American Robot Episode 2

[Rick]

Hey Everyone!

It's wednesday and that means a new episode of American Robot. Last week due to the overwhelming views, our first site exceeded its bandwith. This week we have multpile mirrors to lesson the load. Again I want to thank everyone for all the support so far. The sound in this episode is superb. The video is a little lower quality though. By week 3 we will have both sound and video up to par. This week's episode entitled "Time to Finalize" is 14 minutes long and aobut 2/3 the size of the last low resolution episode and the high resolution is almost half the size of the last one. Please enjoy this episode and again we would like to hear ANY and all comments or questions about this.

Low Res (63.2 MB):
(SAVE TARGET AS)
Mirror 1: http://www.fragsouth.com/AmericanRob...E02_lowres.wmv
Mirror 2: http://americanrobot.team195.com/Epi...E02_lowres.wmv
Mirror 3: http://tomschindler.net/rhode_warrio...E02_lowres.wmv
Mirror 4: http://www.classicserver.net/AR/AR_S01_E02_lowres.wmv
Mirror 5: http://www.rctparadox.net/americanro...E02_lowres.wmv
Mirror 6: http://nutrons.dbrl.net/american_ro..._E02_lowres.wmv

High Res (141 MB):
(SAVE TARGET AS)
Mirror 1: http://nutrons.dbrl.net/american_rob...02_highres.wmv
Mirror 2: http://tomschindler.net/rhode_warrio...02_highres.wmv
Mirror 3: http://www.fragsouth.com/AmericanRob...02_highres.wmv
Mirror 4: http://americanrobot.team195.com/Ep..._E02_highres.wmv

If anyone else would like to host please let me know so I can update links accordingly.

[Tom Schindler]

I just wanted to compliment Rick on his insane audio editing. If you listen closely in the middle, when "carry on my wayward son" starts playing... it's obviously a digitally inserted copy. But midway through the song it transitions to it actually playing on the boom box... then it transfers back to the digital version...

Superb editing job!

Tom

[sanddrag]

Rick and Rob,
Please disregard my PMs about FTP. I'm uploading it right now. It'll be there in a half hour and I'll edit this post with the link.

Download here too http://www.classicserver.net/AR/AR_S01_E02_lowres.wmv

[Kyle Fenton]

One thing I would like to emphasize to all of you is please download the movie to your hard drive. This will save on bandwidth, and allow more people to enjoy it.

To download onto your hard just right-click on one of the three links and go to "save-target as" for a wintel or "Download Linked files As..." for a Mac.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

I believe "That" is the concept of your ball collection mechanism from 2002. Up the side of the robot into the wooden slat basket.

[BoyWithCape195]

Originally Posted by Ogre

I believe "That" is the concept of your ball collection mechanism from 2002. Up the side of the robot into the wooden slat basket.

I agree on that answer too. You can see the bot to the left of the field that came out of that (if it is what i believe it is)

[tkwetzel]

No high res ...oh well...I know you were having bandwidth issues. I think that you should make a season long video, high-res that you can send out via CD..I would pay a nominal price (to cover making and shipping the CD) for a nice video that compiles the American Robot series. If you find that you have more than enough bandwidth now, it would be nice to get a high-res version of week 2. Thanks for the excellent video.

[Sscamatt]

Rick is at work now, I will try and get a hold of the high res version when he gets back and put it on my server.

[Rob]

Originally Posted by tkwetzel

I think that you should make a season long video, high-res that you can send out via CD..I would pay a nominal price (to cover making and shipping the CD) for a nice video that compiles the American Robot series.

We were thinking about making the CD available at nationals, and maybe including a blooper reel. We might ask for a donation to the team, but those of you who are poor could just cover the cost of the CD. Ask Rick for more details on this.

Rob

[Joe Menassa]

Originally Posted by tkwetzel

No high res ...oh well...I know you were having bandwidth issues. I think that you should make a season long video, high-res that you can send out via CD..I would pay a nominal price (to cover making and shipping the CD) for a nice video that compiles the American Robot series. If you find that you have more than enough bandwidth now, it would be nice to get a high-res version of week 2. Thanks for the excellent video.

I would not be surprised if this happens. A DVD is already on the drawing board. Maybe even some bloopers, extended scenes, and commentary.

Also... We have something else in the works... possibly some help from the URI SFA... I will not define that just yet... but things are looking good.

Enjoy

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Ogre

I believe "That" is the concept of your ball collection mechanism from 2002. Up the side of the robot into the wooden slat basket.

Grrr.. You beat me to it. The only team to have a sewing machine in their pit that year.

[Kevin Kosinski]

How nice it is to see the exciting things happening at building two, especially when im up here in far away Worcester (1.5hour drive). That video is amazing, really shows what the team is all about, happy to see all the students working in this video, because I fully understand how much they really do help out. Hope i can stop by and see it/help out sometime soon. nice editing, and anxiously awaiting a high res copy.

[Karthik]

Kudos on a great piece of work. You've done a fantastic job of capturing the atmosphere of a FIRST build season. I'm quite impressed. Plus, I love all the footage of your illustrious '97 and '98 robots. Keep the good stuff coming.

[MikeDubreuil]

This is a great episode. 121 is really being brave by sharing their entire build season with us. Thanks guys

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by Ogre

I believe "That" is the concept of your ball collection mechanism from 2002. Up the side of the robot into the wooden slat basket.

Ogre knows of what he speaks. I believe he was driving for 173 (195 and 88 were alliance partners) in the 2002 New England Regional Finals against the eventual Champs 121, 69, and 103.
Here are some pictures from 103's perspective:
http://www.cybersonics.org/cybersoni...tos/UTC02a.htm

I've got match video of the entire finals from SOAP if anyone is interested.

121 was awesome that year and had a sewing machine in the pit (Edit - Elgin beat me on this tidbit /Edit)

Here's a great view of that machine. Notice the hotel room door 121 sign on the robot and the hole our team put in the fabric accidentally during the finals (thank god the ball mechanism wasn't running at the time)
http://www.cybersonics.org/cybersoni...2/DSC00158.jpg