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Check out Conops for AEAC! Get involved in comp syncs for discussion https://www.aerialevolution.ca/annual-student-competition/
We decided to not do SUAS since it costs time, manpower, money, late conops.
Summary
Happening May 9-11 in Medicine Hat, Alberta
Aiming to do a full simulation Nov 8
Phase one January 15
Phase 1 Proposal, 2 is competition
Task 1
Detect a fire in the distance (red balloons ), Identify hotspots (IR beacons), Visually identify what started the fire
Task 2
Transport water from a source tank to the locations of the fire hotspots and deposit
Successful Flight test on Saturday!
https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1281721899906367519
First flight on new drone!
Big step since made changes without testing.
Some hiccups but they got ironed out.
Another test next Saturday:
Range/Speed test: https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1287116296609202336
Obstacle avoidance test: https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1283890207287935018
Lots of prep for these, get involved in the threads above if interested
Usually in mornings
Competition Architecture Sync: weekly Thursday at 8 PM in E5 2103.
Last competition sync: 2024-09-18 Comp Arch Sync - Meetings - WARG (atlassian.net)
Fixed Wing Architecture Sync is on every other Wednesday at 8 PM in E5 2103
More on fixed wing below
Successful Work session!
ESC Can Adapter assembly done!
just some validation left
checking for shorts
checking LDO pwr
Tracking antenna assembly mostly done
validating buck
fixing efuses
Work session next week Sunday @11AM in the bay
Plan:
Assemble LED boardsValidate ESC Can adapter
Assemble RPi Rev B board
EFS workshops:
Not directly EE but still can be useful
Sept 30th: Datasheets and Protocols, led by Sahil Kale
Oct 7th: Job Search & Interview Strategy, co-led by Christopher Chung and Sahil Kale
Chris is an EE advisor
All workshops will take place from 8pm to 10pm in E7 5353
Lack of pilots next term - Reach out if off stream and interested
Consider the commitment.
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Order IR filter Ryan Scomazzon by
doesn’t solve
need new solution
Install video system Jerry Tian by
after this weekend’s flight test
Bring-up lightning boards
this weekend
Bring-up rpi rev b boards
this weekend
Installing PCBs
next Friday
Fixed Wing Updates - Fixed Wing 2025 - SysInt - WARG (atlassian.net)
R&D Project
First meeting of the term this week
Board updates belowavo
Bootcamp Updates
Congratulations to Ahmed Osman and Sam Zhang for completing the bootcamp!!
Minor changes for future bootcampers:
Reviews will now be conducted over discord voice chat and are meant to serve as a discussion about the boards design and possible improvements
Please ping Parker Lawrence-Valeriani when you’re ready for review
Feel free to send any questions you may have!
Best of luck!!
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