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Re: The Alliance Station

Our team has made a cart that we use to carry both the robot and the laptop/joysticks. The cart is made out of aluminum extrusion with four adjustable pegs that hold the robot up (you slide them to the correct width depending on the size of that year's robot) and a small bracket on the back that our laptop/joystick panel hooks onto. The laptop and joysticks are actually mounted to a piece of polycarbonate framed by extrusion, and the extrusion is what the bracket on the cart slides into to secure the laptop and joysticks.

The handy part about this is that you laptop and joysticks are then attached to one panel. You just lift the panel, set it on the ledge in the alliance station, and then you're done. You don't have to worry about arranging them since they're already in a set position in relation to the other components.
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