The Movie page

The movie page
All the movies are on this page. Most of these have been shot with my G3 except the odd timelapse that was done with an old camcorder. Im still new to encoding these but I do get around 1/6 the source file size. Feedback regarding file size and such would be nice. These are all encoded as DivX so to play the files you will need to get the codec at http://www.divx.com/ . Alternately you should also be able to use the open source version called Xvid at http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ . For the movies on the page right click the picture and "Save link as".
	Date: March 27, 2005 (RoboGames 2005 in San Francisco) Tenzing, A rather impressive solar powered ribbon climber.
	Date: March 26, 2005 (RoboGames 2005 in San Francisco) Typhoon, A heavyweight from Scotland, it ends up taking second place to sewer snake. It easily dominates this fight though.
	Date: March 26, 2005 (RoboGames 2005 in San Francisco) The Robo One flat walker race. As adept as these are you would think that simply walking a few feet on a flat floor would be a cakewalk right? Sorry if the camera jiggles a bit I started laughing towards the end :)
	Date: March 26, 2005 (RoboGames 2005 in San Francisco) The same walker race but sped up.
	Date: March 26, 2005 (RoboGames 2005 in San Francisco) A fast wedge vs. a fast wedge! whee
	Date: March 26, 2005 (RoboGames 2005 in San Francisco) The Drum Machine, very cool piece of kinetic art.
	Date: March 25, 2005 (RoboGames 2005 in San Francisco) Got a great fight going till one of them lets out the magic smoke (sorry if I wrecked the ending for ya)
	Date: Nov 14, 2004 (ECRG in Toronto) Truffle Pig! The fastest (by far) linefollower at the 2004 ECRG. This was a run that Nicolas did for me specifically, although not it's best run it was still quick. In the competition it only needed one pickup. Size: 5.3 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) A typical FIRST match. LARGE file! it's the full 2 min round. Size: 15 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) Introduction to the HRP-2 humanoid robot, one of the most advanced humanoid robots to date. Size: 3.3 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) Some description about DOF (degrees of freedom) and a bit of a demo. Size: 6.7 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) More HRP-2 Demos Size: 7.6 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) The HRP-2 lays down then gets back up! (sorry for ruining the ending for you) Size: 5.5 Mb
	Date: Oct 23, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) See what can be done with a wack load of magnets in a remote controlled sumo on a steel wall. Size: 5.0 Mb
	Date: Oct 21, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) MIT swarm bots. Exclusively a research platform for swarm behaviors. They use IR to communicate and will automatically seek the charger when their batteries get low. One of them can be remote controlled, here they play follow the leader. Can you guess the name of the song they play? Size: 4.6 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) Odd lifelike figurines controlled by a ring of servos and steel cables. Size: 1.4 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) Demonstration of how robust the iRobot Packbot is. Must be fun to do this to a $45,000 robot. Size: 3.1 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) More packbot abuse. Size: 814 kb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) Random robot arm. Size: 3.8 Mb
	Date: Oct 24, 2004 It's a snail... shooting this caused me to miss my first CALtrain... Size: 1.4 Mb
	Date: Oct 22, 2004 (Robonexus in Santa Clara, CA) Video of the heaviest Tetsujin lift at Robonexus 1500 lbs! (excluding the bar) Size: 7.6 Mb
	Date: Oct 5, 2004 A trio of garter snakes, there were tons of them around so I picked up a few and tossed them in a bucket (up to this point I had hardly ever seen them before). They are amazingly agile, two of them flipped their tails over the edge and slithered backwards to get out. Grudgingly I kept the last one for a bit to show the others at work. While I was walking back he wrapped around my wrist and kept a fairly strong grip for such a slender snake. He happily unwrapped himself and took off when I set him down in the field. Size: 2.5 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) A very bright and loud battlebots match. Size: 9.2 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) Just a sad sumo match. Size: 1.2 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) Very impressive bi-pedal robots from japan. Size: 10.2 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) Another quick sumo match. Size: 820 kb
	Date: Oct 18, 2003 The prototype Sumovore 0wn1ng a full size sumo. Size: 914 kb
	Date: Jun 6, 2004 (PDXbot in Portland) Lo-bot testing. This Minisumo Built by Josh Triska won first place at PDXbot04. Its a fast one! Size: 2.8 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) A blender from Burning man 2003. Size: 3.0 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) Another Fast sumo match Size: 1.3 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) Japanese Sumo match, my they move quick! Size: 1.4 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) Nice Battlebot match, both end up taking a fair bit of damage. The blue one gets totaled though. Size: 6.5 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) The first match between Enders Wraith (at the top) and Returner (bottom) Size: 1.5 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) The second match between Enders Wraith (top, right) and Returner ( bottom, left) Ender was actually not working very well the sensors were set way too sensitive and it usually ended up charging the edge of the ring or following around it. That has since been fixed... Size: 1.0 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) Seeing more and more of these balancers. Size: 1.3 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) A great creation by Nick Donaldson of got robots? I wish I had a good movie of them sitting on his shoulders... Size: 1.6 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) Again just another sumo test. Size: 1.3 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) A Japanese autonomous sumo, most had both autonomous and RC control so they could compete in both competitions. They don't slow down at all while running in autonomous mode. Size: 2.2 Mb
	Date: Mar 20, 2004 (Robolympics in San Francisco) A Japanese RC sumo practicing, just gives you an idea of the speed these things move at. Size: 2.9 Mb
	Date: Mar 19, 2004 Sea Lions, taken the day before Robolympics, just done to show a bit of San Francisco. Size 1.8 Mb
	Date: Mar 18, 2004 (Exploratorium) Separation of a high voltage arc Size: 1.9 Mb
	Date: Mar 18, 2004 (Exploratorium) Ring on a spinning platform, basically your trying to spin the ring on the platform to get it to stay on as long as possible. I got one going for well over a minuet, it actually impressed one of the Exploratorium workers. Size: 1.5 Mb
	Date: Mar 18, 2004 (Exploratorium) Pendulums all started at the same time but with slightly different time constants gradually fall in and out of phase, interesting to watch. Size: 3.2 Mb
	Date: Mar 18, 2004 (Exploratorium) High voltage in a tub full of argon, you can vacuum out the air and add argon to create the arc. Then play with the mixture of air and argon to make some interesting effects. Size: 2.4 Mb
	Date: Mar 18, 2004 (Exploratorium) See cosmic rays in an evaporation chamber. Cosmic rays ionize a tiny bit of air allowing the vaporized isopropanol to condense in that area shown as a tiny line. Size: 1.8 Mb
	Date: Mar 18, 2004 (Exploratorium) Ferro magnetic fluid at the Exploratorium fascinating stuff. I'm controlling the flow with a magnet under the table. Size: 2.0 Mb
	Date: Mar 7, 2004 A movie of my lightstorm, built in 2001. You can sort of get an idea of the random nature of it. Size: 1.3 Mb
	Date: Feb 10, 2003 Testing the latest Turbot prototypes.
	Date: June 18, 2003 Movie of the micro pummer. Accidentally put the audio track in, oh well kudos if you recognize the track. Size: 473 kb
	Date: June 15, 2003 Butterflies. Powered by a 100W light Size: 1.0 Mb
	Date: May 17, 2003 Time lapse of the May full moon. The exposure settings as well as the aperture were on manual mode so it basically whites out when the sun rises. Size: 226 kb
	Date: May 10, 2003 (WCRG in Calgary) Scott's SW2 in the distance time trial. Size: 1.4 Mb
	Date: May 10, 2003 (WCRG in Calgary) Minisumo match Size: 1.6 Mb
	Date: May 10, 2003 (WCRG in Calgary) Strong Bad goes up against a Mark III minisumo. Size: 365 kb
	Date: May 10, 2003 (WCRG in Calgary) One of the first built Solarbotics minisumos at the workshop gets tested. Size: 1.7 Mb
	Date: May 10, 2003 (WCRG in Calgary) Mark III against a Mark III and the Mark III wins and the second match the other Mark III wins! Size: 1.1 Mb
	Date: May 10, 2003 (WCRG in Calgary) Three minisumos in a ring. Seeker 2, Strong bad and Marauder. Grudge matches are fun! Size: 2.7 Mb
	Date: May 10, 2003 (WCRG in Calgary) The same three minisumos. Size: 1.6 Mb
	Build Date: Jan 30, 2003 A head build using a VPM (Vibrating pager motor) The circuit that I used to make this can be found here. Also a video of this in action can be seen here. The video was taken earlier today, the quarter in the video is for size reference and the shadow of the coin gives an indication of the direction of the sun. This circuit will not lock but will continue to scan back and forth.
	Date: Dec 9, 2002 Having some fun with an array of pummers. Size: 2.8 Mb
	Build Date: Jan, 2002 A flower built for a fundraising auction in support of the arts and music program at the local collage. The frame is made mostly from 1/8th inch stainless steel rod that was silver soldered together. The colored pieces are made from an expanded PVC material known as Sintra. There are four polycarbonate balls in the center that softly light up at random intervals. See a brief movie of it (600KB). The flower stands about 20' Tall.
	Build Date: Aug 2001 Pummer built from a chunk of crystal that I bought in New Mexico (at the open air market). I bored a hole in the bottom for the LED so that it is actually imbedded inside, flashes a very bright green actually see for yourself (1.9MB).
	Date: June 14, 2001 An old timelapse of me tuning photopoppers. Size: 360 kb
	Date: Jun 8, 2001 A timelapse of a solar powered turbot. Size: 610 kb
	Date: Jun 2, 2001 A timelapse of three vibe bots in a steel ring, however I accidentally had a solar powered turbot on the table at the same time... Size: 1.4 Mb