So I wanted to see/hear about what hoods y’all are using for Change Up this season! My hood, consisting of a flag from 2 years ago and 2 metal parts extending it, is not working and I need more ideas please!
My hood is a bent aluminum 5 x 25 wrapped in rubber bands.
Could you send some pictures of your current hood because it is very possible that it can be modified to work in its current state.
My team has developed a hood using Lexan and rubberbands. We screwed a piece of lexan in hood shape to a hinge and mounted that on the bot. After doing that, a rubberband was attached to either sides of the tower just below the hood. The band was then attached to the top of the hood so whenever a ball exited the bot the hood would fall back down. Sorry if this was confusing, I currently don’t have any pictures of it right now but if you would like to see them i would be happy to show pictures later today.
we ended up screwing a sheet of plexiglass to a flat bar, then compressing it with rubber bands.
We used something similar to MJS’s umbrella hood and it works pretty well. Took a long time to tune but our team thinks its worth it
We have a small square of polycarbonate, it just rises up at the beginning of the match.
We have a hood that is basically the same to 99999V. It works pretty good but we still need to tune it so it shoot at better angles.
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