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 stuff built really quickly.

This could very well be a part 1 of 2 as there will only be much more robot building in the week leading up to competition.

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.

Bots High Teaser Trailer from Joey Daoud on Vimeo.

It’s probably not the best to call this a trailer, since I really have no idea how the film will shape up (though I’m 90% sure Flamin’ Fluffy will be in it), but this played in the trailer section of the Borscht Film Festival, so I’m calling it a trailer.

It’s more of a good highlight reel of all the action at Mayhem in Miami. It even includes foreshadowing!

YouTube and blip.tv links.

The Explosive End of Fluffy from Joey Daoud on Vimeo.

The first Miami BattleBots competition went off this past weekend. As you can see in the video, I don’t think you could have asked for a more spectacular ending.

Stay tuned for some more videos from the competition.

Just got done with the Bots High exhibit at Sleepless Night. Tons of fun, thanks to everyone who came out. The video was a pretty stylish video of Fluffy destroying a robot shell. Kind of epic (coming online soon). And as you can see Fluffy was on display.

Awesome news – the gallery is going to be around until Art Basil, so I’ll be working on getting more videos in the space (I’m thinking something interactive, if I can pull it off).

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This past Sunday was a task competition at the Miami Science Museum. A ring is filled with 10 red and 10 blue balloons, and the task is to design a robot to pop an assigned color, plus a white balloon on the back of your opponent, while preventing yours from being popped.

While this isn’t the main focus of the documentary, it was still a lot of fun and lots of the teams that participated have or will be building robots for BattleBots.

The top two teams were from Columbus. Actually, they were the same team and decided to split their odds and build two robots. Seems to have paid off.

The team in third place has one of the best stories. They’ve only been doing robotics for a few months, beginning from a workshop held over the summer (I feel bad, I forgot what school they’re from).

Here’s a video from a camera I stuck in the heart of BatBot, made by Mechanical Misfits:

Bot Cam on Bat Bot from Joey Daoud on Vimeo.

And here’s a stylized video from a match shot in slow motion:

Robot Dance in Slow Motion from Joey Daoud on Vimeo.

The robot with the syringes ended up coming in first place, while the other robot came in third.

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