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340lb BattleBot Malfunctions Nearly Kills Microsoft Employee watch!

talk.bmc.com — So this weekend BarCampAustin3 (held during SxSW) featured a ton of amazing things including some fantastic sessions, a mini iPhoneDevCamp, and a singing Unicorn at Karaoke Apocalypse. 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.

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  • Emused, on 03/12/2008, -4/+51Powered by Linux.
    • czeman, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5So it WASN'T a malfunction!!! :)
    • neil1492, on 03/13/2008, -4/+4Nope...it runs Vista...the drivers for the stop function weren't compatible yet.
  • Jesus19k, on 03/12/2008, -4/+22Why, What would YOU do to the closest microsoft employee?

    Building a battlebot and going for it seems like the best plan to me.
    • padrebuf, on 03/12/2008, -9/+6i think it was a closet microsoft employee
    • sockpuppets, on 03/12/2008, -1/+9I'd sell him my yahoo shares.
  • amuse, on 03/12/2008, -1/+12At the start of the video you can hear the tail end of my statement that I was going to stand up on the platform as I had seen the 'bad robot' before and I was worried about the thing going out of control. Here are my pics:

    http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bad%20robot&w=9350 ...
  • pauldy, on 03/12/2008, -0/+13I think that AC unit just made some coment about that bots moma being a snowblower or something. Whose the boss now chump.
  • DiggLive, on 03/12/2008, -2/+15I can hear them saying, "Damn, our plan almost worked!"
  • shainemata, on 03/12/2008, -9/+1Another point of view of the robot attack. http://www.shainemata.net/2008/03/12/barcamp-austi ...
    • Phocion55, on 03/12/2008, -0/+5Is that your cellphone # at the top of your irrelevant blogspam?
  • jmpeagle, on 03/12/2008, -1/+8it begins
  • dparsons62, on 03/12/2008, -2/+3The air conditioner wants a re-match fight at BarCamp Austin IV.
  • brocklese, on 03/12/2008, -1/+5skynet?

    oh and aparently battlebots is comming to ESPN I did not know that!
    http://www.battlebots.com/news_home.asp#espn
  • tylercomp, on 03/12/2008, -12/+2I THINK THE MALFUNCTION WAS SELF AWARENESS!!!!!!!!! lololololol ROFL
  • dparsons62, on 03/12/2008, -1/+4"Closed source target acquired! Execute termination sequence."
  • Enderplayer1, on 03/12/2008, -0/+3The box is locked the lights are on it's Microsoft fighting time!
  • Pureeviljester, on 03/12/2008, -0/+7wow took a piece of that curb with it.
  • Renian, on 03/12/2008, -6/+5Well of course it malfunctioned. It was running Vista.
  • TehMuff1nM4n, on 03/12/2008, -4/+0Headline for the event:

    You thought Halo was cool? Wait 'til you see this!
  • schavira, on 03/12/2008, -0/+3In other news BattleBots still exists.
  • brutimus, on 03/12/2008, -1/+3I think that was far from "Nearly Kills".
  • scabbers, on 03/12/2008, -0/+4You have fifteen seconds to comply.
  • sfrench, on 03/12/2008, -0/+4"340lb BattleBot" .... shame! Just cause you don't like Steve Balmer doesn't mean you have to resort to calling names.
  • pokemonfan4eva, on 03/12/2008, -0/+3Battle Bot- 1 AC- 0
  • inferno10, on 03/12/2008, -0/+5I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!
  • smurf22, on 03/12/2008, -3/+1 "340lb BattleBot Malfunctions Nearly Kills Microsoft Employee" It didn't nearly kill him, it barely scratched him. Burried as inaccurate sensationalism.
  • blackrage, on 03/12/2008, -0/+2I dugg this story before I even watched the video. The title alone made me laugh.
    • blackrage, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Update...the video was a bit of a let down. But I'll let the digg stand for ***** up that smug air conditioner.
  • Impeller, on 03/12/2008, -0/+1Holy crap! That fat man's lucky he's walking... even after the ***** on his pants...
  • TitaniumLizzard, on 03/12/2008, -0/+2msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/
  • KaiSe7eN, on 03/12/2008, -1/+2That was lame...I wanted to see someones legs get shredded.
  • haqattaq, on 03/12/2008, -2/+2Ok. This is lame.
  • czeman, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Poetic justice if it was powered by Microsoft. :)
  • chubbybubba, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3If it was an Applebot it would have Killed everyone in the crowd with both Grace and Style. (but it would cost 4 times more.)
  • BiggRanger, on 03/13/2008, -0/+0I think it was heading for the Steve Balmer looking guy. Perhaps it thought it was taking out ChairThrowerBot's creator. By the way it looks like it wasted that air conditioning unit!
  • mstachiw, on 03/13/2008, -1/+2that guy almost seen his blue screen of death.

    microsoft=crashing
  • Paulish, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1No worries, Microsoft employees are all too familiar with such errors.
  • calebjenkins, on 03/13/2008, -0/+0I think that it was *really* going after that metal AC unit... then it said, "and STAY DOWN!" what?!
  • Andrewbot, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Incase anyone was wondering robot fighting competitions are still taking place around the country (non-televised).

    Check buildersdb.com and botleague.net to find events near you.
  • crossers, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0good. I think the plan works!
    http://www.ocflex.com/
    http://www.trgovinca.org
    http://www.chasr.org/
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