Ah awesome Nick! After it look basically all day for me to upload one video I somewhat gave up. Much better to have such close up of the action!
Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:50 pm
Nick Experienced Roboteer
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Next time, I have some ideas to get rid of the reflections and smooth out the action with a miniature camera dolly track for even better close-up action
Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:55 pm
Glen Experienced Roboteer
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Well I'm slightly more conscious now so some final thoughts.
First off thanks all for coming, Angus and Kristy for videoing/photographing and Nick for supplying the arena and camera work also hope you had a decent enough day, Shame about the on and off again weather but i can't control that quite yet heh.
Good job Andrew on putting together a great little robot that won rather convincingly ala won every fight on the day, lots of nice new robots there too. The quality of the fights is getting better by the event IMHO.
Ill put up a pic of the scoring table tommorow for anyone that wants to see.
As for now its full steam on modifying the beetle arena for the next event. Not much time but hopefully it'll be slightly more workable this time round ! _________________ www.demon50s.com - Minimoto parts
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Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:57 pm
Jaemus Experienced Roboteer
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Nick: The videos i did with my iPad through the top of the arena were nearly reflection-free, maybe worth videoing from the top for future ant events? _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:05 pm
Nick Experienced Roboteer
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I noticed that too - its due to the lens being right up against the plastic so no light can reflect off the front of the plastic & into the camera. There are a few things I can try tofix the problem and there is a whole month to experiment.
Photos have been uploaded to my photobucket account. Feel free to use them as you wish. Credits would be awesome if you use them on other sites
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Also wondering if I could throw a couple up on my facebook page as well.
Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:29 pm
andrew
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hey all,
Do we have any more videos from last weekend which need uploading still?
Have people wanting to see videos and we have 3-4 on youtube and half of them are one hit wonders or what not.
Just looked at them photos also and damn they came out nice.
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More videos on the way!
Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:06 am
miles&Jules Experienced Roboteer
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Hey Nick,..know the problem with reflections in the glass.... one way of minimising camera reflections is to film from a side that has no backlight. A wall just behind camera is good.....noticed this from the featherweight arena at hackerspace.
Looked great at the serial space event with the lighting from above in a darkened room ..it was like an aquarium of destruction..he he
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@ Miles & Jules: The set up at Glen's place is in the middle of the yard - no easy way to avoid back lighting I'm afraid. To fix that problem, I will try a large camera hood to simulate the same effect without completely blocking off one side of the arena for the punters.
The dolly track using salvaged computer slide rails was not so great; a bit jerky and noisy, so I ordered a set of linear bearings like the ones in Angus's CNC table. They have 3/8" steel rails and plastic bearing blocks that should be silent and hopefully smooth. Topping that off is a Manfrotto video head with oil damping, something I have been wanting for about 20 years:
The other idea I want to try out is having two cameras mounted together; the main one and the GoPro in wide angle mode to capture all the shenanigans of the vertical spinners, which should make for more exciting video clips.
Finally, I'd like to try better audio. The current set up can't take an external mike and its really letting the video down. I really like to hear the audience reactions and that seems poor at the moment.
Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:30 pm
miles&Jules Experienced Roboteer
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Sounds good! Yeah big ass lens hood would help...yeah we got an old 70's miller fluid head tripod that still moves like a dream(eve though it a bit leaky)..and we swapped out the old school wooden miller legs for a set of less old school manfroto tripod legs.....I always wanted to get a pair of the chinese miller rip-off tripods they have on ebay for $200.....I bet they would work great. Never seem to have the spare $400 for em though especially since robot building has begun.he he. Good work on the vids to! _________________ Miles Blow - Julie Pitts
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Much better to have such close up of the action! 
hope you had a decent enough day, Shame about the on and off again weather but i can't control that quite yet heh.
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