2025:Controls

New Rules

• R907 *No AC inverters. OPERATOR CONSOLES must not contain AC inverters.
• The shelf also includes two clips to hold the shelf in place with a 1 in. (~25 mm) by 2 in. (~51 mm) thick tab that

Overall Concept

Dive Camera

         

Square Box (20" x 13.75"), One Handle on Each Side (8.5" Foam Grips ~1" round)

Pop Off Lid

Overall width: ~26"

Handles: 8.5" Foam Grips (Trim Down Later) with round 1" and 1.5" by 3/4" square stock

Lexan For Lens: 0.062 in Thick

Design Info

NOTE: laptop vent is on bottom of it, at back; so leave that area clear so air can flow out and go up the back of the box

Paint Scheme:

• Bottom Box with Square stock metal - Black
• Top - Black
• End and top caps for handles - Black
• Laptop stand - Red
• Controller Holders - Red
• Lens - Red

Width considerations:

• Should be less than 29.680in in Length due to the NEW Clips... clam shell may not be ideal
• Try to get to box width to be 24" instead of initial 28" thought

Use 'Giants of the Sea Font' from fontspace.com for cut outs.

Controllers - Logitech

Research options we did not use:

X-Box

Off-Brand PS

Controller Holder Starting Point

Magnet Latches

Handle Grip Material

How to make grips: drill hole in top half of square stock and inset the round 1" tube and have L3Harris model shop weld them together, then put foam over the round tube.

Research options we did not use:

Bike Handlebar Grips

Handlebar Foam

Foam Tube

To-Do

(Sami & Colin) - Tools and Game Test: 100% BOTH

Not Started

• MUST DO on 2/6 (requires base):
  • • Label Controllers
    • Make sure ALL cables have been managed
• Other:
  • • Collect and or make any spare parts (mostly cables)
    • Touch up any screw heads with black paint
• Things to think about:
  • • determine if something is going inside the camera lens (Byers idea: maybe cut a hole to see through it when holding it up)
    • Paper cover top (coral themed?) MUST fit laptop or be smaller (Eric can print and lamanate at work)
    • Cart attachment? - Chris Gill

In Process

• MUST DO on 2/6 (requires base):
  • • Finish Arduino Code (For LEDs)

Completed

• Beginning Steps
  • • Confirmed for three Logitech controllers
    • Collaborate and create ideas. Look at past Controls if needed.
    • Take measures of computer and controllers being used. Look at 2024 Controls.
• CAD/Assembly (in CAD)
  • • Bottom Box
      • • Increase height for controllers: 4.25"
        • Add notch for keyboard cutout
        • Square cutouts for the handles
        • PEM holes for laptop holder
        • Notches for the AC power and Ethernet bracket
        • PEM holes for controller holders
        • fish font
        • PEM Studs for magnets
          
        • Figure out what's broken with the controller holder assembly
        • Laptop Holder/Broken Switches (may just need to update drawings)
        • ReCAD the laptop holder
        • AC power and Ethernet bracket
        • Controller holder(s)
        • Words in Laptop holder: DIVE
        • Get controller spacing fixed
        • Finalize length: 20"
    • Top (thicker material .093)
      • • Fill cut out in front (Bend Radius: 0.032 in; Bend Reduction: -0.145)
        • Determine a method of keeping the top on the box - Will be doing the same method as Stronghold
          • • Find magnetic latches, get them on order. (Look in Design Info)
        • Camera Lens (Holes for screws, Lexan)
        • Camera grip/top opening (Holes for screws)
          
        • Flash (Holes for screws)
        • Holes for Camera Lens in top
        • Knob (Holes for screws, clicky thing)
    • Handles
      
      • • Cap for the top of the handles
        • End cap for the bottom of the handles
        • Fixed/ Added to the Handle Assembly
        • Finalize design for handles
          
        • Top Caps - create whole for button mounting
• Drawings
  • • Laptop Drawing
    • Top Drawing (and Submit)
• Final Assembly
  • • Picked paint scheme
      
    • Found Parts:
      • • AC receptacle, AC cable, RJ45 jack (NEEDS SOLDERED), broken switches, broken switch board, USB Hub, right angle USB adapters, Prototype Board, right angle Ethernet adapter
    • Order Parts:
      • • extension cord with multiple outlets, nano ardiuno
    • Reprint both handle Caps and Plugs in Red
    • Solder RJ45 Jack and Secure RJ45 Jack with approite secureness
    • Trim Wires on knob
    • Replace the termanel ends on broken switch things
    • Test broken switches
      
    • Magents:
      • • Found Nuts
        • Dremaled to Fit
        • Used Lexan as spacers
    • Velcro controllers and their holders
• Painting (3D pieces are NOT being painted):
  • • Black:
      • • Top
        • Bottom
    • Red:
      • • Laptop Holder
• While waiting for parts:
  
  • • Bits and Pieces:
      • • Locknuts for PEM Studs (Eric is getting them at work... with some other things)
        • Drill holes in tubes to fish wires through
          
        • Flash - Get plastic/lexan
          
        • Lens - Make lexan part
    • Wiring/Wire based:
      
      • • Add Wires to LED buttons
• While Test Fitting:
  • • Test Mounting:
      • Knob, Magnets, Laptop + Controller Holders, Power/Ethernet, Buttons to Handles, Grip, Flash, Lens, Caps + Plugs
    • Bits and Pieces:
      • • How many magnets will we be using???
        • Counter sink holes on top
        • Final Assembly:
          • • Bottom Box:
              • • Velcro Laptop
                • Mount Caps + Plugs, Laptop + Controller Holders
                • put on magnets on bottom; adjusting so top of top is flush/slight below bottom's edges
                • put in broken switches
                • Velcro broken switch board (under switches, right side)
                • Velcro USB hub (flat side to bottom of case, ports facing towards side of case; just under right side of laptop; connect to USB on right side of laptop, using a right-angle USB)
                • connect controller cables to USB hub (use cable tie mount to help it stay connected to hub)
                • Velcro extension (side attached to bottom of case, plug facing under the laptop; just under left side of laptop)
                • Velcro laptop power supply (under laptop; connect to extension cord)
                • Velcro Arduino board
                • Connect LEDs and handle switches to Arduino board
                • put in Power, connect right angle network cable to it (connects to laptop)
                • put in Ethernet, connect right angle network cable to it (connects to laptop)
                • Cable from Arduino to right side of laptop (use cable tie mount near board to help it stay connected; use right angle USB at laptop)
                  
                • cord management
                  
                • USB Thumb drive extension cord
                • Test Hub, control, controllers, and broken switches
            • Top Box:
              • • Mount Grip, Flash, Knob, Lens
                  
• Wiring:
  
  • • Make Arduino Board (see board layout below)
      
    • Add connectors to handle switch wires
      
    • 
      NOTE: the diagram is the top view, so take that into consideration when wiring

Meeting Minutes

1/4 (KICKOFF!) (Sat)

Attendees: Sami, Byers, Eric

Work Completed:

• Concept drawings started

1/5 (Sun)

Attendees: Sami, Byers, Eric

Meeting Minutes:

• Continued concept drawings
• Looked at NON-Wi-Fi controllers
• Created Wiki page
• Broke Wiki page
• FIXED Wiki page! :)
• Looked and took measures of the new clips on drivers station (see concept ideas)
• Added concepts

1/7 (Tue)

Attendees: Sami

Meeting Minutes:

Sub Team interest form was completed

Added to the To Do, Not Started, and In Process sections

1/8 (Wed)

Attendees: Sami

Meeting Minutes:

Since Sub Teams have not been decided yet, I worked on the Best RoBuddies SOP! :)

1/9 (Thu)

Attendees: Sami, Arlo, Colin, Eric, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

Looked at past controls

Discussed ideas for this year

Look at concepts for this year

Messed with OnShape

Moved 2015-2024 files into Controls Teams

1/11 (Sat)

Attendees: Sami, Colin, Arlo, Oliver, Eric, Byers, Sam

Meeting Minutes:

Continued the process of design on OnShape

Voted on concepts

started cad for bottom and top

Started cad for grip to take off lid

decided on Logitech controller

1/12 (Sun)

Attendees: Sami, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

Looked at controller holders

Looked at handles/ handle grips

Picked out grips with round stock

Picked out and described square stock

1/14 (Tue)

Attendees: Sami, Colin, Arlo, Byers, Eric, Charlie

Meeting Minutes:

Redesigned Controller holder and test printed

Put the handles in CAD

1/15 (Wed)

Attendees: Sami, Eric, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

Fixed and printed Controller Holder

Created Controller Holder Assembly

Continued working on controller holder

1/16 (Thu)

Attendees: Sami, Colin, Arlo

Meeting Minutes:

• Figure out what's broken with the controller holder assembly
• Cap for the top of the handles
• End cap for the bottom of the handles
  
• Increase height for controllers: 4.25"
• Top (thicker material .093)
• ReCAD the laptop holder
• Get controller spacing fixed (2.5" between controller and keep out zone)
• Finalize length: 23.75"
• AC power and Ethernet bracket
• Add notch for keyboard cutout

1/18 (Sat)

Attendees: Sami, Colin, Oliver, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

• End cap for the bottom of the handles
• Fixed/ Added to the Handle Assembly
• Square cutouts for the handles
  
• PEM holes for laptop holder
• Notches for the AC power and Ethernet bracket
• PEM holes for controller holders
• Found magnetic latches
• Laptop Holder/Broken Switches (may just need to update drawings)
• Controller holder(s)
• Determine a method of keeping the top on the box - Will be doing the same method as Stronghold
  • • Find magnetic latches, get them on order. (Look in Design Info)
      

1/19 (Sun)

Attendees: Sami, Byers, Colin, Eric

Meeting Minutes:

• Bottom box
  
  • • fish fonts with lots of fishy water fish
    • Words in Laptop holder: DIVE
• 🏆MILESTONE - HANDLES COMLETED🏆
  • • machined handle bar and pole in shop
    • drawings, except laptop tray, are done
    • 3d printed parts - perfecto
    • finished magnet integration with other components

1/21 (Tue)

Attendees: Sami, Colin, Arlo, Eric, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

Created/Refined more To - Do lists items

Cleaned up Wiki

Created Laptop drawing and flat pattern for Harris

Started items to put on top

Updating the camera lens

1/23 (Thu)

Attendees: Sami, Colin, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

Controllers, grips, and magnetic latches received - Grips very bent :(

Refined To - Do List

Refined Lens - Made ledge for 0.062 in thick lexan

Worked on Grip

found bend radius and reduction for 0.093 in

Started print for lens

Picked some color schemes

1/25 (Sat)

Attendees: Sami, Arlo, Byers, Colin

Meeting Minutes:

Drilled holes in lens

Fill cut out in front (Bend Radius: 0.032 in; Bend Reduction: -0.145)

PEM Studs for magnets

Top Caps - create whole for button mounting

Flash

Found Parts: AC receptacle, AC cable, RJ45 jack (NEEDS SOLDERED), broken switches, broken switch board, USB Hub, right angle USB adapters, Prototype Board, right angle Ethernet adapter

Camera Lens (Holes for screws)

Camera grip/top opening (Holes for screws)

Flash (Holes for screws)

Reprint both handle Caps and Plugs in Red

Order Parts: extension cord with multiple outlets, Arduino Nano

1/26 (Sun)

Attendees: Sami, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

• Holes for Camera Lens in top
• Knob (Holes for screws, clicky thing)
• Top Drawing (and Submit)
• Re - printed things from yesterday

1/28 (Tue)

Attendees: Sami, Colin, Oliver, Charlie, Byers, Eric

Meeting Minutes:

• Solder RJ45 Jack
• Trim Wires on knob
  
• Replace the terminal ends on broken switch things
• Test broken switches

1/29 (Wed)

Attendees: Sami, Eric, Gracie

Meeting Minutes:

• Fix and test broken switches
• Secure RJ45 Jack with appropriate secureness
• Found Nuts for Magnets
• Velcro controllers and their holders

1/30 (Thu)

Attendees: Sami, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

Added terminals to extension cord, tested, and labeled

Dremeled Magnets to Fit, Used Lexan as spacers for magnets

2/1 (Sat)

Attendees: Eric, Collin, Byers

Meeting Minutes:

• parts came in
• cut Lexan for lens
• test fit all the parts:
  • cut PEM studs on top & bottom for magnets
  • controller was hitting front magnet, drilled holes in controller holders to shift them a little towards the back
  • filled sharp edges on bottom
  • counter sunk holes for top parts and bottom for controller holders
  • drilled holes in handle tubes for button wires
• added a ground wire to the extension cord, and cut shrink wrap for it
• determined all 4 magnets should be fine
• discussed layout for Arduino board
• painted parts (laptop tray, top & bottom)

2/2 (Sun)

Attendees: Byers, Eric, Oliver

Meeting Minutes:

• soldered wire to LEDs and double-sided taped them to the bottom
• soldered wires to the handle buttons, mounted buttons, and ran wires through the handles
• glued flash's clear part and the camera lens
• determined general location for hub, power supply, extension cord, and Arduino board
• mounted:
  • power plug, extension cord, heated shrink wrap, attached ground wire
  • laptop tray
  • magnet 'bars' on the top
  • controller holders
  • foam grips
  • handle caps and ends
  • camera lens
  • flash
  • top handle
  • clicky knob
  • Velcro to laptop tray and the laptop

2/4 (Tue)

Attendees: Sami, Byers, Colin, Oliver, Arlo, Charlie

Meeting Minutes:

• Make Arduino Board
  
• Add connectors to handle switch wires
• put on magnets on bottom; adjusting so top of top is flush/slight below bottom's edges
• put in broken switches
• Velcro broken switch board (under switches, right side)
• Velcro USB hub (flat side to bottom of case, ports facing towards side of case; just under right side of laptop; connect to USB on right side of laptop, using a right-angle USB)
• connect controller cables to USB hub (use cable tie mount to help it stay connected to hub)
• Velcro extension (side attached to bottom of case, plug facing under the laptop; just under left side of laptop)
• Velcro laptop power supply (under laptop; connect to extension cord)
• Velcro Arduino board
• Connect LEDs and handle switches to Arduino board
• put in Power, connect right angle network cable to it (connects to laptop)

2/5 (Wed)

Attendees: Sami, Eric

Meeting Minutes:

• put in Ethernet, connect right angle network cable to it (connects to laptop)
• Cable from Arduino to right side of laptop (use cable tie mount near board to help it stay connected; use right angle USB at laptop)
  
• cord management
  
• USB Thumb drive extension cord
• Test Hub, control, controllers, and broken switches
• Finished Controls (expect for code)

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Controls Rules 2025

• 6.3.2 OPERATOR CONSOLES
  DRIVE TEAMS set up their OPERATOR CONSOLE as soon as the DRIVE TEAM from the previous MATCH has
  cleared the area. OPERATOR CONSOLES must be compliant with all relevant rules, specifically those in section
  8.9 OPERATOR CONSOLE. The OPERATOR CONSOLE is plugged into the team’s assigned DRIVER STATION, as
  indicated on the team sign. Any control devices worn or held by their HUMAN PLAYERS and/or DRIVERS during
  the MATCH must be disconnected from or set on or beside the OPERATOR CONSOLE before the MATCH can
  begin. A DRIVE TEAM obstructing or delaying OPERATOR CONSOLE setup is at risk of violating G301.
  For the purposes of FIRST Robotics Competition, any device connected to the
  OPERATOR CONSOLE is considered a control device because REFEREES are not
  expected to differentiate between devices that can or cannot control the ROBOT.
• R904 *OPERATOR CONSOLE physical requirements. The OPERATOR CONSOLE must not

1. be longer than 5 ft. (~152 cm), B. be deeper than 1 ft. 2 in. (~35 cm) (excluding any items that are held or worn by the DRIVERS
   during the MATCH),
   C. extend more than 6 ft. 6 in. (~198 cm) above the floor, or
   D. attach to the FIELD (except via the loop tape as described in section 5.6.1 DRIVER STATIONS).
   There is a 4 ft. 6 in. (~137 cm) long by 2 in. (nominal) wide strip of hook-and-loop
   tape (“loop” side) along the center of the DRIVER STATION support shelf that
   should be used to secure the OPERATOR CONSOLE to the shelf. See section
   5.6.1 DRIVER STATIONS for details.
   Please note that while there is no hard weight limit, OPERATOR CONSOLES that
   weigh more than 30 lbs. (~13 kg.) will invite extra scrutiny as they are likely to
   present unsafe circumstances. 

• R907 *No AC inverters. OPERATOR CONSOLES must not contain AC inverters

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