Miami

Live Q&A From Miami Tonight

October 6, 2011

Watch live streaming video from botshigh at livestream.com Tune in tonight (or today, depending where you are) at 8:30 PM EST to watch the Q&A with cast and crew from the Miami screening for today’s Bots High worldwide screenings. Tweet your questions to @botshigh. And a new DVD page was launched. Check it out here. [...]

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Bots High at Geek Film Festival This Weekend

July 1, 2011

What better way to celebrate America’s freedom than by watching robots smash each other up! Bots High will be at the Geek Film Festival this weekend, which is part of Florida Supercon. I’ll be there for Q&As, along with some of My Mechanical Romance and Mechanical Misfits. Screening Times: Saturday, July 2 – 2:00 PM [...]

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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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Fighting Robots Documentary Bots High Premieres on the Big Screen

March 3, 2011
Bots High Stars and Director

Last Saturday was the World Premiere of Bots High! It was a great screening at the Paragon Theater in Coconut Grove – lots of laughs, great reaction.   Afterwards we had a Q&A (Elizabeth and Danielle were away at school). My favorite question – a little boy asked if it was fake. Nope, no mockumentary [...]

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Bots High World Premiere – Get Your Free Tickets!

February 16, 2011
World Premiere of Bots High

Bots High will be having its World Premiere next Saturday, in conjunction with the 2011 BotsIQ National Championship. With the climax of the film taking place at the 2010 competition, I felt it was only fitting to premiere at the event where a lot of the teams in the film will be. This is a [...]

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Crohn’s and Hospital Adventures

February 1, 2011
Stuck in the Hospital

This is a pretty personal post that I’m writing more as a PSA than anything else. If you follow any of the Facebook or Twitter feeds, two weeks ago I was stuck in the hospital. I have Crohn’s disease, and I had a flare up. What’s Crohn’s? That’s the first thing I thought when I [...]

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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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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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