For anyone who wants to see some of the pics of Team Storm's trip to RoboGames (5 years ago now, can you believe that) we've just put the pictures up on the Team Storm Facebook Page.
https://www.facebook.com/teamstormrw
Go take a look, and feel free to give us a 'like' if you're wanting to keep up to date with the team !
Ed
Just had a look through, nice to see a bit behind the scenes with Robogames and all that!
Bit of a question as well, when you took Storm II through as luggage all bubble wrapped up and all that, did you have to take much of the insides out to bring the weight down so it could actually be shipped or anything?
Storm II was built from the ground up to travel - the chassis stripped down weighs 32Kg exactly so yes you take all the insides out and then ship the chassis as a 'suitcase'. Was always designed like that !
We took a total of 290Kg in the hold as our luggage an then two items of hand-luggage each also.
Simplez
Ed
That's a rather cool feature, that - very nicely done! 290kg of luggage sounds a whole lot of fun too, haha!
Thanks though, something I've always wondered about teams travelling overseas for tournaments! :)
Nothing fun about 3 x 32Kg bags each... except we had most of our armour packed into one tiny little bag, like the 'carry on' bags that you get for taking in the cabin. But it weighed 32Kg, was hilarious watching a hotel doorman reach to pick it up and almost pull himself to the ground rather than lift the thing up :)
What I've always wanted to ask, then you've paid for everything self or the RoboGames has given what to, me would in fact interested Burning times with what costs you have to Convert to such an event if you would like!
Hey, realise that English isn't your first language but I'm not sure I can quite work out what you are asking ? Do you mean how much did it cost us to attend RoboGames ?
:D Yes this is my Big Problem, google translate is *! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by teamstorm
The Words translate, not Problem for me, Sentence structure because I fail!
That's what I want to know!Quote:
Originally Posted by teamstorm
Hotel, Flight, Shipment etc. ...
What pay RoboGames in those days?
Or were you asking what did RoboGames pay for and what did you have to pay for?
RoboGames doesn't pay you to attend, we paid all our own costs. Can't remember exact costs, but it was 5 hotel nights, we didn't ship Storm II, it's designed to travel as baggage on a flight, so we had 3 x Business Class return flights to San Francisco in there as well. Am sure you can do some research and work out what the costs would be - it's not cheap !
All this and much more, only no one understands me! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Max
Rene, frag mahl in Deutsch, ich werde mein bestes tun.
I can't wait to witness this conversation in Norwich :-)
I've offered IceMaster to help with translations, where needed, LOL
Ich hab ja gebettelt das einer von den deutschen mit kommt, wollte ja keiner, jetzt werdet ihr schon sehen was ihr von habt! ^^
Also zum Thema, das ist ja einer der Kämpfe die Storm II hatte...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulDsRIMcJg
Anfangs geht er Richtig gut in den Kampf, zum Ende hin, nach 2:30 Minuten Fehlt im Grunde schon Kraft um zu Kämpfen, war Storm II nur so Ausgelegt von der Dauer auf 3 Minuten, oder die Zellen Kaputt, denn das Bild hier spricht für sich, wenn es denn zu diesen Kampf ein zu Ordnen ist...
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...71060136_n.jpg
(Von Englisch ins Deutsche Übersetzen braucht ihr nicht, damit hab ich keine Probleme, ich bekomme es nur nicht hin die Wörter im Englischen Richtig zu einen Satz zu Formen, wie man sieht! ;) )
It wasn't a battery pack issue that meant we lost the fight, what you can't see is that Storm II has thrown two chains towards the end of the fight, meaning one side of the robot is running on one driven wheel only. The robot can still drive like that, and at the time driving it's hard to tell if you have thrown a chain or just have a bit of debris under you.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater
The battery pack that caught fire actually caught fire before this fight with Sewer Snake and was just swapped out with a spare pack without too much drama. It wasn't the chains that meant we lost the fight however this ....
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater
.. was a fairly fatal issue. We exploded a gear off the shaft, it was eventually found in the arena cracked into a number of pieces. We flew almost 300Kg of luggage out to San Francisco - guess what one spare part we didn't have ? :(
Ed
Alles klar, jetzt verstehe ich den Ablauf vom Event, bei nur ein paar Bildern, Formt man sich ja im Grunde seine eigene Geschichte! ;)
Das mit dem Ritzel am Motor ist natürlich echt Heftig, da hab ich bei mir in Luzifer auch immer etwas Angst, ich hab die guten alten PMG080 Verbaut für den Antrieb, die Welle ist 10mm im Durchmesser, wenn die mal reist, Motor Ersatz gibt es ja nicht mehr der PMG080 wird ja leider nicht mehr gebaut, die alternative Lynch Motoren ist zwar nee Alternative aber echt Heftig im Preis zumindest neu!
Das mit dem Gepäck kenne ich auch, alles dabei in Portsmouth, bis auf die Anleitung vom Waffen Regler, kein Internet zur Hand und keiner kennt sich aus mit den "IFI Robotics Victor 885" echt ärgerlich wenn man bei Event nur am Rumprobieren ist!
Aber nicht zu vergleichen mit euerer Situation, da würd ich glatt gegen die Wand Rennen und Shit Brüllen! :D
Auf Deutsch kommt das besser "Scheiße"! *LOL*