Rules Question

[MrRoboSteve]

You want these easily visible to someone standing outside the robot:

roboRIO lights
radio lights

Why? If you're having connectivity problems, they provide useful information to the field staff to help your robot get connected. They will generally not touch your robot as part of the troubleshooting process. During practice matches, there's more time to call your drive team out to the field to remove covers, etc, to do troubleshooting. Not so much on Saturday morning, particularly if matches are running behind.

It helps your team troubleshoot if the other active components of the control system (PDP, PCM, VRM, motor controllers) are visible. It's OK to have them under an easily-removed cover (meaning tool free removal). Don't bury them in locations that require disassembly of the robot.

This is probably a good place to remind teams of preferred radio locations:

. higher is better than lower
. don't mount it under a metal plate