Team's Drivers Station Ideas and CAD

[robocodepodcast]

Our team wants to build a drivers station for next season. We want to have a laptop and an external monitor in the set up. Are there any teams that would like to share their experiences, CAD, and lessons learned? Any help is appreciated in advance!

[David_IsMe]

I know Yeti 3506 has a cool driver station maybe @EHutson has a picture or has the contact for more info.

[holazola]

There are already many existing threads discussing driver station ideas.

Do an advanced search for “Driver Station” in title only. You will need to sort through topics discussing Driver Station software/ dashboard versus the Physical driver station, but it is not hard.

You could also search for “button board” and “joystick board” for more info.

EDIT: also “operator console” is the official description of the assemblage of laptop & various controllers. You will find many good examples with that search term.

[Mike_Schreiber]

Here’s a few, but this is not a full list of every thread on this topic.

Show Me Your Operator Station (Driver Station)

We saw some incredible driver stations this year during the competition. We want to redesign ours now. We would love to see some of your designs. We currently have the Andymark 36" station. We want to add XBOX controller holders with velco, a button box, and an integrated USB Hub. 36 in. Driver Station Tray - AndyMark, Inc Show me what you got!

Features you need while building a new driver station

the physical one

Driver Station

I was tasked with building our team with a new driver station and was wondering if anybody had any CAD models or ideas to get me started.

Physical Driver Station builds

We’re planning to create a sort of “board” with handles that we can carry around matches for competition this year. We’ve seen plenty of teams with a design like this, it holds the laptop, joystick and buttons or whatever other control system they might be using. If anyone has pictures or designs of their own teams, I’d love to see them.

Driver Station

Hello, we are in search of Driver station ideas. It would be of great help if you could send pictures of yours. Thank you.

[EHutson]

We do, we made it out of sheet metal with a laptop and a second display, wide enough for 2 people to use it side by side. The primary driver has 2 joysticks with a button on top and the secondary driver has the second display and 8 arcade buttons. I’ll grab a photo tomorrow, I am not sure if we have cad for it or not, It was made before I joined the team

[bovlb]

Remember that the “Operator Console” is subject to certain robot construction rules (R901–906) that will be checked during inspection. The two rules that people seem to forget most often are the maximum depth of 14" (R904B) and the prohibition on wireless communication (R905).