Same, BEAM was my gateway to electronics growing up.
replyReminds me of BIO bugs from when I was a kid
replyMark Tilden was the engineer behind this toy and many others like Robosapien.
replyHe has an interesting take on the laws of robotics:
reply1 - A robot must protect its existence at all costs.
2 - A robot must obtain and maintain access to its own power source.
3 - A robot must continually search for better power sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_robotics#Tilden's_laws
You should probably read that page? Tilden is repeating Asimov's 1942 laws in 1994. Not super interesting.
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