July 2026: Show Your Working
The maths core moves to Nx defn with analytical Jacobians, both IK solvers ride along, the balance bot starts rolling its wheels, and your robot now renders in 3D inside a terminal.
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Updates, tutorials, and insights from the Beam Bots project.
June 2026: Getting Our Bearings
The quiet core woke up loudly: a BB.Estimator behaviour, three AHRS filters, a BMI323 IMU driver and a URDF importer — plus a balance bot that finally knows which way is up, on real hardware and on screen.
May 2026: The Calm Before the Goat
Two Goatmire sessions confirmed, Nerves Starter Kit boards back from the fab, and Mauricio keeps shipping bb_tui while the rest of the org dozes through dependency bumps.
April 2026: Chocolate Eggs and Terminal UIs
Community members build a full TUI dashboard and debug a cobot driver on real hardware while I eat hot cross buns.
Week Fifteen: Ticks and Talks
Servo drivers get a 100Hz ETS-backed control loop and I give a talk at Code Camp Wellington.
Week Thirteen: Other People's Robots
The first community-built Beam Bots driver arrives with full uFactory xArm support, someone picks up the bb_policy proposal for learned behaviours, and Elixir 1.20 is knocking on the door.
Week Eleven: The Quiet Fortnight
Two quiet weeks while servo driver architecture gets reworked behind the scenes. Plus: Gus shows off the Nerves Starter Kit and gives Beam Bots a shoutout.
Week Nine: No Hardware Required
The SO-101 example app goes public with simulation mode, two gnarly servo bugs get squashed, and the dependency garden gets weeded.
Week Eight: New Digs
The Nerves community moves to their own Discord server, and Beam Bots follows.
Week Seven: Jido Enter Stage Left
A quieter week brings a new proposal for autonomous agents and goal-directed robot behaviour.