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• Wing Manufacturing Concerns

  • Evan

    • Depending on challenge of manufacturing the wings, crashes could be very detrimental in having to do repairs

    • Will learn more about MonoKote as we use it more, which will give us a greater understanding of the positives and negatives of this method

    • WatArrow already did a lot of the trial and error and shifted to foam and carbon fiber tube (from meeting Nathaniel Li had with them)

    • If we aren’t able to successfully manufacture the wings using current method, do we want a backup option that could be done?

      • Nathaniel’s thoughts:

        • Having a backup in mind is good, lots to choose from like fabric and foam board so we’d continue using the same ribs

          • Oratex is a fabric with adhesive (apply similarly to MonoKote) but doesn’t shrink as much so manufacturing might be easier

  • Nathaniel

    • Emailed wat arrow to borrow their iron, i believe it is in the bay now but haven’t gotten a chance to go and take a look

      • Keep this in the back shelf against wall right shelf bottom right corner next to / behind the power supplies

      • Trial (after midterms?) using 3 ribs → Do in bay

• Wing design

  • Nathaniel

    • Ailerons

      • 2 designs I will be reviewing

    • LE and TE covers

      • 3d prints will most likely melt when applying MonoKote, looking into a balsa piece instead

    • Tasks for spar weight saving, GPS mounting and pitot tube mounting at mech meeting

• Empennage

  • Image Added

  • Horizontal stabilizer done. Vertical stabilizer and elevator in progress.

  • Designing a ‘junction’ to which the HT and VT will attach to. 2 dowel rods for each HT and VT.

  • May need to revisit thoughts on a steerable rear wheel

    • Joshua (watarrow lead) said steerable rear wheel is kind of troll because when a tail dragger reaches high speeds on the ground, the tail lifts up a little due to lift generated in the wings

      • I believe he said they are going to try to make the front landing gear steerable

    • this means rear wheel will not be in contact w/ the ground, rendering a controllable rear wheel useless. If this is the case then it’s probably not worth the effort to make a steerable landing gear

• Final mech designed review to be conducted on November 2, 2024 before manufacturing starts

  • Either the 2nd or 9th but planning for the 2nd.

Avionics

• Required Boards

  • 6S Servo Module Status

    • making new rev for midterm board order

    • Rev 1 does not work due to buck design issues

    • unable to validate PWR and firmware

    • EFS reviewed pinout, will implement changes on Rev 2

  • Single Servo Driver Status

    • both sides assembled

      • one side needs rework for neopixels

    • will validate power sometime this week, else after midterms.

• Optional Boards Status

  • 6S Power Module

    • not yet assembled

    • Not priority, new revs on midterm order for tracking antenna first.

  • Redundant Pixhawk Power Supply

    • Almost done routing, getting eyes on it from Kevin, full review soon

    • On track for midterm board order (Tentative Nov 1)

• Firmware Status

  • Have we successfully flashed things with AP_PERIPH?

  • Will the eclipse boards be faced with the PB0 challenges as well?

    • Firmware needs to request changes now if they’re needed.

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