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TonyHetherington said:
That just reminded me why I really didn't like Tornado.ajprice said:
TonyHetherington said:
That just reminded me why I really didn't like Tornado.very good looking machine, but not good against tougher opponents.
They could have done it against any machine and never get harmed. Reminds me of this - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AtArmsL...
The best flip of all time, wheely big cheese on axe-awe. If it had done the flip at the side of the arena it'd probably have ended up in the crowd!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGz4xD43kSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGz4xD43kSA
deevlash said:
The best flip of all time, wheely big cheese on axe-awe. If it had done the flip at the side of the arena it'd probably have ended up in the crowd!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGz4xD43kSA
The one at the controls (the beard) IIRC also had a very good, for the time, walking robot in the walkers category.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGz4xD43kSA
The Cassius guy left Robot Wars, allegedly, because he complained about certain safety issues but was ignored / poo-pooed, yet was also admonished for using a screwdriver without eye protection.
Apparently he was a bit of a mentor to some of the other roboteers and helped the Chaos2 team a little. There is a vid somewhere of a very unofficial friendly between Cassius and Chaos2 on some wasteground round the back of an industrial unit somewhere.
Apparently he was a bit of a mentor to some of the other roboteers and helped the Chaos2 team a little. There is a vid somewhere of a very unofficial friendly between Cassius and Chaos2 on some wasteground round the back of an industrial unit somewhere.
JonRB said:
The Cassius guy left Robot Wars, allegedly, because he complained about certain safety issues but was ignored / poo-pooed, yet was also admonished for using a screwdriver without eye protection.
Apparently he was a bit of a mentor to some of the other roboteers and helped the Chaos2 team a little. There is a vid somewhere of a very unofficial friendly between Cassius and Chaos2 on some wasteground round the back of an industrial unit somewhere.
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb21710/common/skins/common/blank.gifApparently he was a bit of a mentor to some of the other roboteers and helped the Chaos2 team a little. There is a vid somewhere of a very unofficial friendly between Cassius and Chaos2 on some wasteground round the back of an industrial unit somewhere.
Edited by deevlash on Monday 6th September 14:47
deevlash said:
As the filename suggests, that's a blank image. 
Razor was the daddy, properly elegant design, and virtually unstoppable.
Distinctly remember a Cambridge Uni team who had carbon, titanium and all the exotic materials, think it even had some stupidly expensive Japanese axe as a weapon. The controller had a stupid exo-skeleton frame thing just to hold a transmitter!
Then it got trashed.
I laughed.
What was it called, anyone remember?
Distinctly remember a Cambridge Uni team who had carbon, titanium and all the exotic materials, think it even had some stupidly expensive Japanese axe as a weapon. The controller had a stupid exo-skeleton frame thing just to hold a transmitter!
Then it got trashed.
I laughed.
What was it called, anyone remember?
JonRB said:
deevlash said:
As the filename suggests, that's a blank image. Sway said:
Razor was the daddy, properly elegant design, and virtually unstoppable.
Distinctly remember a Cambridge Uni team who had carbon, titanium and all the exotic materials, think it even had some stupidly expensive Japanese axe as a weapon. The controller had a stupid exo-skeleton frame thing just to hold a transmitter!
Then it got trashed.
I laughed.
What was it called, anyone remember?
Sounds like Mortis - http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/MortisDistinctly remember a Cambridge Uni team who had carbon, titanium and all the exotic materials, think it even had some stupidly expensive Japanese axe as a weapon. The controller had a stupid exo-skeleton frame thing just to hold a transmitter!
Then it got trashed.
I laughed.
What was it called, anyone remember?
Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 6th September 14:57
Sway said:
Razor was the daddy, properly elegant design, and virtually unstoppable.
I always thought the problem with all the "pinching" hydraulic robots was how slowly the jaws clamp together, which means your opponent needs to lurk around in the danger area for ages whilst you get your robots jaws shut on them?? I never understood why the builders didn't just use 2 pumps, 1 high pressure to apply the massive crushing force, and 1 high flow (with a one way valve) to quickly snap the jaws shut at the right moment???The advantage of Hypnodisc and the other kinetic energy robots was that actually, you didn;t need a lot of skill to drive them, either just drive straight into your opponent, or even better, just wait for him to drive into you, the result is much the same!
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