Storm 2

[gravity]

what, no flippers ?

[paulc]

What has this thing turned into?! I thought I was saying out my admeration to the Storm 2 designers, and now were talking about the machines most likely to win an event.

So Ill draw up my top 5:

1) THZ
2) Storm 2
3) Big Nipper
4) Turbulence
5) Kronic (How strong is that flipper?!)

Now I admit I was wrong about the scale of work that went into Storm 2.

Now I relise that the 2 best pieces of engineering are Terrorhurtz/Big Nipper!

PS: 5) Kronic (How strong is that flipper?) is an actual question.

Can someone give me an answer?

:sad:PLEASE:sad:

[teamshock]

Kronics flipper is very strong

have a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oIE_DEzTiI

[leorcc]

Kronic has one of the if not the most powerfull flipper in the live circuit today.

[gravity]

most money to have gone into a robot, storm-2 wins hands down...

[leorcc]

Well as an investment in the sport it is not a bad ROI. Considering it was built in 2001 and still running.

The same can be said about Tough As Nails. It still goes after years of abuse.

[craig_anto]

or labour costs (Ed Tim not having a go jus mentioning) but Storm had quite a few parts made outside of the team aka titanium waterjet cut, i beleive the gears were machined by someone else also parts for the arm???? not sure thou one of the boys can correct me on that, that always takes a fair amount of dosh up,

you could look at other this example:- motors from a skip, speedcontroller home made for 30quid, hardox 120quid, gears 80quid, battieres 100quid radio 80quid wheels 130quid including tyre bonding
and thats a half decent amount for a fighting robot
540quid 100kg robot storms what another 0 on that

[gravity]

make that 2 zeros...
Speedcontrollers alone were 2000+ gbp (according to the storm site).
1 full day of setting op a cad thingy machine and 1 full day of work on the same machine... Thatll up the numbers...