[EricH]

Originally Posted by AustinNordman

Communicate with the design team and demand enough room for well-organized electronics. The lack of electronics space on our 2013 robot is still an in-joke on my team.

On one of the teams I've been on, there was a space joke that went something like this...

"But [electrical mentor], we gave you three times as much space as last year!"
"Three times zero is still zero."

"Last year", in this case, was about a foot high, standard footprint at the time, and had cutouts on both ends and a hefty turret in the center. The robot under discussion had to go into the sizing box at an angle, and didn't take up the entire floor, but because it was taller, the team was able to use a two-to-three deck layout.