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Re: Team 73 Defensive Bot (Almost There)

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Originally Posted by Mullen View Post
If you run a bar across the top front of your hopper and place a net on top you can prevent robots from shooting through you by forcing them to shoot into a ceiling. If the netting is loose enough, angled down and back, and has an opening in the back section of it, it won't prevent you from getting rebounds either. Balls could still be rebounded when they hit the top of you. The loose netting would cut back on their bounce as well as give you a larger collection area up top (with no top, the balls could go through you on the rebound just as they could on the original shot). Just make sure you don't cause a ball jam up there.
That's a better solution than I was thinking of.
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