🍍 Updates this week!

Admin

• No work session this weekend

• Push wiring diagram project (we want to start assembling electrical at end of the term/beginning of next term)

• Need 1-2 people who will be onsite next term to represent WARG EE at the Engineering Orientation on September 7th from 5-7pm

• Last EE meeting for the term

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Zen, Chris)

Updated 12V buck based on feedback. Finished component selection for 5V buck.

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

• Sourcing buck components

• Onboarded Saksham onto project

• Chris has symbols and footprints that need a review, Ethan will get on this

• Board 100% isn’t being completed this term. Realistic is that we’re ordering by end of Sept, assembling and bring-up will go to mid-Oct, and then integrating with FOC firmware will be late next term and will carry into Winter term

6S ESC (Mena, Rayyan)

• Rayyan: Continuing to go through datasheets to source passives

• Mena: Shifting focus on drone wiring for now

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

Finalizing the block diagram tonight.

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

• Michael

  • No real progress this week from me

• Farris

  • Layout grind, placement done and a lot of routing done, mainly the more complicated parts (RF, power, ESP fanout)

  • Responded to Daniel Puratich's comments & suggestions, will have to follow up on some of those action items though

PDB (Tom)

• Michael Botros needs to check in with Tom

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Rukshi)

12S Servo Module (Stanley, Jack, Jerry)

• Stanley: Selected new input capacitors, added new components to to Altium project, (had to download and modify footprints for Al poly, and 2220 caps, please look over them)

• Jack: Working on sourcing TVS diode for overcurrent protection boards

Bootcamper Progress Updates

• No bootcampers currently