Yes, BEAM! It's been years since I thought of that. What a great point of entry into robotics and hardware design it was for a whole generation of engineers a

Yes, BEAM! It's been years since I thought of that. What a great point of entry into robotics and hardware design it was for a whole generation of engineers and roboticists. It provided a very low cost (it was encouraged that the parts for these robots came from old broken electronics. They were also super simple designs which were explained in great detail, very well. This combination made for a very good education in the foundations of robotics, engineering, mechatronics, hardware and system design, etc. BEAM, the Parallax Basic Stamp, the Tandy 1000RLX, and the RB5X robot and the summer classes I took with the makers the RB5X all had a huge impact on my ability to architect, design and build robots professionally.