This was up at the Salt Lake City Maker Fair. The team decided to take Hal up and have some fun showing him off. Turned out the kids really adored him.
Even when he chased them with his raised like a scorpion sting. They screamed in terror.
But it was gleeful terror.
They especially loved feeding him french fries and bouncy balls. "Bad Hal! You're already 15 Kilos over the competition weight limit!"
It was so much fun controlling Hal and playing with the kids though. I got to control this little puppet arm that controls Hal's arm and interact with the kids. His movements were so fluid it was easy to forget that we were the ones controlling him. It was almost like a "man behind the curtain" moment for some of the kids who realized it.
Robotics has such an interesting aspect that not only can they be so crazily advanced and complicated and hard to, but they can also be insanely fun. I've never seen a kid get so excited over any other high technology machine.
And Hal wasn't even built to make kids laugh. He was just built to bring packages to stranded astronauts and clean solar panels.
Anyways we'll be making and releasing a video of a day in the life of Hal sometime soon so keep your eye out for it!
This just makes me smile so big.
ReplyDeleteThere is so much love and adoration in this post, almost like a proud father. :)
Well...more like a proud 2nd cousin that just noticed his awesome relative...I haven't actually done anything to help build him, but I hope to do a lot this year!
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