OBLIVION Drone Day at SXSW (Part 1/3): Harlem Swarm
BRIAN A. ANDERSON: Hey. It's Brian with Motherboard. I'm here at the Raptor House
in beautiful Austin, Texas. It's a little rainy out today,
but that's not going to stop the Drone Games, which is a
programming challenge that I like to think of as sort
of an aerial stunt off. So folks bring in their small
quadracopters and do all sorts of insane shit. CHRIS SANZ: I'm the organizer
of Drone Games. Today, we did the
second one ever. The first one was in San
Francisco, and today, we had about six participants
doing drone demos. CHRIS ANDERSON: Crazy, out
of the box innovation. BRIAN A. ANDERSON: We are the
hackers who are trying to automate a lot of these drones,
doing hand gestures or being able to orchestrate
multiple drones to do things. [APPLAUSE] MILES: We can either go for
something really technical that may not work, or we can
come up with a whole idea and accomplish that, and then be
able to tweet at the drone through a node server and
then make it dance to the Harlem Shake.
I was like, let's do that. MALE SPEAKER: Yeah,
yeah, yeah. CHRIS ANDERSON: So we think
this is just sort of a laboratory for what ultimately
drones can become someday out there. MALE SPEAKER: Culture
Award, Chicago Crew. You brought it, executed
flawlessly, no big deal. We hand it to you. MILES: Our goal was to
get it done today. We had the right path going
for it, so I think we were feeling pretty confident. So this is Austin over here,
Keith, my name is Miles. We run an interactive company
out of Chicago called Eyes and Ears.
And I need some participation
from somebody, somebody who is willing to tweet from
their phone. What I'm going to have you
do is tweet [INAUDIBLE] this message. Do you want to read
what that says? MALE SPEAKER: Do the
Harlem Shake. [MUSIC PLAYING] [APPLAUSE] MILES: Thanks, everyone..
