The highlight of BarCamp Austin III wasn’t the technical talks, or meeting cool people. The best part was during the demo of the battle bot.
In the back parking lot one of the BarCamp participants was demonstrating his battle robot when it lost control, took a chunk out of the concrete curbing, and then went wild and attacked the the air conditioner in the house next to GSD&M Idea City.
What really made it for me was that no one realized that it was out of control until the air conditioner went flying. I am sure there will be a YouTube video posted somewhere but for now here’s some pictures.
Here’s the chunk of curbing annihilated by the robot blades.
Battle bot owner runs to pull the power as it attacks a defenseless air conditioner.
The resulting carnage. [Note the severed 220 volt power line laying on the ground]
whurley helps push the battle bot back to the car before the cops come.
Ten seconds later Flickr gets flooded with footage of the aftermath.
The residents of the house were surprisingly unfazed after being attacked by a killer robot.
It’s not a party until something gets broken usually that means a plate or a glass but I guess a half ton air conditioning unit counts too.
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