Mechanical Misfits

Mechanical Misfits

A large, all-girl team from Carrollton, the Mechanical Misfits move up from task oriented robots to combat robots with their 15 lb. Lil’ Kanye.

Follow the History of the Teams in Bots High

September 1, 2011

Bots High takes place over the 2009-2010 school year. Unsurprisingly, the teams had a history before and after the time the film takes place (2011 Epilogue now in the DVD!). So to expand the scope and add some cool context and backstory to the Oct 6 screening day, I’ve been tracing the history of each team [...]

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Camilla: “Let’s Hope it Isn’t a Fail” [Character Poster]

January 13, 2011
Camilla - Mechanical Misfits

Let’s Hope it Isn’t a Fail The Mechanical Misfits – the name pretty much says it all. Here Misfit member Camilla is holding their robot Lil’ Kanye (“Cause he’ll never let you finish”).

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Miami Science Museum Competition

October 13, 2009
Balloon Popping

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 [...]

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