I think a video focused on the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) would be pretty awesome! It's a high school robotics program where students on thousands of teams around the world design, build, wire and program robots. Every year in January a new game is announced. Teams then get to work designing a robot that can play that game. They work for 8-12 weeks until their local competitions where they compete. Winners at these events then compete at a national championship at the end of April.
This year's game is called Rapid React - here's the announcement video:
The game animation can seem a little cheesy, but the competitions can get intense:
Competitions aside, there's a lot of cool technology on the robots. Every robot uses a custom-made controller called the National Instruments roboRIO, and robots are controlled by programs written by the students in Java, C++, or LabVIEW, often with the WPILib Framework. For the first 15 seconds of the match, the robots run autonomously based on those custom programs. Then for 2 minutes 15 seconds a drive team operates it.
The robots can use a mix of sensors like encoders, optical sensors, color sensors, potentiometers, ultrasonic sensors, etc. and actuators like CIM motors, brushless motors, servos, pneumatics pistons/solenoids, etc.
I was on a team (514!) all through high school and have been mentoring there since I graduated in 2017. It was an amazing way in high school to have a practical way to learn about engineering and programming, and as a mentor it's great to help other students get that same experience. I think there's the potential for at least one video here, if not multiple. Happy to help provide any other info that might be useful!
