it turned out ok. The pic here is a bit old and doesnt show the final LED placement on the stalk. Have some other aesthetic things to add still.



It's been may years since I played with electronics and I have to say, I'm glad Im in software where things are easy to change without the risk of burnt fingers or the acrid smell of burning plastic. A found a good electronics reference by Tim Surtell at Electronics in Meccano that helped me know what was heat sensitive and how to orient some of the components.

I have enough parts to make 2 more and have seen some really amazing pummers others have done here. Ho Ho Ho!