After the Mark Zuckerberg incident, the number two story last weekend was the battlebot that ran amok at BarCampAustin III. For those of you who sent me notes saying that you’re glad I wasn’t hurt, that is not me in the video, but none other than Josh Holmes of Microsoft. Apparently, the battlebot was unaware of Josh’s advocacy of open source.
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All went well save one small incident involving a 340lbs BattleBot malfunctioning and then taking off as fast as it could for the closet Microsoft employees. Thankfully no one was hurt or injured and they were amazingly good sports afterwards:
Many thanks to the folks at Viewzi.tv for the amazing editing job. And, yes we still love Brady and TeamDX! Good luck in the new season on ESPN guys!
March 17th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
And that, boys and girls, is why you can’t forget to set up your failsafe positions on your radio gear — and why for something this big and dangerous, you make sure you get radio gear with failsafes (generally either PCM or spread spectrum.)