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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: 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 Wednesday at 8 PM in E5 2103
More on fixed wing below
Successful Work session!
ESC Can Adapter assembly almost 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 @1PM @11PM in the bay
Plan: TODO
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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Board Name | status | blockers | plan going forward |
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Tracking antenna | assembled SMT components on 2 boards |
| continue debugging and document process |
ESC CAN | Assembled SMT components on all 5 boards Resoldered some components that did not reflow well/had some minor issues (mainly the STM32) | EFS needs to do testing to confirm full validation of the board BM06 Connectors not in yet, need these to program the boards | Validate EE side of things - testing for shorts, continuity, etc |
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