FIRST: America's Funniest Home videos

[Jaine Perotti]

Has something really funny ever happened to your team/robot during a match that got on videotape?? i.e. robot went haywire and crashed into the ref?? (btw I've seen this happen...must have been radio interference) If so, wouldn't it be a good way to give FIRST publicity on national television by sending in your funny robot video to AFHV?? It would have to be funny enough to appeal to a general audience who may not understand the subtleties of robot antics...but it may be worth a shot. Plus it could be a good fundraiser for your team if you ended up winning any money. Feel free to share your thoughts on this (as well as sharing some of your humerous experiences)...

[Astronouth7303]

When Robots Attack

[David Kelly]

Ooooooooooooooo, I've got a hilarious video of the "ankle biter" going after Amanda Morrison on my computer at home. I'm going to have to find it and put it online when I get home from 'work'!!

[David Kelly]

Originally Posted by David Kelly

Ooooooooooooooo, I've got a hilarious video of the "ankle biter" going after Amanda Morrison on my computer at home. I'm going to have to find it and put it online when I get home from 'work'!!

I found the video. This robot is referred to as the "Ankle Biter" because... as you can see, "biting" Amanda's ankle. Enjoy

The video is 4.7 megs

[Billfred]

Wasn't Ankle Biter a battlebot?

Either way, that is a funny movie.

[Dorienne]

Originally Posted by BurningQuestion

Has something really funny ever happened to your team/robot during a match that got on videotape?? i.e. robot went haywire and crashed into the ref?? (btw I've seen this happen...must have been radio interference) If so, wouldn't it be a good way to give FIRST publicity on national television by sending in your funny robot video to AFHV?? It would have to be funny enough to appeal to a general audience who may not understand the subtleties of robot antics...but it may be worth a shot. Plus it could be a good fundraiser for your team if you ended up winning any money. Feel free to share your thoughts on this (as well as sharing some of your humerous experiences)...

This would really be a great idea. When I was a freshman, the guys loved to tease me. So, one day, when the robot was done and we were visiting Lockheed Martin, we brought the robot and the programmer (who despised me) drove it around. Well, you can probably guess what happened. He chased me around with the robot! It was terrible..he actually rammed it into me a couple of times. It was funny to the guys, but horrible for me. He nipped my ankles and legs quite a few times.
If only they had a camera and they could actually have sent that in...oy. The humility for me..but hey, it'd still be fun publicity for FIRST. =)
--Dori

[spears312]

well I don't have video of something funny happening, but I do have video of two things combined are kinda funny. When we were building the robot we were joking about the robot falling from the bar and how our set up made it literally impossible. Apparently it turned out it wasn't impossible, a little editing made a bad event kinda funny

[Jaine Perotti]

actually, I just remembered a funny experience that happened to us at IRI. I wasn't able to actually see this, but I heard that in one of our last matches, we flipped over and were driving back and forth on our back wheels...apparently it was pretty funny to watch...I wish I had been able to go to IRI!!! I am not sure if we got this on tape though...maybe someone from 571 did??

[Solace]

sorry, we only had 3 people there. didn't exactly have an extra set of hands. all i know was that the robot flipped over on the other side of the field, and by the time we came over to flip you back up you were right in front of our ball chute.

[Jaine Perotti]

Originally Posted by Solace

sorry, we only had 3 people there. didn't exactly have an extra set of hands. all i know was that the robot flipped over on the other side of the field, and by the time we came over to flip you back up you were right in front of our ball chute.

Thats ok...I talked to sarah the other night and she said that she wasn't sure if we got it on tape, but she said she would ask about it. We didn't have many people there either so it is unlikely. Oh well....

[mohrr]

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~mohrr...obot_MPEG4.avi

It's actually a compilation of several disjointed segments of video, but it start with the bloopers.