Competing in a Regional Soon ? - Watch out

[pilleya]

Originally Posted by Jaci

It seems like a simple fix to this would be to just put a 'lip' on the driver station's bench, so that if it does get hit, the laptop stops at the lip instead of falling off completely.

Velcro is good, yes, but there's not a chance in hell I'm sticking a big piece of velcro to the bottom of my laptop...

It would need to be substantial lip for this to be effective. A 150 pound robot potentially travelling 15+fps can transfer a lot of energy when it impacts something.

Most teams opt to use a driver console, to which the laptop+joysticks etc. are attached, this then has the velcro on the bottom of it. If a driver console was used, you could use another method to attach the laptop to it which would be less likely to leave a sticky residue if this is what your concerned about, or change out the nice laptop for one you don't care about as much.