
jstarne1
USA
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We have been disussing setting up a booth area to show off our robots and also have a small airsoft robot arena to battle in So far we have Bret , myself and Alequa my brother coming. I made this thread so we are not discussing things off topic on others. Here is trossens arena for ideas but we can make ours different.
You don't realise the size of a robot until you see it next to a person.
That sucks about Jarvis' arm, hope it wasn't too badly damaged.
First i want to say thankyou for Rex coming and bringing his robot. Wow we finally tore down the exhibit and are back at the hotel. This Makerfaire was absolutely insane. Elbow to elbow and easily over 2000 people in there at the same time. Our booth was regularly surrounded by 10-15 people checking out robots , asking questions about how and where they can get a Ezrobot ezb. If I had a nickel for every time we were asked how they can buy their own ezb and make their first robot we would have a lot of nickels! Seriously though people were getting flyers from the 3d printer booth and writing info down on the back if them. I wish we had flyers to give out. Can I get a amen Rex!?
Anyways it was fun. We didnt get to demonstrate as much as we wanted because there were several other exhibits involving high voltage , Jacobs ladders, giant ARC generators , static generators etc. Everyone with a wireless connection, even a cellphone, kept loosing connection. One moment my camera would be working but not Bluetooth and then Rex Bluetooth worked but not the camera. I scanned for WiFi and Bluetooth devices and there were dozens. Believe it or not spectators pulled the airsoft robots arms off 6 times and Jarvis arms off 4 times. I couldn't believe some of these people just yanking things off! The cameras worked most the time if they were about a foot away from the laptop. So I left ARC up and let the spectators see themselves as the robots see them. I had one 19 inch monitor by Jarvis on one end of the booth and the air soft robots on the other side by the laptop. In between was Rex with his robot and laptop.
@rich , its all good I "mocked up" the arms because I knew they had to come back off to be packed for the trip home. They were hot glued to the hubs on the servo shoulder gearbox. He actually would have wider shoulders because.of the brackets I have to increase range of motion.
It definitely looked like a big crowd there! A glimpse of Josh and Jarvis. Great job guys!
This is so fantastic Josh and Rex! Bummer about people abusing the bots. I can't believe that. I so wish I had been there. Next time.
Thanks so much Josh for including us in the Makerfaire as best you could...Jarvis looked "cherry" . perhaps if you had his arms "electrified"with a big capacitor people might have been a bit more respectful! Next time hang a sign around his neck warning people of high voltages! keep the piks coming!
Josh JARVIS looks very good,you almost look like my brother he a little bigger,did you ever play semi pro football like him looks like you would be good as a linebacker. Keep the the photos comming they look great