[JesseK]

This year we returned to our habit of a removable electronics board, which really helped during the final days when we wanted to get into a tight spot to drill a rivet out and replace a minor part without getting shavings everywhere.

My team has been through several generations of quick-connects, and this year we're going with the gigantic Andersons (yes, the one for the battery). I personally don't like them as much because there's no way to reverse the connectors for quick debugging or quick retraction of an arm on a window motor (and they're huge). However, we used the big ones this year because (from what I've discerned in conversations) they have permanent mount holes built into them, whereas the mini andersons do not. Other than the zip-tie method, does anyone know of a way to perma-mount a mini-anderson pair?

We've also moved away from using clustered blocks of mini-andersons to connect parts of the robot -- everything is generally fine until a single motor in the block has to be replaced, at which point that one pair of connectors has to be pried out of the block. This wreaked havoc on us in 2008.