Outside of the Box

NHRL Round 1 Preview on Outside of the Box

We're back to preview the first round of NHRL competition in 2025! I gathered a great collection of competitors representing every weight class with Anthony, Nelson, Paul & Craig to chat about their preparation for this event, who they'd love to face and which robots they might want to avoid. Check it out and get ready to see robots fight on February 1st!

2024 Boxy Award Winners and Year End Wrap-Up

Join myself and Ashley for the final OOTB episode of 2024 as we talk about all of the amazing Boxy winners including out super special secret categories that we had not announced publicly! We also talk about the year as a whole including amazing growth in the combat robotics community and also the amazing antweight kit giveaway when I hit 1000 subscribers on YouTube! Check it out!

2024 NHRL Finals Preview on Outside of the Box

For this episode, I gathered a group of the most talented builders at NHRL to talk about the most wonderful time of the year - FINALS time! Join myself, Jamison, Aidan, Corey, Glenn, Jaaron, Matt, Myles, Peter, Brandon, Dima & Julian as we chat about everyone's season so far and how they feel about finals. You'll see some friendly trash talk, thoughts on the rest of the field and how everyone feels about Emulsifier. Check it out!

The 2024 Boxy Award Nominees Show

It is finally that time of the year for Ashley and I to get together and recognize so many amazing people in the combat robotics community. Hear us work through all of the categories and talk about each of the nominees one by one. Voting will run through December 4th so make sure to vote for your favorites! You can cast your votes here: https://forms.gle/TEcgKNDi9E64YF6g7 

Michael Perl of the Grant Imahara STEAM Foundation on Outside of the Box

I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Michael Perl who is a multi-talented entrepreneur and President of the Grant Imahara STEAM Foundation. He talks about how he got his start in music and then video games where he developed his own game studio and eventually got connected with the Foundation. We talked about the STEAM Star program which features influencers talking about their experiences as well as their Bot Battles program - both of which are completely free. You can check out their programs on https://www.grantimaharafoundation.org/ and botbattles.org.

NHRL October 2024 Event Recap on Outside of the Box

The October NHRL event was full of tricks and treats including a great run from Drumder Child, an impressive showing from Minor Threat 5 and Golden Dumpsters for Slam Plan and ARES. In this episode, I talk to Nate Franklin about going up against strong competition in his bracket fights, then chatted with Luke Grell about his hard-hitting, veteran robot. Brendan Steele aka Business Cat also makes a bold prediction about his chances at the December Finals and the ARES crew at MIT talks about rebuilding their combat robotics program and about that thrilling win over WarHard XXL!

MRCA Finals Preview Featuring Qualifying Competitors

It has been a little while since I have done a true roundtable and you certainly won't want to miss this one, which features a number of the qualified competitors for the upcoming MRCA Finals event on November 9th. They each talked about their robots and the journey to finals this year. I also asked each of them who they think will win the competition and how they feel about the rapid growth of the league.
Check out some of the competitors channels: https://youtube.com/@kiron_robotics_real?si=gJC6IqXE__Xc1IKs  https://www.youtube.com/@UCQ-og4JhU9oA8sUF5J0HeIg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLuQ7paA56Q6QX0vBTx6zeg

Dungeons & Robots Part 2: An Outside of the Box Special

We're back with the epic conclusion of Dungeons & Robots! J joins us for this final session as all of our characters try and make sense of the chaos and killer robots in our post-apocalyptic world. Will they be able to save this world? What other robots might creep up and challenge our heroes? Will mini Jake indeed survive until the end? All of these questions will be answered in this episode! Thank you so much to all of the players for such a fun game!

NHRL October Preview with a special Pokemon segment!

It is almost time for NHRL's final qualifying event of 2024 and I was joined by a handful of builders to chat about it. I talked to Jeff Waters about his new 30lb entry Pocket Aces plus his fiery upgrades to Supreme Ruler, had a spirited Pokemon discussion with Jaaron, Zoe & David about their Pokemon-themed robots and finally talked to Dima of Turbofiend and Tom of Pawsitively Hissterical about coming into October with a competitive mindset. This is a fun episode you won't want to miss!

NHRL September 2024 Event Recap on Outside of the Box

We've got a fun recap for you today featuring NHRL builders in all weight classes to break down this exciting event for them! I talked to Julian of Mako, Beckett & Matthew of Dimachaerus and Donald and Corey of Team Pandamonium about how their respective tournaments went, what they thought of some of the other competitors at the event and what their thoughts are ahead of Finals as Julian, Beckett and Corey qualified at this event. As usual, it is a great time with great builders!