American Robot Season 2 Episode 1!

[Rick]

Hello everyone and welcome to the second season of American Robot! Every Wednesday during build season our team, Team 121 the RhodeWarriors, will be releasing a 10 minute video showcasing our efforts to design and build our robot. This year we have 6 different ways of watching the episodes:

Downloads:
(Save Target As)
High Resolution ~111mb / .mov
Medium Resolution ~56mb / .mov
Low Resolution ~22mb / .mov
WMV Version ~134mb / .wmv
Ipod Optimized ~64mb / .mp4
YouTube Version

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[chris31]

You have a very nice work space. I wish we had something that large. The video turned out very nice.

[JamesBrown]

Awesome once again Rick (and every one else) looks like you guys are making some decent progress.

Looking forward to the next one,

-James

[AV_guy007]

it was great, I love how many FIRST related series there are popping up. FIRSTcast, nerd vision, The Blue Alliance(w00t ) and now this.

BTW, what video editing software are you using? FCP? the titles in the beginning looked very nice. livetype? or dare a say Motion?

i <3 motion

the time lapses are also a nice touch. I made a few last year and more are on the way!
100th post yay!

[Greg Marra]

That's really awesome guys! I'm glad to see more people publishing video content about FIRST and their teams. Getting to see week-by-week how your team progresses will be a lot of fun, and might help give newer teams some insight to the FIRST build process.

I would recommend you guys use external microphones. Even computer microphones, held by the person on camera will improve the audio quality and make them sound clearer. Do some test shoots perhaps and see how it works out.

Really great work!

[AV_guy007]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

I would recommend you guys use external microphones. Even computer microphones, held by the person on camera will improve the audio quality and make them sound clearer. Do some test shoots perhaps and see how it works out

yes i agree, external mics are really nice to have and can be done rather inexpensively. for example the mics used for the blue alliance kickoff were xlr mics that I had because i am a musician. once run through the correct adapters you can get a very nice quality sound. so if you know anybody who is a musician
ask if you can barrow theirs or buy some they come in many differnt prices and many are not very expensive.

for anyone who's curios the mics used for TBA kickoff event were: a shure SM57 and an AKG D88 S they cost about $100 and $40 respectively.

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by AV_guy007

it was great, I love how many FIRST related series there are popping up. FIRSTcast, nerd vision, The Blue Alliance(w00t ) and now this.

BTW, what video editing software are you using? FCP? the titles in the beginning looked very nice. livetype? or dare a say Motion?

i <3 motion

the time lapses are also a nice touch. I made a few last year and more are on the way!
100th post yay!

Actually, American Robot was an inspiring force for the first episodes of FIRSTcast, as they came first and really pioneered FIRST-based shows.

Once again, American Robot gives a great showing, with an awesome episode, highlighting what the RhodeWarriors are up to this season.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

Actually, American Robot was an inspiring force for the first episodes of FIRSTcast, as they came first and really pioneered FIRST-based shows.

Once again, American Robot gives a great showing, with an awesome episode, highlighting what the RhodeWarriors are up to this season.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. We threw the idea around back in late '04 within the URI Robotics Club. I think it was the first web show that had to deal with FIRST. I never thought it would get as popular as it did. But college kicked in, my wisdom teeth came out, and we realized that a robot had to built. So the season ended short. That year I was the primary creator of each episode. Now I have a team of people that are helping to make this happen.

PS: High res is still having problems. Should have it up tomorrow.

[AV_guy007]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

Actually, American Robot was an inspiring force for the first episodes of FIRSTcast, as they came first and really pioneered FIRST-based shows.

Once again, American Robot gives a great showing, with an awesome episode, highlighting what the RhodeWarriors are up to this season.

o, i did not realize that. I knew that there was a original season of American robot, as a matter a fact I believe I have seen a Few episodes but i didint know it inspired FIRSTcast. that very interesting. I love all these shows and i am gald I am a part of them

[astephen68]

Nice video!!!!!

[Andy Grady]

Great job guys! A show worth watching every week, really gives insight into what life is like with the ol' Rhode Warriors!

Keep it up!

[TD78]

Thanks guys for all the comments! It certainly takes a lot of hard work and effort to produce these weekly episodes. We're certainly excited in sharing our ideas and methodology; turns out that the first season of American Robot was the inspiration behind several robot designs back in 2005. Hopefully the episodes from this year are just as inspirational!

*** as a hint, you may want to pay attention to all of the songs we use in this and future episodes...they're all connected in a certain way...

[K.Porter]

Very cool video.

What was that clip that you showed briefly (playing on a TV)? Was that a former FIRST challenge?

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by K.Porter

Very cool video.

What was that clip that you showed briefly (playing on a TV)? Was that a former FIRST challenge?

That was from 1997, the other year FIRST used inner tubes

[K.Porter]

Ah, okay, thanks.

I knew that they had used tubes before, but I didn't know what the game actually looked like.
Do you have a digitized version of the video that you could post? It would be great to see!

Thanks.