1114 and 2056 Release Videos?

[akoscielski3]

A few of the reasons we don't, have already been mentioned but I'll explain a bit more.

It's not really the competitive advantage, is more time, resources and knowledge.

We spend all of our time practicing, programming, and reiterating or robot. There's is no down time during this time of the season. We need to spend as much time as possible using our competition robot before it's bagged. While on 772 we started making release videos and it always took hours to record footage.

We never finish our robot. I've never felt like we are done the robot anymore, it's constant improvements, so it's hard to record a finished robot when we're never actually finished.

I'm sure most people think we have a huge team, but we really don't. Last year we had a larger than normal team, 25 students signed up. And of that not everyone comes and works all the time. During this time most people are doing important work, like programming, driving, reiterating.

We don't have anyone skilled in this area, or anyone showing interest in it. I know I asked about it when I first joined the team, and I was told no body on the team shows any interest in that type of thing. So we're not going to force a student to spend hours and hours making a video that they don't want to make.

I completely get it, I used to hope and hope for a video from 1114 and 2056, but now I understand why they/we don't make one.

We try and help out and inspire as many teams and students as possible. Which is why we release all of our CAD, programming, tutorials, presentations and more. Tour videos would be a good idea, but we already kind of do this type of thing with our engineering note book, it's just not made in video form. You can also look at our prototyping videos we recently uploaded to our YouTube channel to see what happens throughout the season on our team.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

We never finish our robot. I've never felt like we are done the robot anymore, it's constant improvements, so it's hard to record a finished robot when we're never actually finished.

This is so true. I only felt like our robot last year was close to done at IRI, even then there was plenty of room for improvement. Each day of the build season is very precious, and it shows just how effectively 1114 uses their time when they come out of the gate so strong each year while many other top teams play catch-up throughout the competition timeframe.

However, I have to qualify this by saying the reveal videos are fun to be able to show off your creation in a cool way. I enjoyed staying up late to make them, but I imagine it's tough when no one is interested.

[jkelleyrtp]

I don't know about you guys but I enjoy most release videos because of the snazzy music. Something about 118 dropping stacks and "Up Up and Away" in the background just gets me really pumped for the competition season.