pic: Protecting the Camera is No Joke

[Greg Perkins]

when your bot gets hit, do you "shake that laffy taffy"?
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[Snickelfritz]

Team 1278 is using a full face shield for our 'bot

[Simon Strauss]

Arn't you worried about glare and the whatnot affecting the camera or am i pooping this party by being too serious?

[Joe J.]

Originally Posted by nycpunk

Arn't you worried about glare and the whatnot affecting the camera or am i pooping this party by being too serious?

Actually if you look real close you can see the top third or so of the front has been removed for the Camera to see through. So yes we were worried about the glare.

[the_short1]

i will have to get a picture of our camera mount and post it here.. with some nice lexan and a heat gun, you can do wonderful things

but what about all the gr 9 and 10s on the team, wont sugaring them up be a bad thing ? .. jokes aside.. thats an effective solution to a problem ..gj

[gam3fr3ak1]

Originally Posted by pyroslev

I browsed the websites and found 435 is using some kind of pretzel container.

actually, its animal crackers, me and another guy built it like 2 days before ship, we left the sticker on it too so if ur at VCU, come check it out

[Roger]

shamuwong, did the biscotti container fit over the camera? We went the pretzel container route but had to tape it on, which was a pain when we had to keep adjusting the camera. After Manchester my wife and I went to BJs and biscotti was the only thing that looked close to the right size. (Thankfully not the pickles, though I am fond of them.) I thought the most important thing would be a screw-on lid. Well, yeah, and that it fit around the camera.

Philmont629, I was wondering about your square container -- would that distort anything, or did it work okay? I couldn't see from the photo where you cut it open. That opens up a whole new world of foods if a square container works, but I'd pass off the Laffy Taffy to the kids; the biscotti however stays at home...

Roger.