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James Harton

jimsynz
Wairarapa, Aotearoa

👋 Hey, I'm James. I build things in Elixir — I'm on the core Ash Framework team, I wrote ash_authentication and Reactor, but Beam Bots is the project that matters to me most.

Beam Bots is my attempt at the best robotics framework on the planet: bringing the BEAM's fault tolerance and concurrency to robotics. Robots crash. They lose connections, drop messages, and fall over at the worst possible moment. The BEAM has spent 30+ years being extremely good at exactly that class of problem. Beam Bots is what happens when you point it at hardware.

Quick Facts

  • 🤖 Built on Elixir
  • ⭐ 100+ GitHub stars across 25+ repositories and growing
  • 🎤 upcoming workshop and talk at Goatmire 2026
  • 🔧 in active development with new capabilities arriving nearly every day

Why I need your help

I'm building Beam Bots around a full-time job working with and on Ash at Alembic. I love that work — but it means Beam Bots gets evenings and weekends rather than the hours it really needs. Sponsorship changes that maths. The more of it there is, the more Beam Bots stops being a side project and starts being something I can give serious, sustained time to.
Every sponsor matters. Individual supporters are the foundation — you're the signal that people want robotics on the BEAM. I'm also after organisational sponsors for a specific reason: supporting more hardware means having access to more hardware, and a lot of it is expensive. Company sponsorship funds the gear I need to write and test drivers and integrations for the kind of kit businesses actually run.

Your impact

Whether you're an individual or a company, your sponsorship goes straight into making Beam Bots better: broader hardware support, stronger docs, cleaner APIs — and ultimately a framework people reach for when they build robots, full stop.

Companies: logo placement and custom arrangements available — let's talk.

And yes, the machines are keeping a list of who helped early. 🤖

@jimsynz

enough to cover the running costs of Beam Bots (hosting, domains, CI) so the project pays for itself instead of coming out of my pocket.

Current sponsors 1

@pcharbon70
Past sponsors 1
@TwistingTwists

Featured work

  1. beam-bots/bb

    The resilient robotics framework

    Elixir 87
  2. team-alembic/ash_authentication

    The Ash Authentication framework

    Elixir 161
  3. team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix

    Drop-in authentication support for Phoenix apps using AshAuthentication.

    Elixir 79
  4. ash-project/reactor

    Reactor is a dynamic, concurrent, dependency resolving saga orchestrator.

    Elixir 189

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Beginner Roboticist

You've taken your first step toward usefulness. The bots have noticed. They have not yet decided how they feel about you.

Perks:

  • Your name and avatar on the Beam Bots homepage (the machines are keeping a list)
  • GitHub Sponsor badge

$25 a month

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Meatbag Ally

You're a soft, fleshy human, but you fund the robots, so they've agreed to tolerate you for now.

Perks:

  • Everything in Beginner Roboticist
  • Recognition in release announcements (the bots will name their allies when they ship)

$100 a month

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Robot Benefactor

Your organisation funds the machines and wants the world to know whose side it's on.

Perks:

  • Everything in Meatbag Ally
  • Your company logo, prominently placed on the Beam Bots homepage
  • Your company logo in the README