Are you a robot nerd? I’m not, but I do have one living in my house so I am by extension. If you read this blog regularly you have probably noticed that I have children. One of them is on a FIRST Robotics team at the local high school. Yesterday was kick-off for the build season. Build Season is the six weeks that the teams have to build their robots to compete in this year’s competition. This year’s game is called Aerial Assist.
Last semester my robot child took a vinyl cutting machine that the school had but was broken, fixed it, and then used it to cut out her robotics team logo and put it on the exterior door of the robotics classroom. The logo is a variation on the school’s mascot, which is a ram. Because I am a proud mom, I took a bunch of pictures:
ISO 160 50mm 0ev f/5.6 1/1000
In this case I have a fast shutter speed because I knew I was going to bracket these photos and process them into HDR images using Photomatix. I also created a black and white version:
ISO 160 50mm 0ev f/5.6 1/1000
In both versions I decided to stick with trying to create photos that kept all the detail and stayed true to what you would see if you were up at the high school taking a look for yourself.
So, yesterday was the beginning of a very busy time in this household. I’m excited for my robot child, because she is excited about the start of the season. It’s a bit sad though, because a lot of my communication with her over the next six weeks will be via text.
If you’ve never heard of FIRST Robotics, maybe check out my links above, it is a really great program and they have all different age levels as well.
What do you think of the Ram logo that my robot child created? I think it is pretty cool. Feel free to leave a comment below.
Cheers!
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