# Wednesday, March 12, 2008
340lbs Open Source BattleBot Malfunctions Nearly Maiming Microsoft...

I have been at MIX and SxSW the last two weeks. Or rather, I used SxSW as an excuse to come down for Whurley and Giavonni's BarcampAustin. It was amazing - I've never seen a barcamp done that well. Austin, the city,  declared the day BarCamp day. It was cool.

I did have a near death experience though and the guys at Viewzi.tv caught it all on film...

From Whurley

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!

Modern day bullfighting???

340lbs Open Source BattleBot Malfunctions Nearly Maiming Microsoft... — TalkBMC


Tangent
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:47:53 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [7] 
« MIX Day 1 Keynote Ray Ozz... | Main | Organizing A Conference l... »
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:14:12 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Glad you're still with us Josh. I noticed you didn't spill a drop of your "drink," nice reflexes.
Justin Kohnen
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:05:36 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Glad you made it out unscathed (barely). I noticed it took out a huge chunk of that curb and totally destroyed that air conditioner! Caress your shins and be thankful you still have them below your knees. :) That was a close one!
Luc
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:25:35 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Nice dodge - when RIAs go awry there isn't as much physical danger - hopefully you are safe from here on out.
Bruce
Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:18:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Hmmm... lets all start drinking and stand around watching this killer 340 lb robot created for the single purpose of destroying things made of metal and lexan. What could possibly go wrong? I guess we know that my WiFi network is not the only wireless device that sometimes has communications issues. Glad to see that you lived to tell the story.
Joe Brinkman
Friday, March 14, 2008 1:35:30 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Wooo, that was close - good job! You remembered the 5 rules of Dodgeball
1. Dodge
2. Dive
3. Duck
4. Dip
5. Dodge
Rich Weston
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:32:00 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
7yG8It hi good site thx http://peace.com
bob
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:08:36 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Hey Josh, I just put "Holmes" into the Google blog search (sorry for the reference to your competition) and you came up as the #1 entry.
Jeremy
Comments are closed.