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Attendance

General Updates

• 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

  • 2024-09-21 Pegasus 2 Maiden Flight

  • 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 @11PM @11AM in the bay

  • Plan:

    • Assemble LED boards

    • Validate ESC Can adapter

• 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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In order of priority.

• CAN DSHOT Controller

  • ESC CAN Adapter Test Plan

  • need to deliver to EFS to test the CAN circuit

  • when will this be ready

• Tracking Ant Controller

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/CQA7ow

  • need to deliver to EFS immediately

• RPi Interface Rev B

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BoAwow

  • need to deliver, ideally done this weekend so autonomy can test before next weekend

  • Daniel will participate in session for sure but would be nice if someone here to PM

• Peggy 2 Lighting Board Rev 3

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BYAzow

  • validate CAN circuit with CAN DSHOT Controller before assembling this

  • let’s assemble the bottom side this weekend?

  • other side need to wait for LCSC order

  • Daniel will participate in session for sure but would be nice if someone here to PM

• Single Servo Module

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/HgA4ow

  • for fixed wing, assemble before midterms

• 6S Servo Module

  • 6S Servo Module Test Plan

  • for fixed wing, assemble before midterms

• 12S Servo Module - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Jerry Tian

  • On hold to focus on comp critical Peggy 2 tasks.

  • Status update:

    • 2nd board is not seeing any voltage on buck vout, while 1st board was fine.

    • would like to run battery inrush test at Vin, see Efuse and Battery Inrush test plan

    • most likely is my soldering skill issue, feel free to take a look if you’re interested

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• RPi Interface Rev C - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Daniel Puratich Project Manager, Principle Hardware Engineer

  • Siddharth Muralikrishnan Ahmed Osman Anthony Lazar Anthony Luo

  • LTE Breakout - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

    • Canceled, now part of RPi Interface Rev C - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • green tasks need to be done → need a lot of new components for this board, anyone is welcome to take them, but I actually need these done

• 12V -> 5V @ 4A Buck Converter + ELRS Board - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Kenny NaEngineer

  • Daniel Puratich PM

• 24V->5V @ 5 A Buck Converter Board - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Robert TangEngineer

  • Kevin Li PM

• Unified Video System - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Tom Chiu Individual Contributor

• 12S ESC - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Ethan Abraham Individual Contributor

  • Finalizing schematic

  • Pending items

    • Source and implement oscillator

    • Source and implement 60V TVS diode

    • Discuss/confirm DSHOT/programming connector interfaces

• ELRS Redundant Diversity RX - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Nolan Haines Individual Contributor

• where is Michael Botros's board?

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