2015 Season Technical Photos

[Joe G.]

Fantastic work. I absolutely love these types of photos, so much can be learned from them.

Here are some other similar photosets.

I took a huge number of these at champs this year. My camerawork isn't anywhere near as good as yours, but I'll post them here when I finish sorting through them.

[ToddF]

Before we seal our competition bot in the bag, we take photos of the construction details. We do this so the final details on the practice bot, which usually lags behind, match the competition bot as much as possible. Here are the detailed pics of Genome Eta.

Because we continuously improve the robot through competition season, a fair number of these details are different now.

[Everett33]

Thank you for the reply's. If anybody has any close up photos from the pits at champs, I would love to see them.

[nixiebunny]

We just did a photo shoot of our robot and its parts last night for the Behind the Design book. It should be pretty good this year! We used laser-cut plywood. Unusual, yet amazingly effective.

[TheModMaster8]

Well i have a youtube channel for you! this person is amazing. Search " thang010146" in youtube and you'll find that he has a lot of mechanical manipulators there, also i would recommend watching all the "How It's Made" discovery channel series.

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by Everett33

Thank you for the reply's. If anybody has any close up photos from the pits at champs, I would love to see them.

I second this request.

[Joe G.]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

I second this request.

I finally found the time to sort through all of my photos. A 2,500+ photo album of this kind of thing will be uploaded in the next day or two.

[Joe G.]

My technical photos from St. Louis are being uploaded here right now. Some are available now, there are 2,537 in total. I'll be working on sorting and tagging them by team better in the future, but due to the unanticipated sheer size of the album, doing this fully is impractical.

The average photo quality on these is nothing special -- I have little/no experience with photography, and most were taken with an old point-and-shoot. About 600 at the end of the album were taken by two of my students, and are of much better quality.

Regardless, we're already pulling an incredible amount of information from these photos, and have made it a team objective to comprehensively cover future events we attend in a similar way, while improving our photography skills. Look for a lot more like this from 5400 in the future.