Good looking driver staions

[Darth Drew]

In the past we've only had driver stations that look like yours, a laptop, joysticks, and jumbled wires, but this year we're looking into ordering an arcade game box with a joystick and some buttons on each side and space to mount our laptop in the middle.

[gabrielau23]

Here's 2537's driver station....It's at the bottom:


and another view...


Personally, I think it's a pretty cool Driver Station...

[Peyton Yeung]

I made our O/I this year out of poly carbonate and aluminum angle. I turned out pretty nice and it is pretty flashy. It's light and it fits all our stuff.

[Ernst]

1732's driver station last year looked like this. I really liked it. It was easy to build, had cool blue lights, and we'll be able to use it again this year just by swapping off the button panel for a new one.

[s_forbes]

My all time favorite is definitely this one, which we built in 2008. It is the most compact that I've seen in person, but it would be difficult to fit all of the newer OI components + controllers into that stylin' box.

[Botwoon]

Here's what the Robonauts used for the 2012 season. It's by far and away the best one I've ever seen.

[THE DYNAMO]

Our driver's station since the team was started in 2009 has been an stained, ironclad wooden box made by a team member. It has words burned into the side in the runic scandinavian alphabet. on a side note, it weighs about 35 pounds and has sharp, rusty corners that dig into your thihgs when you carry it by the ropes. but I would never pass it up for the world, do to the epic factor.

will post a picture tomorrow.

[ToddF]

We went scouting out driver's stations at IROC this year. We were particularly impressed with 2537's bling factor:




We liked the compactness and simplicity of 1262's:


We liked how 116 did the controls for the operator side:

[Teamcodeorange]

There are many ways to make a good-looking driver's station. Whatever you choose, I advise you keep it light. Someone is going to have to carry it around for hours. That isn't fun when your driver's station weighs 20 lbs.

[cmrnpizzo14]

Originally Posted by JCharlton

I have to post a link to ours from last year, I'm incredibly proud of the students who built it so lovingly.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/37981

One design feature of note is separating the driver and operator console. Made it a lot easier to carry and store than a big monolithic one.

You can also see our bot in the corner, and me with the flame pants in the back

This was the best looking driver station that I saw last year. This is ours. It is both good looking and functional. We used a black briefcase from a thrift shop that we mounted the classmate inside and stored our gamepad inside. On the outside, we painted the team logo on one side and velcroed the joysticks to the other.

When we got to the field, our driver would just lift off the lid and set it up off to the side. The operator would open up the classmate and pull out his gamepad and we were set to go.

It also matched our fedoras......

EDIT: Posted a picture of it, sorry it is small and not at a great angle.

[cadandcookies]

As a previous member of my team's drive team, and on behalf of yours, I beg of you to, if you aren't the drive team yourself, at the very least consult with them before you build anything, and take into consideration any concerns they may have. This last year we made a beautiful station our of polycarb and 80/20, but the thing weighed like, 20 pounds. It was painful to carry it around all day, as we didn't even have a place on our cart for it.

It's been stated so many times now, but keep it light! (Now that I think about that, it applies to just about everything in FRC)

Then again, if your drivers are willing to put up with lugging around the kitchen sink, by all means indulge them. I'm sure they'll reconsider next year though.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by sentientfungus

Then again, if your drivers are willing to put up with lugging around the kitchen sink, by all means indulge them. I'm sure they'll reconsider next year though.

Well with the robot doing all the sports, where am I supposed to get my daily work out in?

[Gray Adams]

Originally Posted by sentientfungus

Then again, if your drivers are willing to put up with lugging around the kitchen sink, by all means indulge them. I'm sure they'll reconsider next year though.

I actually didn't mind carrying a huge console around. Its 10x better than scrambling to set up joysticks and plug everything in properly. You can't do a whole lot of things when you have 2-3 full size joysticks, so keeping everything solidly attached in place as long as the weight is low works out ok.

But if your drivers like gamepads then it would be crazy to make a full size station.

[Jeff Faust]

Originally Posted by JCharlton

I have to post a link to ours from last year, I'm incredibly proud of the students who built it so lovingly.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/37981

One design feature of note is separating the driver and operator console. Made it a lot easier to carry and store than a big monolithic one.

I loved 296's driver station so much when I saw it in St. Louis that I asked team members to pose with it.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...d=13589052 20

[jediptm]

Saw this on the web today and couldn't help but think about driver's stations. Once again, probably not practical, but wow would it be cool!!!!

http://gizmodo.com/5977732/awesome-5...e-the-real-one