[EricH]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

We make a new board every year because, while the design stays about the same, the holes drilled into the board for mounting and placements of these holes change based on the user control. If you wanted to re-use the same drivers console year after year, obviously this would be difficult.

Actually, you could do something that would work.

Get a project box from RadioShack. If you get a decent-sized one, it should cover all the buttons you'd need (say, a 12"x9"x3" box). If you design a space for the box--including a cable routing to an interface to the laptop--and just change that box every year, then you should be OK.

Now, I do wonder why you want ANOTHER E-stop--there's one set in the driver station on the laptop (I think it's the spacebar), at the events there's a Big Red Button in the driver's station that will immediately disable your robot for the match. But that's just me.