Screws, Tape, and other Electronic securities

[gracie.]

Just the idea of taping on the cRIO makes me nervous, but maybe for no reason, since it sounds like the tape you guys are using is pretty hardcore stuff.

We usually screw everything down and velcro the wireless bridge (and anything that gets changed around at competition). I'd swap the quicker removal of velcro for the security of screws any day. This year we got the opportunity to laser-cut our board our of plastic~! (.25" ABS to be specific) We pounded threaded inserts into the lasered holes, and screwed in the electronics that way. It was great!!! But a word of advice if you try it: super glue your inserts in addition to pressing them in. You won't regret it later when you're trying to remove your electronics
on a side note- a really cool thing we got to do with the laser cutter was raster labels for all the components. Completely unnecessary, but really cool.