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370: William Osman

Cool Tools

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The Future of Combat Robotics

There will be 150 exhibitors at OpenSauce, including YouTubers like Mark Rober and Michael Reeves. Adam Savage is going to do a talk on Sunday at the event. So, there's really big space. We were talking about 600 feet by 200 feet. It's kind of like a blank, empty. There's a lot of pillars causing me pain. But I love that stuff.

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Speaker 2
So, there's really big space. We were talking about 600 feet by 200 feet. It's kind of like a blank, empty.
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's mostly empty. There's a lot of pillars causing me pain. But the idea is you're going
Speaker 2
to fill it with
Speaker 1
people who have booths or tables. There's 150 exhibitors. So, there's people bringing projects ranging from this lady who's made a giant Furby costume. That's sort of like just cool and maker-y but not super engineering. It's kind of, it's like making stuff. It's all kind of the same. But I love that stuff. Then there's some YouTube channels that are exhibiting. One is a quint build who has this knife throwing machine that he built. I think I could say, Arc Attack is going to be there, which is like musical Tesla coils. They have a 30 foot coil, but we can't fit it in the building because it would touch well, it wouldn't touch the ceiling, but it would arc to the ceiling. Battlebots is going to be there. So, there's going to be like 20 battlebots maybe? Are you setting up a
Speaker 2
battle competition? So, not
Speaker 1
for battlebots, but for combat robotics. So, there will be an organization. I got yelled at for sharing their name. I think there'll be three weeks you said. So, I think I can say their name now. NHRL is an East Coast robot combatically. They're trying to turn combat robotics a small scale into an East sport. It's really good. Really entertaining, really accessible to battlebots. It can be crazy expensive. So, that's a little bit. It's cool to see the battlebots because they're like 250 pounds. But for general combat robotics, I think NHRL is like the most successful. So, there'll be a competition there at OpenSauce, run by NHRL. There'll be a main stage with YouTubers like Mark Rober, Michael Reeves. We have a special guest. Adam Savage is going to do a talk on Sunday at the event. So, I haven't said that publicly. I kind of like surprises. But I'm really grateful that he was willing to do that. And I don't know. It's hard to describe, but it's just going to be that thing where you have friends who make things and you like hanging out with each other and showing each other the weird crap you built. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I know.

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