About: fryguy

I just got back from the BattleBots event this past weekend. It was pretty fun, and I got to see a few good fights, but it was somewhat stressful to have to run the brackets for the 15lb robots. On the plus side, they allowed recording of the 15lb weight class, so I got a [...]

Over this weekend, Joe and I decided at the last minute to take the carcass of Emsee Frypants and fix it up enough to be able to compete at the Fifth annual Smackdown in Sactown event. We were going to be there anyways since I was running the brackets, and we wanted to bring the [...]

I don’t mean to keep posting funny videos, but check out this trailer for a Norweigan zombie movie. One question I have though is why do the zombies run so fast. I’m calling zombie bull on that!

I was checking my RSS feeds today and came across this article about swarm robots, with this video attached: It kind of reminds me of an episode of Numb3rs where Charlie uses swarm bots to map out a train to allow rescue of the passengers. I know that it’s well-meaning research and all, but I [...]

I know, I’m terrible at keeping up to date on these blog posts. What usually happens is there’s something I want to post but don’t want to take the time to do it right now and it gets permanently stuck in my queue of stuff to do. Then I want to post about something else [...]