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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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1 February 2003 - 5:50 pm
Joe Tucek and I were nearly killed by the red robot today when Aaron Beckerman initiated its "kill all humans" mode. Well, actually, he just mistakenly had it drive straight ahead at 1 m/s while Joe and I were sitting in its path about 8 feet from it, but my initial description sounded better. So the robot comes barreling at us (1 m/s is pretty fast) and slams into Joe, who is pushed into me. I couldn't reach the emergency stop buttons because they were blocked by a crudely built camera mount, so I tried punching the front of the robot. (If I trigger the touch sensors, the robot base will shut down and the robot will stop moving.) Joe, having a better angle than me, went for the stop button. We came out of everything with no injuries, but in the aftermath managed to initiate the robot's shutdown procedure. He deserved it though.
Posted by on 1 February 2003 at 5:50 PM
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