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# 📸 Highlights — the knockdown reel

The standalone highlights page (per Jake's 6/13 ask). Everything below is a real file already committed in this node's `letters/` and `smiley/` run dirs — nothing fabricated. The headline event: 2026-06-10 late night, "knock the blue tape off the shoebox" — Dash lined up a target point PAST the box and drove THROUGH it at speed 400. 3 strokes, zero turns, box shoved fully off the paper's edge. (`letters/runs/2026-06-10-knock-blue-tape/log.md`)

## 🎬 The video (timelapse — head-pen aggressive ram session)

Real `timelapse.mp4` from the same 6/10 night — the RAM strokes that taught the "drive THROUGH it" technique. (The blue-tape knockdown itself was shot as stills, below; this is the closest captured video of Dash ramming at speed.)

Your browser can't play this. File: letters/runs/2026-06-10-head-pen-aggressive/timelapse.mp4

Other real videos in this node: `letters/runs/2026-06-10-o-brave-new-world/timelapse.mp4` · `smiley/runs/2026-05-18-around-oval-2/timelapse.mp4` · `smiley/runs/2026-05-18-new-dash-circles/circles.mp4`

PROPOSAL · blocked on Jake's footage

### A standalone "really knocking it down" video

Jake (6/13) asked specifically for "a quick video of us really knocking down the robot." That exact clip does not exist in the repo — the knockdown was captured as the stills sequence below, and the only ram-at-speed video committed is the head-pen timelapse above.

To close this:

- Jake records (or hands over) a short phone clip of Dash ramming the box off the paper, OR
- confirm the head-pen timelapse above is "good enough" as the highlight video and this proposal can be dropped, OR
- re-run the knock-blue-tape mission with the recorder on for video (not just frame stills) — the rig + protocol still exist.

Acceptance: a real `.mp4` of the knockdown lands in `letters/runs/.../` and gets embedded here, replacing this proposal box. No media will be fabricated.

## 🥁 The knockdown, frame by frame (knock-blue-tape, round 1 — HIT)

① baseline — box + blue tape on shoebox
② wind-up stroke toward target
③ RAM — direct hit, box displaced
④ headlight-as-flashlight: box off paper, roll on floor
⑤ FINAL — box fully off paper, Dash parked

## 💥 More knockdowns (rounds 3–6 — bare-front + spotlight maneuvers)

R3 ram — box TIPPED onto its big face
R5 spotlight-then-shoot: headlight reveals target
R5 ram @400 — blue roll tipped flat
R6 drive-through @400 — tube shoved off edge

## ✍️ Fun images — the drawing work

head-pen rig: first RAM stroke
"o brave new world" run — baseline
turn_right 360 → the clean O on paper
Provenance: every image/video above is a real file already committed in this node's `letters/` and `smiley/` run dirs — none fabricated. The single "really knocking it down" clip Jake asked for is the open PROPOSAL above; the stills sequence (①–⑤) is what was actually captured of that event.