Bots High Short Bits

Below are the podcasts, or Short Bits, for Bots High, which feature clips and information about the film or science and technology in general. You can watch them here, or subscribe via iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, or blip.tv.

New Epilogue Video Update

August 15, 2011

I’m working on the epilogue for the new DVD release and took a brake to show the bizarre, close proximity I am to what I’m editing.

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Robot Battle Vid – Grasshopper vs Witch Doctor in Slow Motion

March 21, 2011

This has been online for a few weeks, I just forgot to post it on the blog (which is why you should like Bots High on Facebook, because there’s where I post everything first). It’s from the 2011 BattleBots IQ tournament, which happened last month. 120 lb. open division – last year’s champ Witch Doctor [...]

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New Bots High Trailer – Robotics Documentary

March 10, 2011

Check out the brand new trailer for Bots High, the documentary that follows high school kids battle it out with epic robots. I’m going to call this the official trailer, so please post it around! Vimeo Version

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Starbot – Miami’s Robotics HQ

January 27, 2011

Students Make Awesome Things at Starbot in Miami!

Starbot is pretty much the nerve center of robotics in South Florida. It’s a center that focuses on enabling high schoolers to create whatever they can imagine. Though it’s usually robots, I’ve seen student work on go-karts, R/C cars, art projects, and even a camera dolly (ok, that was me during some down time). An [...]

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Girls in Robotics

January 12, 2011

One of the biggest elements in Bots High is featuring girls build robots and involved in fields that statistically you don’t usually see them in – science and engineering. Two of the three featured teams are all-girls teams (My Mechanical Romance and Mechanical Misfits), and girls play important roles on the other teams as well. [...]

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How a Robot Battle Works

December 10, 2010

This little sequence above has turned into one of my favorite parts of the film. When I got to Texas for sound designing, they said “We have an idea,” and suggested adding an announcer to this sequence. Coincidentally, the head of the sound studio is also a voice actor and has one of these epic [...]

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Robot Battle Montage – Nerd’s Football Game

December 1, 2010

Here’s a clip straight from the film – robot battle montage from the beginning at Mayhem in Miami. Bonus points if you can guess what Alain is saying.

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Robot Battle Video – Witch Doctor vs Fuchsia Fusion

November 5, 2010

Check out the latest Short Bit above, featuring a short but awesome battle between college robots Witch Doctor and Fuchsia Fusion (which was a former Carrollton robot that competed against Teenager in 2009). I’m setting a goal of releasing a new video every Tuesday, creatively titled Bots High Tuesday. But I’ll be posting them on [...]

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Robot Building – Time Lapse Montage

April 5, 2010

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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The First Adventures of ROFL

February 26, 2010

The First Adventures of ROFL from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. ROFL is a BattleBot unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s described as an angry child having a temper tantrum. In later adventures, I put a camera in the box with ROFL and let him go at it. Stay tuned for that pretty funny footage.

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