LOL! 
But I completely agree with you. It is very hard to fill an event that runs two days for hours. Expos are full with people coming in and checking out the event and then leaving. I even can’t wait until the last match some days I’m tired and done watching robots.
It is a good idea and we can all definitely work on getting the stands fuller, but a full house might just be out of reach for a long long time.
if we could get them to come for the Einstein Finals… I’ve seen the 100’s and 200’s fill up on the Einstein side. hopefully this year, we can get the 300’s filled… that is if Security lets us
That is mostly because everyone comes to see that though! But it is true that we could get a ton of people in there for the finals for a couple of hours!
You might have a chance at getting people in for Einstein finals if you can keep the award ceremony stuff from dragging the energy down. For those that haven’t been there, the award ceremony is when all the speaking and FIRST messages happen.
That stuff is very good for the students that are involved but would just irritate uninvolved people that came to see robots play. Of the 2 hour Einstein finale there is maybe 20 minutes of actual robot play.
That’s the link to last night’s episode. Fully awesome!!!
It starts after the third white increment and timestamp 16:06 if you don’t want to sit through the whole show and it’s extra long web commercials.
If anyone can make a real lightsaber…its gotta be Dean and DEKA
lol, I’m two hours late to posting the link. But yes, visit the link Isaac501 posted.
It is a Dean specialty 
Haha yeah. I thought that was perfect. Now it was actually publicized on television. 
Here’s the link to only the interview portion of the show:
for us Canadians, Colbertnation won’t play in Canada, use the comedy network link instead: http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/showdetails.aspx?sid=3351
Apparently this wasn’t his first time on the show
im watching it now =D S.C. is so funny
I really enjoyed the section of the show. Dean Kamen has once again come through with something truly incredible with this arm. I also gotta love the shout out to FIRST in there, but he didn’t talk about it as much as I thought he would. Great segment. Hopefully FRC and other FIRST events continue to gain exposure, so that soon enough I won’t have to be explaining to most people who ask that we don’t build “Battle Bots”
I am an engineer for Kaydon, a manufacturer of specialty “thin section” bearings. This morning I got a call from one of the engineers at DEKA. Apparently the Luke arm uses our bearings, and he wanted to spec out a modified version for the next generation of the arm. It is very gratifying to play even a small role in something as cool as this.
Many years ago I worked on some bearings for Dave Lavery’s “other car”.
What do you mean “don’t want to sit through the whole show”? The Colbert Report rocks!
That man could pick up a grape AND use chopsticks. Dean is amazing, denim and all! Also, he presented himself so well, this was a great outlet to spread the word about FIRST and robotics. Good Job Dean, and Colbert for that matter, high five!
It was an awesome interview. I have to say, CHOPSTICKS i was in aw. It was hilarious when Dean was talking and the arm twitches and he looked at the arm nervously. It reminded me a little bit of the guy from Spiderman with the robotics arms.
~DK
OK – time to ask the obligatory engineering question! How the heck was he controlling that thing???
He had a series of objects strung across his back (one would think battery and cRio ), but where are the fine motor control input devices? And for a double version of this arm, wow… How is the wearer to control that?
That, to me, was the neatest part of the interview! The “how the … is he doing this” part!