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		<title>Battlebots, and projector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smackdown in Sactown V</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombies, Oh my!</title>
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I don&#8217;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&#8217;m calling zombie bull on that!
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		<link>http://www.burntpopcorn.net/74/zombies-oh-my/</link>
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		<title>Robot swarms and you&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s well-meaning research and all, but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burntpopcorn.net/71/robot-swarms-and-you/</link>
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		<title>Catchup post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I&#8217;m terrible at keeping up to date on these blog posts. What usually happens is there&#8217;s something I want to post but don&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defconbot video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend Joe and I made a video showcasing the sentry gun we made for defcon. See the defcon bot on the right side, or read the digg story
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		<link>http://www.burntpopcorn.net/65/real-life-tfc-sentry-gun-created-video/</link>
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		<title>Back from DefCon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got back from DefCon last weekend. Our Sentry Gun didn&#8217;t do very well (tied for last place), but the trip was a lot of fun overall. We knew before we went that we weren&#8217;t going to win, so coming in to it with that mindset made it a lot more enjoyable.

The robot was mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Robogames</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We made it back from RoboGames. We lost both fights with Big Bloom. The first fight was against Billy Bob, a vertical drum spinner, which took a bunch of big chunks out of our frame, however it seemed to hold up pretty well since it&#8217;s half-inch thick, and the chunks were only a sixth of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burntpopcorn.net/63/back-from-robogames/</link>
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		<title>Updated video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another little video after we put it the components on a &#8216;frame&#8217; and got some decent motors for it. There&#8217;s no mixing on the remote (so up-down controls one motor, left-right controls the other), so it&#8217;s really hard to drive. This is also filmed on Joe&#8217;s awesome camera he got for his graduation present, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.burntpopcorn.net/60/updated-video/</link>
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		<title>Overdue Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since my last update, and I figure I should post something. Hopefully updates will be more regular. I&#8217;ve had a few things I wanted to post on my blog, but I didn&#8217;t want to do it without posting a more comprehensive update, and didn&#8217;t really want to post a comprehensive [...]]]></description>
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