[Robotgroup] BTW: I'm on YouTube! (kinda)

[Robert Carter]

Before I got sidetracked by Brooks' email about the flaming tools and  
all, I was about to email the group to say that the Ping Pong Printer  
is on YouTube again, posted by a non-robot group member this time.  
Someone shot some video footage at Plutopia and put it online. I'm  
visible in the background, you can't see my face but you hear my  
voice as I'm plugging the gizmo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAzSkrle9Qo

Did y'all already know about this? I discovered this today when I was  
directing a friend to the video for the Ping Pong Printer, talking  
about its amazing surge in popularity. She clicked on the first link  
that came up, and asked, "is this it?", and I looked and said, "no,  
that's, hey wait a minute, that's me!" Amusing. Only a mere 16 views,  
though, so clearly not as spectacular as the video that Vern posted.

A lot of people wanted to know if they could get their name or a  
special message printed on a ball.  They were disappointed to learn  
that we can only do one or two messages with the current  
configuration. There's a good bit of popular interest in custom- 
printed ping pong balls, for what it's worth. Maybe in a future  
revision?

Robert Carter
Visual Resources Collection
School of Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin
rcarter at ischool.utexas.edu