[slijin]

I just joined the team this year, but last year, there was a large vertical plywood board on the back of the robot that had just about all the electronics mounted to it. A lexan guard could be slid in to protect them.

Just under that board, there's an aluminum plate resting on the chassis (so when you look at the robot from the side, you see sort of an L shape) that extends into the robot. Our cRIO is mounted on one side of that board, and a hole was cut into the plywood so that we could place a battery on the aluminum plate.

This year, some of the electronics were scattered. We have a 4-CIM drivetrain in the rear of our robot, and there's a lexan cover over them. The PDB and sidecar went on that lexan cover (it's braced by aluminum L, so it's fairly sturdy), mounted down with screws. Behind the CIMs - between our rear wheels - on the chassis, there's a lexan plate occupied by 4 Victors to control those CIMs. The other Victors - the 3 controlling the kicker, acquirer, and hanger - are mounted around the frame, wherever convenient. The drivetrain Victors are mounted with screws; the others with (industrial strength) Velcro. The reason is that the drivetrain Victors had a space allotted for them, whereas very little planning went into the placement for the others. Our cRIO is mounted on plywood, in front of our drivetrain CIMs, using screws.

Because all of the electronics are mounted on stuff that's very liable to transmit shock (physical shock, that is), we have shock mounts for all the electronics mounted with screws. For those shock mounts, we cut up a yoga mat (so if your parents ever tried and stopped doing yoga, you know what you can do with that yoga mat now!). For those electronics mounted with Velcro, no shock mount was necessary because the Velcro serves as a shock mount in itself.