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๐Ÿ“ธ Highlights โ€” 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 โ€” nothing fabricated. The headline event: 2026-06-10 late night, "knock the blue tape off the shoebox" โ€” 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)

๐ŸŽฌ The video (timelapse โ€” head-pen aggressive ram session)

Real timelapse.mp4 from the same 6/10 night โ€” 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.)

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

PROPOSAL ยท 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 โ€” 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) โ€” 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.

๐Ÿฅ The knockdown, frame by frame (knock-blue-tape, round 1 โ€” HIT)

baseline
โ‘  baseline โ€” box + blue tape on shoebox
stroke1
โ‘ก wind-up stroke toward target
ram
โ‘ข RAM โ€” direct hit, box displaced
headlight check
โ‘ฃ headlight-as-flashlight: box off paper, roll on floor
final
โ‘ค FINAL โ€” box fully off paper, Dash parked

๐Ÿ’ฅ More knockdowns (rounds 3โ€“6 โ€” bare-front + spotlight maneuvers)

r3 ram
R3 ram โ€” box TIPPED onto its big face
r5 spotlight
R5 spotlight-then-shoot: headlight reveals target
r5 ram
R5 ram @400 โ€” blue roll tipped flat
r6 ram
R6 drive-through @400 โ€” tube shoved off edge

โœ๏ธ Fun images โ€” the drawing work

head-pen RAM
head-pen rig: first RAM stroke
o brave new world
"o brave new world" run โ€” baseline
turn 360
turn_right 360 โ†’ 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 โ€” none fabricated. The single "really knocking it down" clip Jake asked for is the open PROPOSAL above; the stills sequence (โ‘ โ€“โ‘ค) is what was actually captured of that event.