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Agenda

• Introductions

• Info about the team and goals for this term

• General updates for this week

• Flight test

• Reminders

• Competition updates

• Eclipse (fixed wing updates)

• Project updates

Attendance

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Our competition

• May 9-11

• Fire fighting themed

• Task 1 is mapping ir hotspots

• Task 2 is dropping water in buckets

• Comp syncs Mondays at 9

• Check out Conops for AEAC! Get involved in comp syncs for discussion https://www.aerialevolution.ca/annual-student-competition/

Why joining WARG EE is a good idea?

• Great mentorship

• WARG is well run

• Testimonies

Project Goals this Term:

• Entire Eclipse electrical system

  • Trying to get people super involved in the system

  • Gonna be super fun getting involved

• Peggy payloadTracking antenna hybrid board

• Ongoing boards (more later)

• New project/programprograms?

  • Tracking antenna hybrid board

  • Custom battery, PDB, ESC?

• Continued work on LED board program?

• Continued work on current boards

• Plan for doing boards: Main person PM, smaller tasks

General Updates

• Leads:

  • Ryan Scomazzon (onsite)

  • Meghan Dang (offsite)

• Project managers

  • Kenny Na : Eclipse PM

  • Nolan Haines Ahmed Osman : Tracking antenna w ELRS

  • Andrew Chai (offsite) TBD

  • If you have been around for a term or so and are interested in being PM, reach out and we can get you involved! Could be higher commitment or just leading a bigger project.

    • We got lots we can do

    • https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlnJ_8qERK-dMn1dJnIofYSJUNzUxRjc2T1BOWFI4U1ZSUlgyMDBBSFRHNy4u feedback/leadership interest

• Meeting times

  • How does this time work?

  • Not too late to fill out https://lettucemeet.com/l/ROLvD

• Work sessions

  • We typically do work sessions for things like harnessing and creating PCBAs

  • Probably wont start until next week

  • What times work for everyone? After flight tests?

  • https://lettucemeet.com/l/n7AK5

    • Note this is a time that will reoccur weekly

    • Might not do every week depending on interest and what needs to be done.

• Competition Interest Form

  • https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlohH8WBFXHtOjCR7Pcx0oF1UQzFXMFFCSU4xNk5LUTc4RVZMNkRYOEZSTS4u

  • This MUST be considered if you want to go to competition

  • Comp is fun and I am jealous I didn't go last year.

  • We can only bring 10 people so we definitely can’t bring everyone

  • Wont hurt to fill out anyways.

• Start of board order

  • Date pending

  • Driven by Meghan Dang

  • Thoughts from people here?

• Pick&Place machine

  • This exists in the SDC

  • No one is using it

  • Sahil was told he can use it if he wants to set it up

  • Since it is just collecting dust, we can probably convince them to take it

  • Needs someone who cares enough to drive it though

Flight Test

• What is a flight test?

• Where do we go?

  • WRESTRC

• Not mandatory but cool to see the drone in action.

• Planned to be on Sundays this term

• Last flight test

  • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1306721339750613063

  • 2024-12-14 Pegasus 2 Manual Piloting Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG

  • Plan was to test system for competition task 2

  • Found our planned landing solution would be too risky

    • Tuning was less stable than expected

  • Water tank was leaky

    • Mech problem, they are working on it

  • Batteries sagged too much in the cold. Hard for autonomy to collect cluster data.

    • Gonna have to find a solution for future flight tests

• Next flight test

  • January 19th (This Sunday)

  • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1326631979805966432

  • 2025-1-19 Autonomy Flight test - Flight Tests - WARG

  • Plan:

    • Autonomy cluster estimation test

Reminders

• Don’t forget to fill out the team roster: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D

• Make sure to clean up after yourself

• Get the electronsite role if on site - reach out to Ryan Scomazzon if you have issues

• Competition syncs Mondays at 9pm

• Eclipse sync Tuesdays at 8pm

• Reach out if you need help on a project or bootcamp

• Recruit your friends!

  • More fun with friends

  • If you like the team, then we can do even more with more people!

Pegasus/Competition Updates

• Brief overview of competition tasks

• Last term the plan was to land on the barrel

• At the end of term flight test, we realized the tuning is not reliable enough for this and if the drone clips the barrel, its ggs

• Now we will be doing a winch that lowers the pump

• A new pump is needed, servo will likely be controlled by Pixhawk. Worst case we do an single servo driver

• 1-2 servos needed

• If someone wants to help with this you are welcome

Eclipse Updates

Project Updates

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Water System Controller rev 2 - Electrical - WARG Shawn Yang

• Motivation:

Action Items

• Look into Pix current limits