FRC Slideshow: Every Robot

[BJC]

Hey guys, I'm glad you like the idea, that's the first step to making it happen. Even though it's pretty late this year I really think we can pull it off. It would be a shame to miss the 20th anniversary year.

Other ideas I had but didn't put in the opening post:

-having 2 or 4 robots showing on the screen at the same time to decrease video length for part of the time.
-having the teams in number order with their number in a corner of the screen.
-highlighting the world champions at the end of the video.
-intermittently having video of robots actually playing (think less than 5 second increments)
-Having one of Dean's speeches in the background (Think hearing "and one day some of these kids might just change the world." then Bam! the World Champion Robots)

Of course, we'll need pictures first. I'm thinking that a large mix of types of pictures would be good. Some posed like on ship day, some in the pits with people working on them, some in action on the field, etc.

Originally Posted by Starke

This would be a cool addition to FRC Designs! This is a great idea that would showoff what FRC is all about. I would be willing to partner with you on this project in the future! Let me know what you think!

Matt

I love your website and I agree it would greatly increase content. I think once it was finished it would probably be published to CD so everyone has excess to it as a promotional tool. That said we could defiantly get all the pictures individually to you for FRC designs and probably also to TBA. Oh, and though I’m short to say partnership as that seems barring to others who might want to help, I’d love working with you.

Are any of you going to be at IRI? Perhaps we could further discuss the logistics of this down there during lunch or something?

[Tristan Lall]

How about breaking it up into tasks? One person volunteers to co-ordinate photos of all of the teams from a regional. They delegate people (maybe including themself) to photograph each robot in the pits. Another set of delegates (probably with media passes) photographs all of the teams from the regional at field level. Repeat everywhere.

Make sure to take high-quality colour images when possible—but none of that film stuff, unless the photographer also volunteers to scan the images in a timely fashion.

Then upload the image files to a central repository. (Maybe The Blue Alliance, maybe FIRSTWiki, maybe even Wikimedia Commons. Either way, be sure to list author information, date and location, plus some information about the image. And photographers need to explicitly release their images under some licence—this saves so many headaches later on, e.g. if FIRST wants to use your photo in a brochure, they know how to credit you. I strongly recommend CC-BY-SA 3.0.)

[Starke]

Originally Posted by BJC

I love your website and I agree it would greatly increase content. I think once it was finished it would probably be published to CD so everyone has excess to it as a promotional tool. That said we could defiantly get all the pictures individually to you for FRC designs and probably also to TBA. Oh, and though I’m short to say partnership as that seems barring to others who might want to help, I’d love working with you.

Are any of you going to be at IRI? Perhaps we could further discuss the logistics of this down there during lunch or something?

Bryan,

I am glad that we are on the same page with this. I will be at IRI with Team #1126 (SparX). Hopefully we will cross paths! I look forward to working with you!

Matt

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by BJC

Other ideas I had but didn't put in the opening post:

-Having one of Dean's speeches in the background

Hold on - I said with 2000 robots the video was 33 minutes long. You may need to include FLL and FTC robots to fill out the time.

[JesseK]

Bryan beat me to it -- a 33 minute slideshow is the perfect backdrop to one of Dean's speeches on Einstein.

We could possibly even take the 2,000 photos and make a gigantic photo mosaic

Or the slideshow could be part of the filler at events, in addition to or intertwined with the sponsor loop that gets really really old for people who sit in the stands.

I like it; I think it will take 1 person per Regional to get photos of the bots at the events.

Originally Posted by JesseK

I like it; I think it will take 1 person per Regional to get photos of the bots at the events.

Only one person per event? Personally, I think it'd be easier to have maybe 2 people per event, since about 60 robots per event is a lot to handle for one person, since most likely their team will need them a lot.

If you need photos of 256, we have them! I like this idea, and would like to contribute to it somehow.

[IKE]

I would agree that you should probably have 1 person "in charge" per event. If they want a couple helpers, that is up to them, but you should have 1 Point of Contact sending in all 60 pictures.

The Blue Alliance had tried something similar in the past. I believe they even had some scripts set up so that if you put a certain subject in the Email, and named the files with a common (FRC_TEAMNUMBER.jpg), then it would auto-populate when they ran the script.

I have pics for every team from Kettering.

[flyingcrayons]

its really not that difficult for one person to get pics of all the robots at an event. we had a student go around for the past couple of years taking pics of all the robots for scouting purposes and she had no problem with it. i liked IKE's idea above of having one person in charge, but if they want helpers thats their choice, and they can plan that out. im now an alumni of my team but im going to remain in contact with them over the next few years, so im sure i can get one of them to get pics of all the robots at the NJ regional (we go every year), as well as another regional should the team decide to go to two next year

this is a great idea, i really hope everything works out

[stundt1]

Another way to get pictures would be to talk to the guy who took pictures at the championships of all the robots and ask him for photos we will get a bunch from him probably I forgot the thread on CD.

[johnr]

Doesn't FiM request a picture of each robot in case you win an award so that they can put it on the slide show. First can do this much easier if they just ask for all teams to submit a picture or cad before teams bag or ship.

[Luckryan]

This sounds like a great idea... I think that there should be some kind of sheet for people to put down what regional they have or are going to do if this is happening next year. I personaly have almost all of OR and WA.

[ChuckDickerson]

What if FIRST just made it a requirement that every team has to upload a suitable robot photo along with it's Bill of Materials to TIMS by a certain deadline? Say 1 week after ship day. The photos could be printed in regional programs, used by the judges when evaluating teams, and put in the online FIRST team database to be used when scouting.

[stundt1]

Maybe we could get to out a paragraph in bills blog asking for teams to send a photo of there robot to a email?

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by DeepWater

What if FIRST just made it a requirement that every team has to upload a suitable robot photo along with it's Bill of Materials to TIMS by a certain deadline? Say 1 week after ship day. The photos could be printed in regional programs, used by the judges when evaluating teams, and put in the online FIRST team database to be used when scouting.

We're already supposed to be uploading our robot photos in TIMS...have been for years.
For the judges at events I presume. Now to get those photos out of FIRST HQ is another thing entirely.

[BJC]

After half a day of searching I've found:

1 2 16 20 21 25 27 33 40 51 53 56 63 66 67 68 70 74 94 123 201 216 217 226 244 245 247 280 288 302 314 359 440 469 494 503 515 519 548 573 610 703 815 818 830 862 894 903 910 1023 1188 1250 1243 1322 1502 1504 1528 1596 1684 1701 1718 1918 2048 2054 2075 2137 2246 2337 2586 2604 2612 2673 2676 2767 2832 2851 2959 2960 3069 3096 3098 3115 3234 3322 3414 3421 3534 3535 3536 3538 3539 3542 3547 3548 3568 3570 3601 3604 3605 3619 3620 3621 3632 3657 3688 3688 3770 3771

In total 108 robots, not too shabby, Most of these were taken from Dan Ernst's collections. If anyone has photos could you please direct me to them or put them on this thread? Thank you.

One more thing, try to use pictures in which the robot's numbers are visible on their bumpers.

Regards, Bryan