Timeline developing construction set.
Jason Huggins introduce constriction set in year 2011. He was inspired by Grid Beam system, which he scaled it down to sizes compatible with LEGO® Technic. Constriction set use 10-32 screws or M4 screws.
Later Jason published small OpenSCAD library for design new pieces, but he stopped with other improvement.
Next set developer was teacher from Polička Tomáš Feltl. He extend base pieces with lot of special boxes for Arduino boards or other electronic sensors. Next to STL models, he published models for LEGO® design programs. So it was possible to create user guides to build models from this construction set. He add letter m before construction set name for differentiation from original concept.
From this time, constriction set m-BITBEAM is distributed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, to better financing and project protecting.
Ondřej Tůma create bitbeam-lib library for OpenSCAD. It contains a few base modules for pieces designing for Bitbeam or m-BITBEAM.
From 2019 Ondřej Tůma works on Git library, which contains pieces sources. It uses bitbeam-lib. First set contains only 12 pieces, and on end of year it contains 30 pieces.
From 2020 is in distribution process of pieces library part for generating online catalog, which contains separated pieces sorted in categories. Pieces have own images and simple description.
There was Egg Bot published on Printables.com. Egg Bot was first free model, build from pieces from OpenSCAD library.
The year 2011 was breakthrough year for construction set. It was extended by many other pieces. At the end of year, there was 196 pieces without pins, shafts or other pieces, which can be used in construction set.
Usual joining element in construction set are screws. Even if Tomáš Feltl design pins, they didn't work well. The new ones can be printed and works good enough. Other support type pieces are shafts.
Huge additional for construction set is track chains system. They have many sizes as like as wheels for chains.
Next to other pieces, construction set are extended with omniwheel which can be fulled 3D printed. Small exception is small tubes, which can be used as bearing in flexible rolls.
Last huge extension in this year was gear wheels with different sizes as well as inner gear wheels which can be printed as parts.
E-Shop GeekZoo.cz be launched for selling the construction set.
In 2024, the name of construction set was changed to original name Bitbeam. From this year it was lunched web on domain bitbeam.cc as support and community web.
Construction set was extended with rails with model size 0.