I went to this and really enjoyed myself. Do you like enthusiastically interrogating teenagers about robots they've made? You should, it's really fun!

I also got to play a 3D printed violin, and meet a lady who had built a terrifying battlebot that was too vicious to be allowed in the arena at the event as it would have broken straight though the safety plexiglass.

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aaronbrethorst 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

meet a lady who had built a terrifying battlebot that was too vicious to be allowed in the arena at the event as it would have broken straight though the safety plexiglass.

I think we all deserve to see a video of this battlebot. It's been a tough week.

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simonw 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sadly I forget to take photos of that one! I got some pictures of the 3D printed violins though: https://gist.github.com/simonw/e5be5cbe96073c09a468307e4cb61...

Those are by https://www.neoluthy.com/

	▲	aaronbrethorst 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

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stavros 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have now made it my life's mission to compete in these events with my newest creation, suicidebomberbot.

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adolph 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Do you like enthusiastically interrogating teenagers about robots they've made?

Definitely one of the joys of being a FIRST robot league parent/volunteer.

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laidoffamazon 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I was there too and was looking for you! My friends all used your OpenSauce tool

	▲	geerlingguy 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Tool in question: https://tools.simonwillison.net/open-sauce-2025 There was also some map someone mentioned at one point, that was much better than the official map on https://app.opensauce.com (at least on mobile).