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Re: BattleBots Return - And They're Powered by VEXpro!
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Originally Posted by Necroterra
As a side note, would some sort of thick foam work to catch a horizontal spinner? It wouldn't be entanglement, per say, but rather absorbing all the kinetic energy...
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While the foam is deccelerating the spinning blade, the will be plenty of equal and opposite reactions going on that will affect both robots.
Also, in general, anything that does a lot of deccelerating in a short distance starts to be more like tire rubber, or loops of steel cable, than it is like foam.
I think I would prefer trying a mixture of sloped armor, mechanisms that would anchor me to the floor when struck, and/or actively grabbing the spinner while it is slow after a hit.
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