Best Robot Desktop Photos
 

I enjoy putting high resolution and high quality robots on my desktop (especially with a white background)!

My all-time favorite desktop photos are from the Cheesy Poofs, (Slipstream and Skyfire)


I don't have many high res photos for 2013 or for previous years, Are there any other great high res photos ones that have been posted this year ?

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I can't say this is the best, but we like it.
http://billbo911.smugmug.com/Hobbies...6kFG&lb=1&s=X3

Feel free to browse my Hobbies gallery. There are tons of photos on there from the last several years. You may use any photo you like, just let me know so I can see what you've used it for. Your best bet is to view it in it's "Original" size and save a copy from there.

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Thanks for the compliments!. We'll have a new one out next week. Stay tuned.

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254's robot photoshoots are second to none. Pure juice. Can't wait for the new one!

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It's not a full robot, but I have this as one of my background pictures.

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Not quite a white background, but here's one one of our robot.
http://www.frc3929.org/wp-content/up...2/DSC_2819.png

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One of my favorites: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...5c00baf9_l.jpg

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I've got this as a background on a school computer. I think it's fairly indicative of the standard I'd like to eventually reach: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...72b9883c_l.jpg

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This might be the best alliance ever.

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Here's a wallpaper I made of our Ultimate Ascent robot, Inferno.

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This is 1325's 2013 robot, no white background but its a high resolution picture and it looks awesome!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...4865d3c3_l.jpg

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This is a picture of 1325's 2013 robot!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...4865d3c3_l.jpg

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HUGE IMAGE ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

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I'm a little bit partial to this

Here's another nice one, but not high enough res.

And one more

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This has been my Nexus 7 wallpaper from the day I got it (only a couple months after I took it).

Edit: I'm using a much higher-res version of the same picture, that is. Too cheap to pay for cloud storage of all my highest-resolution photos!

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If I might ask, how do you guys set up your photoshoots? I'd imagine special / professional equipment involved? For example, what the background actually made of? (besides beautiful white nothingness)

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Here's the background I've been using since 2008 on my computers and phone:

http://www.simbotics.org/files/DSC_7275.JPG

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The backdrop is white seamless paper. It is about 8' wide and can be purchased at most photography stores. Otherwise we use qty 2 200watt/s studio strobes with umbrellas (bounced off of the inside, not soft lit) and some photoshop magic. Photoshop is only used to remove some of the gradients that appear in the white background and to fix any color cast in the polycarb, etc due to the ambient lighting.

Here is a picture of us setting up the backdrop, etc.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...61689910_n.jpg

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And occasionally to add wheels to the robot.

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Lol.. we had old wheels in the photo, but nice one.

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We got this action shot just a few days before bag day

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I have often wondered how you get the polycarb to look perfect - no flash reflection, etc. off of it. I guess it's a combination of pretty even lighting from the flashes, and some nice editing.

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Old Desktop image from 2010 with the alternate title "William Discovers Defense and Really Like It."

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What an epic robot that was.
One of my favorites for sure.

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Thanks for the info.
Looks like we will try something like this for next season.

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I like this photo of Daisy Bell.

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This was my background until recently:
http://baesystemssiliconvalleyfirst..../pictures/2082

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This one Drives the ladies crazy.

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Greatest robot ever.

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They don't have enough wheels.

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This is a background that was created by Aidan Solala '12 of team 610's 2011 robot.

A lot of team members use it for various backgrounds.

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It's not a full robot, but I thought this picture I took of a gearbox I made turned out pretty well.
The inspiration from 254 is obvious, even in how the picture was taken!

I would very much like to hear the story behind this...

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I've heard the Poofs machine their wheels late in the season....sometimes very late. Never heard the full story either though.

As far as pictures go - 2008 picture of RAWC is by far my favorite.

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I use two picture for pretty much all my backgrounds.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...daccb087_m.jpg

and

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...42199647_l.jpg

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So suddenly, and rather quickly, Simbot BA took over my desktop...

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This is currently my desktop background: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...4c3005d3_l.jpg

And this is my phone background: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...88b68c3d_l.jpg

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We have a large stockpile of wheels from previous seasons, so usually the exact dimensions and interface of wheel we want to use is available for testing/practicing. As such, we only need to manufacture the competition-legal ones just in time to compete, since they're pretty light and easily fit within the witholding allowance.

Karthik was pretty disgusted last year when I told him at a Week 3 regional we were both attending that we hadn't started manufacturing any wheels yet.

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I like that picture... Its a bit like "Simbot SS finally reaches the finish line."

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Here is my current background.

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Spent the night on this... http://i.imgur.com/XNSWYEY.jpg

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I would like to submit this image to the collection.

http://www.team696.org/history/robots/ratchet.jpg

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One of my favorites:

http://www.simbotics.org/media/photo...-regional/5055

There are quite a few nice shots on 118's website, but they're not high-res enough for a desktop. Great for a phone though!

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Here's a picture of our 2012 robot. It stands out pretty well against the sea of metal robots. :D
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7...6ad607d9_k.jpg


May 28, 2012 1100

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Awesome shot of our robot 'The PurpleMantis' at GTRW, https://picasaweb.google.com/1137377...31187239690546

photo credits go to Bill Holtby

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There goes our passive climber. #woodenrobotproblems
It does make a pretty nice wallpaper though.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8122/8...f9d4fe65_b.jpg

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I personally like this one:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7322/8...5682d065_o.jpg

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Needs more EJ

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Not really a robot photo but we have been using a larger version of this photo as are lab backgrounds.

So epic :D

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This is pretty much the official desktop picture for team 3309:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39058?

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The Legends! We almost look like we belong :P

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Since no one has posted this yet, OP delivers:D

Thank you 254 Teh Chezy Pofs

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I've been using this one since last year. It has 9 of the 11 DCPS teams that competed in FRC in 2012. I know so many of the kids in the picture, it reminds me of why I do this.
http://i.imgur.com/tmqu7sx.jpg

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Here is OUR personal favorite.



DOWNLOAD FULL SIZE HERE

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I'd like to send a huge thanks to 254 for making such beautiful robots, and taking such nice pictures of them.

I want to throw these out there for anybody else who uses three monitors (5760x1080)

These are the three that I threw together, and currently cycle for my background.
http://imgur.com/a/jiX2X

However, if you want to download and use them (At least on Win 7), you should grab these ones:
http://imgur.com/a/OyBvC
Windows 7 (Don't know about other versions) doesn't lay out multi-monitor backgrounds properly, because it always starts the image on your primary monitor, not the left-most monitor :P So this second set compensates for that.

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Not a white background, but still a nice picture of our robot this year.

http://i.imgur.com/wI6H3j3.jpg

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They're not exactly photographs, but I made these my junior and senior year. I use them as backgrounds on various devices to this day.

Cornelius Render Gallery

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i really like this one http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39010

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The expression on the Ref's face is priceless. :D

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This is my personal favorite one. Double stingers @ 2012 CT Regional. 118, 2791, 2168


And this is an awesome one after our rebuild. The Pheonix @ 2013 CT Regional.
I know there's a higher resolution version somewhere, I just don't have it apparently.

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Reported. (Not 2168's. The one before that)

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/38238 <-- Defintely comes to mind!

Anyways..

This is my favourite from the Kettering District. It was before we added our arm and "floor pickup". Our shooter was also mounted sideways. We were a bit tippy...

Also like this one from a demo we did. We had some time before our next group of kids came in, so I took advantage of the time and took some neat pictures. That was the best one.

I also got photo-happy with Apex at IRI.

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As the end of build gets near, take a high quality photo of your robot.
Robot Desktop Photos last forever !

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High resolution? How does 33 megapixels sound? https://www.dropbox.com/s/kv9y6jcnwk...4k%2016bit.png

If you're more into complete robots I have these (preseason drivebase and 2014 competition bot respectively):
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...26648744_o.jpg

https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/...27590005_o.jpg

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This image has been used for the Overdrive Wikipedia page for the past five years. It was not taken by our team.

Good times.

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My desktop is a photo of our 2013 Robot, the ultimate scent, shooting from inside the pyramid at the seattle regionals.

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Nice photo!

Anyone have high quality robot photos for 2014 ?

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My current desktop background is our 2014 bot, Flower:

http://i.imgur.com/tnWim5D.jpg