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Post Robot Competition Updates

by Joey on May 7, 2010

Well the BotsIQ competition came and went in a blazing two days. While that wrapped up most of the filming for the documentary (with a few post-competition interviews left) there’s still a long road ahead in first sorting all the footage, and then editing it all. As I go through stuff I’ll be posting more clips.

In the meantime here’s a cool shot Sir Cam-a-bot (more info coming soon) caught inside the arena. Witch Doctor was a beast.

(I post lots of updates on the Facebook Page, which trickles down to Twitter. Keep updated there)

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The Calm Before the Battle

April 13, 2010

Just finished lighting the arena. I’ve been helping build it since Saturday. It’s a beast. I’ve also found myself living on the roof of the arena for the past few days too. I think I might have been a cat in another life, hoping from beam to beam. Early registration starts tomorrow. Then more registration. [...]

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Colbert on the End of Space Travel

April 12, 2010

Here’s a clip from Colbert’s piece on Obama announcing the end of the Constellation program, the thing that was supposed to take us back to the moon. You know, that place that we managed to go to 40 years ago before iPads or cellphones or the internet. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / [...]

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Featured Kickstarter Project of the Day

April 8, 2010

Exciting news – the other day Bots High was the featured Kickstarter Project of the Day! About a week left to go – please help out and donate today!

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Robot Building – Time Lapse Montage

April 5, 2010
Timelapse Montage

Robot Building Time – Time Lapse Montage from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. For the past few weeks I’ve been filming time lapse shots of teams building their robots. I set the camera to take one picture every second and when you play it back you get a lot of time condensed. It’s cool to watch [...]

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137 Years of Popular Science for Free!

March 30, 2010

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Starbot – Kids Who Build Robots Concept Poster

March 25, 2010

Above is a poster idea I had for Starbot, the not-for-profit robot workshop that sort of serves as the unifying hub of all the robotics programs in South Florida. It’s inspired by a pep-talk Nola (head of Startbot and BotsIQ) gives to all the robotics classes, which is there’s 6 billion people in the world, [...]

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Twitter’s 4.005th Birthday and a Cool Video

March 23, 2010

Twitter celebrated its 4th birthday this past Sunday (March 21). Look at the first Tweet here. Summer of 2008 I was able to interview Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter. I’m sure today he wouldn’t have time to sit down with some college kids in the Twitter HQ, so I was lucky I [...]

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Help Fund Bots High – The Robotics Documentary

March 17, 2010

Bots High – Robotics Documentary – Teaser Trailer from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. We’re about 4 weeks away from the grand finale – the National High School BattleBots Championship. So far I’ve mostly been filming everything myself, but this time I’m bringing in more crew, more cameras, more epicness – to do things right and [...]

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