Re: Driver station computer limits
 

Make sure its durable and can withstand a fall. Accidents do happen!

Re: Driver station computer limits
 

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but if someone has, forgive the redundancy - USB Ports, and the number of them are a critical driver's station computer's attributes. In a perfect world, the ideal Driver's station computer has one or two more USB ports than you'd ever need, and all of them are capable of providing a decent bit of current (IIRC, something like 1-2a?).

In 2010 when the switch was made from the 'blue box' to the classmate, a lot of teams had issues running multiple devices from the classmate without using a USB hub that had a secondary power cord. I think this issue has become less prominent since the rules regarding the DS computers were opened in the last few years, but it's still something to keep in mind.

Also, this might be the grumpy old man in me, but for the love of all things related to robots, keep the driver's station clean. By clean, I mean free of any unrelated software, games, unnecessary files, etc. The computer being used for the Driver's station, should only be used for that purpose, and possibly as a computer that a programmer can use to write code... There's nothing worse than showing up to a match and watching a team restart their driver's station because someone was playing a game 5 minutes before and the computer crashed...

Re: Driver station computer limits
 

Your friendly FTAs will agree with you as well here. It doesn't hurt to make sure that you have administrator access on the computer as well so that if/when you have an issue connecting to your robot, we can get in and adjust settings if necessary.