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Re: DRIVER STATION DESIGNS

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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi View Post
What did you use to connect all your switches and buttons? Was it a custom board that all went to 1 usb connected to the driver station laptop or did you use a COTS board?
I'm not sure about them, but for our driver station we used a Cypress PSoC 3 with a carrier and enclosure from eStop/AndyMark.

Regarding the driver station itself, it has a frame of aluminum l-channel, bolted together, with a piece of 1/4 inch plexiglass on top and bottom. It has two joysticks, a variety of buttons, potentiometers, and switches.

Looking inside of it, from left to right, you can first see two red batteries for the blue cold cathode ray lights. The small blue boxes are for the lights as well. The black area beneath the joysticks is for an Enercell backup battery for the laptop. The little green LED is for the Cypress chip, and the far black box is full of autonomous mode switches. The panel with the buttons is on a hinge for easy access to the wiring.

Overall, it was fun to build and wire, and, I think, looks pretty good.

TL;DR: Aluminum and plexiglass and custom button layouts. Also, lights.
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