In February 1999, some impatient
robots and their creators descended upon a hidden community in Marin
County, CA to practice, show off, and beat up on each other!
This was the first of its kind events. We will most likely be doing
this on a regular basis in the future, so stay tuned for more!
updated 3/9/99
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Scott LaValley brought along DoAll, the famous tracked robot
with a gas powered cut-off saw!
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Stephen Felk putting some finishing touches on his new robot
Voltarc! This is a well-engineered machine with a powerful lifting
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Team S.L.A.M. arrived after an amazing 200 mile drive with
their new spinning-wedge robot. This father and son team (Lowell
and Steven Nelson) were the greatest characters! We welcome
you guys back any time, we all had a blast with ya!
This picture shows the camera-dude from Channel 5 News who
was there taping the whole thing...
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This is Llama-Chine. (Ha Ha, couldn't resist), actually this
is one of Scott LaValley's llamas that live in his parent's
back yard! Cool, huh?
I think you all know what LaMachine really looks like...
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Here's the real LaMachine getting a quick tune-up from Greg
Monson with Ginsu in the background. That's Trey Roski's head
in the way...
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Here's Ginsu- the all new robot from Team LaMachine with
20 inch cutting discs in place of wheels that didn't get into
the action with everyone else (heck, after all its just a
practice get-together, not an all-out destroy each other--
this time, anyway), but got to show off by climbing up the
underpass to everyone's amazement! Check out the video below
or by clicking on this image.
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My robot, Junior is just a middleweight
and was massively outweighted by these big boys, but he wanted
to show up when Hercules (my heavyweight
robot) started a small fire internally the night before and
was not able to get back running for the next day. Junior
got a couple scrapes and dings, but came away happy as a clam!
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This is a shot from inside Team LaMachine's workshop, where
the camera crew set everyone up for an interview. This was
cool to see all the robots and their creators together. Left
to Right is Scott LaValley, Trey Roski, and Greg Monson, The
robots are DoLittle (Their first robot), DoAll (on the floor),
Ginsu (on the chair in back), and LaMachine (DooMore is hanging
on the wall off camera to the right). This interview was fun
to watch, and although very little of it got in the final
cut that aired on Channel 5 Evening Magazine, I had fun watching
and listening.
I can't wait to do it all again! Hopefully Hercules will
be feeling well enough to show up next time!
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Video Footage
from the February 1999 Underground Robot Street Fight!!
(You may have already seen these videos
from my video page, but I felt like putting
them here again, so there)
To view the videos on this page, you will need either
RealPlayer
or Windows Media Player
If you do not have the RealPlayer, you can
download one free.
Click on the image to view
the video-it should download and then play.
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Underground Robot Street Combat
- February 1999
This is a collection of video images from our
little get-together in early February 1999. You can see
all the robots that showed up here, and a little about the
cool place we found to do this whole thing! We will definitely
have to do this again sometime!
Oh yeah, sorry to Stephen Felk, whose robot Voltarc didn't
make it into this cut, I didn't have anything I could fit
in here.
This one's a biggie, over 1Mb, but well worth it! Enjoy!
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LaMachine smashes DoAll
LaMachine was there, showing off for the camera crew from
Channel 5 News, and of course, Scott LaValley was more than
happy to put DoAll (who had been sitting idle in the garage
for several months before the morning of our event), in
LaMachine's path.
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S.L.A.M. Gets SLAMMED by LaMachine
Team S.L.A.M. was gracious enough to actually drive over
200 miles to get to our Underground Robot Street Fight!
This cool robot showed off for the crowd and the cameras,
and LaMachine didn't seem to like this, so here is what
happened! Hmm, I think Team S.L.AM. will be doing some LaMachine
retrofitting for the next meeting!
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Voltarc shows LaMachine a thing
or two
Voltarc got into the act, and somehow got under that shell
of LaMachine, and lifted LaMachine into the air! This wasn't
really any kind of battle, but it was interesting to see
the winner of the "my robot is closer to the ground
than yours" contest!
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Ginsu does some dangerous
hill climbing
When all the other robots had had their fill of metal and
asphault, Ginsu rolled into the street to show off what
those massive custom cutting blades can do! Ginsu cuts up
the sidewalk and climbs up the embankment on the side of
the underpass! Watch out, Trey- you don't want to get run
over by that thing coming back down!
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