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Robot Invasion of SXSW: Success

March 23, 2011

Just got back from SXSW in Austin. What an awesome trip – and awesome city! Going there was an experience in itself. I took a ride on the StartupBus – a bus full of entrepreneurs trying to launch a company in 48 hours on the way to SXSW. There was a lot of the same [...]

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Robot Battle Vid – Grasshopper vs Witch Doctor in Slow Motion

March 21, 2011
Witch Doctor tosses robot Grasshopper

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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How a Robot Battle Works

December 10, 2010
How a Robot Battle Works

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 Video – Witch Doctor vs Fuchsia Fusion

November 5, 2010
Witch Doctor attacks Fuchsia Fusion

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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Post Robot Competition Updates

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 [...]

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