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.
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[APPLAUSE]
MILES: Thanks, everyone.