🎙 Paloma Fautley, Robotics Engineer // Hackster Café

Interviews

Paloma Fautley is a seasoned roboticist and BattleBots competitor, who has lent her expertise to Xerox PARC and multiple seagoing robots. She has also planned and led educational curricula, as well as the UCSC IEEE student branch – including a "hack-y-thon" aimed at embracing failure. Watch Paloma's chat with Hackster Café host Alex Glow, and learn how to dare greatly!

Links:
// Paloma on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/palomafautley
// "How to Build a Terrible Robot" – Paloma's talk at North Bay Python '19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1SRm-H9M7I
// Official HiJinx BattleBots page: https://battlebots.com/robot/hijinx-wcvii
// HiJinx on BattleBots Fandom wiki: https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/HiJinx
// @offbeatrobotics on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@offbeatrobotics/videos
// "Steel for BattleBots" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3kWQf4E1hU
// Mammoth post-fight hardware breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGak7fGdDMo
// Saildrone: https://www.saildrone.com
// Sofar Ocean: https://www.sofarocean.com
// Monocoque chassis design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocoque
// "How to Build an Antweight Combat Robot": https://www.wikihow.com/Build-an-Antweight-Combat-Robot
// VESC electronic speed controllers: https://vesc-project.com
// Xerox PARC ocean drifters (Ocean of Things): https://www.parc.com/technologies/ocean-of-things-pearl-ocean-drifters
// Hebocon (terrible combat robots competition): https://spectrum.ieee.org/hebocon-the-best-worst-robot-competition