2002 UTC New England Regional video

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I believe one of our team members with a Sony Mavica took a ton of video (useless to us at the time other than for scouting purposes) but now of historical value that I can try to obtain if anyone wants to host them.

I have several hundred gigabytes of unused hosting space, along with several terabytes per month of bandwidth at my disposal.

One of my long term goals has been to digitize and get lots of Team 228's archived materials up onto our website. Photos were easy, I already have several thousand up there. But as for video, it's been much harder to track those down.

[TD78]

They're only of my team and our finals alliance, but I have all the qualification and elimination matches. I'll see about getting them to Kyle to host on the 121 video website.

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

To this day, that robot which our scouts dubbed "The Popcorn Popper" because of the sound it made as it collected all of the balls in the line in less than 1 second, still sets the standard for roller pickup mechanisms. It still makes my top 10 list for the best robots ever created.

Hahaha! That's exactly what we called it too! When I started up 1712 in 2006, we looked to existing designs to help us out. When it came to collecting balls, we went right to the archives to learn about Grasshopper 2002 and even paid homage on the robot: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/22970

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton

The 2002 UTC regional was probably the best event in my team's history. It was a shame that most of my video is lost though. I know team 177 had archived the matches on their luxo lamp imac at the event, but I'm sure its long gone by now.

That iMac is still kicking around our shop and we still use it for video editing from time to time. All the timelapse video we released were recorded on it.

However, I don't think it has the videos on it anymore. It's tight for disk space all the time, and I'm pretty sure it's been cleaned off several times since.

[Rich Kressly]

bonus points to the first one to correctly identify the announcer for the event ... 1.2.3...go!