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Originally Posted by Steven Carmain
Control board was plywood not firmly mounted to chassis (tie wraps to bottom support boards, and RoboRio mounted with foam tape on board with tie wraps to help hold)
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This probably didn't do your control wiring any good, either. We had our STRONHOLD control board mounted with rubber pads and bungee, which allowed slight movement and some shock absorption, better both for controls and gyros.
While it isn't really critical at the FRC time and size scales, we still usually try to mount our gyros/inertial navigators to the chassis near the center of gravity of the robot. It should not be directly screwed or tied down, but there should be some fairly stiff shock mounting, similar to how you'd mount a compressor. For us, this has always meant that it was a good bit away from the RIO. IIRC, our last gyro was held down with a dense foam tape, with a cage of tie-wraps to capture it in case it came unstuck.