Storm 2

[blazerbotics]

http://www.teamstorm.com/heavies/storm2/series7/speed/index.htmhttp://www.teamstorm.com/heavies/sto...peed/index.htm

[tim]

Ok, before too much exageration goes on here and blows things out of proportion.

WJ - one zero would be far closer to the truth than two

Just because the worth of the speed controller is stated at £2000 does not mean that it cost £2000. At the time there was real potential for these controllers to be developed into a marketable product.

The worth of Storm II would be significantly different from the cost of Storm II.

Obviously yes, there has been significant investment, focussed on one rather than several robots as in some teams, and the arm in particular as Craig notes was one of the main drains - principally because of the time we had to get an active weapon in a very small place.

The rule change screwed us ... we screwed back!

However, for the most part never underestimate the power of blagging (and Eds gift for it :wink, painstaking sourcing of parts and the effect that careful planning and longer time scales for manufacture can have on driving down the cost (but not the worth) of a robot.

Ed and I have both worked the robot ourselves, including the Ti (after the initial water cut), far more than perhaps we are given credit for at times!

Tim
http://www.teamstorm.comhttp://www.teamstorm.com

[craig_anto]

no 259 did it with a spinner in series 6 auditions i knwo because something nearly landed on me

[gravity]

wedge + 100kg + incredible speed = flipper...

[kane]

I remember that fight Craig, it was very noisy!

[liambryant]

I remember the fight Storm 2 had with Kan-Opener & Merlin when Roaming Robots had their one and only event in Edinburgh (Sadly:sad way back in 2004. And When Storm 2 banged Kan-Opener into the wall at one point, I was like this Lol!

[john]

Hi Tim,

i see your getting a new site, whens it going live?

good luck in america too, think you could win it

go n show them americans which country are the bosses of robotic sport :P

[tim]

John,

sorry for the late response, I missed the original post, the site is live now with with loads of new content - including details of our new sponsers, as well as some old content (event reports going back to 2001 from the team).

Thanks for the good luck message, we hope to do well and think we have a very good chance of doing well.

Well be looking to fly the flag on behalf of the UK

[ady]

cool site, some real good reading their..
good luck in the states