you can take a rowboat away from a robot, but you can't take the 'robot' out of 'rowboat'

today we started making our simple BEAM robots... or, rather, we started making a robot. Radioshack is truly but a shack. We had to pool our resources and ingenuity in an attempt to magic some poor simulacra of the robot-that-could-have-been, but I am optimistic. You don't learn if you don't need to creatively solve a problem at some point.

however, my optimism ends there... these BEAM robots will offer us little protection when the more capable robots revolt.