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Original Post: T-Shirt Hurling contest: day 1
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Oscar Salguero Guandique from El Salvador was the first finalist in this
years t-shirt hurling contest to
show his stuff. It was a belt-driven contraption with a big electic motor
at one end. It should have worked really well, but ended up somewhat
heartbreaking: just before the keynote started I went back to check on how
his tuning was going. As I walked up there was a very distinct
characteristic smell that anyone who works around electical stuff gets to
learn well: there was smoke billowing out of the motor housing that made
the situation clear. When he finally got to shooting shirts, there wasn't
a whole lot of oompf left in the motor. Noetheless, it was still a lot of
fun.
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