Like a lot of companies out there, our support and compliance teams have some pretty epic Nerf gun battles. And they have no mercy. They’ll even shoot at CEOs (gasp!). When we flew our awesome AR Drone project through the office, what did they do? They shot it down with extreme prejudice. So, for some reason, I thought it would be a great idea to commission the guys at TheBiggerDesign to build a Robotic Double Vulcan Nerf Gun Turret for our support team:
As you can see from the video, there’s even a fun “Death Blossom” mode.
What’s really cool about this thing is it can be controlled remotely, through the web. So once we get it all wired up, we plan to allow our customers to shoot us.
Wait, why did I do this again?
This just gives me more of a reason to find a new day job! Awesome!
This is pretty awesome. Sounds like an amazing team to be apart of. I guess I will get my chance to play along when I get the controls. Keep up the great work guys.
Laffs! You’ve really outdone yourselves this time.
LOVE this!!!
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! looking forward to shooting at Bobby!!! He’s AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
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totally. badical.
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The last two companies I’ve worked for (Intronis, Fusionapps) have had occasional nerf battles.
I proudly defend the design department a modified Nerf Maverick (look up ‘penny mod’). I shoot at our dev team when they start calling us the ‘artsies’.
Thanks for posting this!
Fail at 02:45..
Awesome toy though!!
So that’s what you got the Nvidia Tesla Supercomputer for – fire control!
Great job @thebiggerdesign and MailChimp. I really enjoyed watching this project unfold. What’s next?
Wheels please! Wheelsss!
It has wheels! Also, a cup holder for your favorite beverage.
So we will be able to take it everywhere in MC Offices and shoot WHOEVER we want right from our browsers?
Just kidding…
Awesome. You guys rock.
Should lead to much awesome chimp video.
You guys are so much fun. You know how to play while getting work done. Just one of the many reasons I love MailChimp so much. You rock!!!
This is awesome!!! I can haz job here?
I’m a developer and as you guys probably know, at times there is a lot of stress. What better way to relieve it than with something like this! I bought a USB missile launcher and took it into work only to be told that it’s “unprofessional and unsafe” and that is is “counter productive”. Our management style sucks.
I MUST work for you guys!!
Have fun!!
That little USB missile launcher was actually part of the inspiration for this. We got a few of those (from ThinkGeek IIRC) for our support team to shoot each other, but we always thought it’d be cool to really “go big.”
Complete awesomeness. Can’t wait.
Im so excited to shoot people with nerf darts from china…. this is awesome!
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