[SteveGarward]

Wildstang gets a lot of visitors in the pits at competitions, looking at our robot, seeing what we did, asking how we did things. This is great, but only for those at the same competitions!

This year, instead of trying to put some information down in words and pictures, I wanted to try something different and put together a series of videos detailing the design of different parts of the robot. So we gladly introduce our design videos: After The Game.

I managed to grab a couple of juniors and seniors who were heavily involved in the robot design and build (and who hadn't run away on summer vacation or off to college!), and talked through our robot design - what we did, how we did it, and what changed over the course of the season. But wait, there's more! Since this was all shot after the season (and our post season), I asked them to reflect on the season: what they thought worked and what didn't, and what they would do differently next time.

Hopefully the video format gives some more information than we could get across in text and pictures alone. The aim was to give a good closeup look at our robot design (just like talking to us in the pits), but also benefit from our thoughts once the season was over.

As we all prepare for next season, I hope this provides some inspiration to other teams to look closely and reflect on what they did this year and make lots of notes, so we can all hit the ground running for the 2013 season.

(Any feedback on the video format welcome, so we can make that better too.)

The Youtube playlist is here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...ature=view_all