Jesus Zen Droïd
Polypolar maker and sort-of artist, founder of the hackerspace engrenage in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Loves fluid- and thermodynamics, but spends quite a fair amount of time trying to figure out why the Universe is not quite working as it's supposed to (this includes computers) ; in doing so he learns to master all sort of skills (language design, electronics, welding, carpentry, machining, sleeping, etc.) because he feels that otherwise his brain-antenna might implode or something. Can barely touch a touch without pimping it one way or another.
Session
This talk will take you into a journey leading to the retrofit of a robotic tape library to enable it to accomodate hard drives in addition to the original media, from the reasons we did it to all the obstacles that needed to be overcome and how we did all that, pushing a little further the physical limits that make data storage increasingly problematic in a world where over 200TB is generated every second and must sometimes be retained for years (and possibly more).