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Re: covering...
We have made sure to protect our robot to the maximum ever since our second year when we forgot our front panel in a scrimmage and a robot had some form of a hook (I was not in robotics yet) and ripped all of our electronics and pneumatics out, on to the field. This year we have all four sides of our robot protected and a nice big slanted sheet of 3/16 in Lexan covering the entire top with a cut out for our mast, and a hinged door for our battery and backup battery. Normally we only use 1/8 in Lexan for protection but this year we were way under weight so we used 1/4 in or 3/16 in everywhere. The reason this year's game requires the robots to be protected is because the tetras and hooks/manipulators from other robots can find there way into small opening and damage your robot.
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