Team 766 Robot *On-board* Video

[octothorpe]

Okay, a new week, a new bandwidth allotment. Here are the last five robocam videos from Davis:

http://www.vimeo.com/user:160412/clips

For reference, the new videos are matches 43, 48, 54, and 63 of the qualifiers, and match 4-1 of the quarterfinals. Teams featured by number: 115, 295, 675, 692, 973, 1072, 1280, 1351, 1359, 1458, 1560, 1671, 1678, 2035, 2063, 2073, 2085, 2189. This list is in addition to the list in my initial post – several teams make appearances in both sets of videos. You can find the videos with your team's robot by doing a search for your team number, since all the clips have been tagged.

Good luck to all the teams competing at Championships – I wish Team 766 could go and take more videos of all the action. Also, I want to congratulate all the rookie teams at Davis this year. It's been great to see so many of you out there, and performing (by and large) very well.

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by octothorpe

Okay, a new week, a new bandwidth allotment.

Hey if you need some space and bandwidth PM me. I have a website that I am building that is off line so my bandwidth is going to waste

[Qbranch]

Here's an idea... why not have FIRST issue each team a wireless video camera (802.11 or other network to allow multiple cameras) thats required to be on the robot, so that during the match the TV people can put robot-eye-view up on the main monitor or on the webcast .... something like NASCAR?

"Aaand here's the in-car video from the blue alliance.... "....

-q

[1359th Scalawag]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Here's an idea... why not have FIRST issue each team a wireless video camera (802.11 or other network to allow multiple cameras) thats required to be on the robot, so that during the match the TV people can put robot-eye-view up on the main monitor or on the webcast .... something like NASCAR?

"Aaand here's the in-car video from the blue alliance.... "....

-q

That's a really cool idea! It would be nice to see it happen someday.

About match 43, really close match. I didn't notice your alliance's technical problems before. You can see, right before your robot's gripper breaks and you drop the tube, our robot stops turning properly. Later in the match, you can see our robot somehow limping closer to the ramp. It was a very close match and I'm looking forward to eventually seeing it more clearly in the official videos.

[Zyik]

Watch 48, 973 doesnt move, reason: the rampbot deployed before letting us out. Therefore, we got stuck under it. In our attempts to get away we moved the ramp out of the home zone, netting us a penalty that tied the match. WE don't know if that was the exact penatly or if the rampbot caused it by landing on us. Either way, that match should have been a win. Instead, we ended up with a damaged robot. Very annoying.

Great video though!

[octothorpe]

Originally Posted by 1359th Scalawag

That's a really cool idea! It would be nice to see it happen someday.

Yeah, it is a cool idea, but that'd probably be another $200 going into the KOP cost. And unless you made it mandatory, most teams probably wouldn't bother, so it'd be about as useful as the $200 compressor is to all the non-pneumatic-using teams.

Scalawags, match 43 was definitely a close match, but we were defeated fair and square (can't say quite the same for our first quarterfinal...). I didn't notice your mechanical problems either, which is the flaw of the robocam videos – you can only really focus on whatever the robot is pointed towards.

Zyik, I'd forgotten how your robot got pinned by 1678, that's really tough luck. The match 48 summary's been updated to reflect that, so that people won't wonder where your robot is... At least we netted a tie instead of a loss, but that certainly is frustrating.

[1359th Scalawag]

The thing I would like about a roboCam would be that we could make a really great video with it. You guys could make a video with all the times you scored set up one after another. It would be a pretty impressive video to show to your sponsors!

[octothorpe]

Yeah, with some decent editing you could definitely make a memorable video. Last year the official 766 student videographer expressed interest in this kind of footage, but lately he's been too busy to do much related to multimedia any more. Perhaps if I have spare time over the summer I can try to cobble some sort of clip-compilation video together – it would certainly be a good PR tool. Thanks for the idea.