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General Updates

• Last flight test

  • Canceled from rain

  • Rescheduled to…to this saturday - Nov 16th

• This weeks flight test

  • Original (canceled) flight test thread https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1302702638466465872

  • This weeks: https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1305207222711877632

  • 2024-11-16 Houston Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG

  • Goals:

    • Test new camera, geolocation

    • Acquire image data for autonomy

    • Test tracking antenna (which didn’t work in the previous flight test attempt)

    • Potentially object detection testing

• Midterm board order

  • WENT OUT WOOOHOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉GOOD WORK EVERYONE

  • Bit of a hold up with one board but we chillin

  • REMAINING ACTION ITEMS

    • Please follow post ordering backup processhttps://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2699821117/Altium+Folder+Structure+EE+Project+Backups#Post-Ordering

    • Please prepare a Digikey list with all components needed still and put in Midterm PCB order channel https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1294169338508611646

      • everyone should come to friday’s worksesh to work on this together

      • Please follow this guide to complete your orderhttps://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2413232463/Digikey+Orders?search_id=c6086078-c13e-4a24-9fb1-6f9454d951ce&additional_analytics=queryHash---c94441e9f70ed96b342b03a82f285eb9754d768b99fc6abb8cb24250dbcfd892

    • If you need stuff from Digikey, now is the time to speak up so we can throw it on this order

      • Ria Prakash GPS?

  • Feedback on the process?

    • be more clear with deadlines and due dates

    • more frequent check-ins on boards that are part of the order

  • Current boards

    • Tracking antenna rev 2 - Ryan

    • 12->5V @ 4A buck - Kenny - Daniel

    • USB-C Sink - Kenny - Daniel

    • 24V->5V @ 5A buck - Robert - Kevin

    • 6S servo module rev 2 - Ian - Meghan

    • Water Controller - Shawn - Daniel

    • Unified Video System - Tom

    • Sensor Cluster - Michael -

    • straight can splitter - Daniel

    • programming conn adapter - Meghan

    • Led controller rev 4

• EE Workseshes - PMS Fill in

  • Todays (Wed Nov 13th)

    • creating harnessing and wiring RPi on Peggy 2

  • Friday’s (Nov 15th)

    • high current module stuff ?

    • digikey ordering - grind this out

• Farris and Kevin's knowledge sessions.

  • Farris posted a video and Kevin did/will do slides. Find these in #Electrical

  • Farris did it on FETs and Kevin on Bucks

• EE Social - Meghan Dang for details

  • Rat soup and games - Meghan's place - Friday @ 7pm

  • not real rats (maybe)

  • everyone meetup @ work sesh on friday! moved from 5-7pm to line up with social

• Comp/Eclipse sync

  • No eclipse sync.

  • Comp sync tmrw night (Thursday) @ 8pm

• Request from Mech - Don’t use gorilla tape on the drone. Use zip ties instead.

Reminders

• Please clean up after yourself

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

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

• If you are on a project and can use some help, reach out

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

• Missing GPS

  • probably gonna order

    

Board bring up Status

Please update test plans/board documentation!

Board Name	status	blockers	plan going forward
GPS Breakout	where are those gps boards	need to order new GPS boards Ria Prakash	https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Meetings/database/2752839681?entryId=e839dcd8-defc-42f1-8280-8e2c21fbeea5
Single Servo Driver	Buck and LDO confirmed to be working. Load and efficiency testing completed, looks good. Load transient testing in progress blocked by firmware people right now ..	Load transient testing → EFS Firmware testing	https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Meetings/database/2752839681?entryId=726878aa-bcb8-4728-9eed-18483cfb5c94

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6s Power Module	Both sides assembled Still needs some cleanup with connectors and AFE chips

Buck was validated somewhat last week, once cleanup is done, testing should be done on all 3

Need to validate the rest of board, checking for continuity and shorts

Some small rework fixes but mostly good to go for firmware

Needs firmware for other side to do voltage and current sensing using the AFE chips

Peggy 2/Comp Updates

• Jerry Tian For Peggy 2

• Did not make progress

• Tracking antenna, water controller on order

• Single servo on firmware

• This week working on pi harness

  • Giving out to pi rev c people

• make harness schem on tinycad

Eclipse Updates - Fixed Wing 2025 - SysInt - WARG (atlassian.net)

• The below boards should be included

  • 6S servo module rev 2 - On midterm order - assembly likely next term

  • Single Servo Driver - waiting on EFS

  • 6S power module - in validation Andrew Chai for details

    • POR for first flight of eclipse next term.

  • CAN Integration 2025

General Tasks

In order of priority. These are the active design projects.

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

  • Daniel Puratich Project Manager, Principle Hardware Engineer

  • Siddharth Muralikrishnan Anthony Lazar Anthony Luo Shawn Yang

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

  • Kenny Na Engineer

  • Daniel Puratich PM

• USB-C Sink - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Kenny Na

  • 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

• • Update: Handing off layout to Kenny Na !! Goal is done end of term

  • End of term target

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

  • Ethan Abraham Individual Contributor

  • Knowledge transfer done with Andrew Chai

  • Did initial placement for MCU + Power + Gate Driver

  • Will need to put more thought into FETs - most likely will require some cooling system since most FETs on Digikey within a reasonable price will not be able to handle the operation conditions at ambient temp

  • Will consult with Kevin and Ethan regarding further steps and some feedback on initial placement

  • End of term target

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

  • Nolan Haines Individual Contributor

  Sensor Cluster - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

• Michael Botros

https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2762014736/6S+Servo+Module+Rev+2?search_id=ce6b3b42-c848-496f-b919-ca6d20f18e93&additional_analytics=queryHash---51841482e71014cf72aabef4f129f657399f9d17a0f7ba284e3d3f3afaa8fe56

• Meghan Dang Individual Contributor

• Ian Van Den Steen for buck design and layout

(Rev 2) Tracking Antenna Controller Improvements (M3) - Electrical - WARG

• Ryan Scomazzonlayout is like 95% done, doing silkscreen and the final touches

• Fixed wing connector research (VBat, CAN, 5V)

  • Ryan Scomazzon

  • No progress - feel free to help ouy

• ELRS Gemini Testing/Rev 2

  • Ahmed Osman

• Water System Controller - Electrical - WARG

  • Daniel Puratich PM

  • Shawn Yang Engineering

• Straight CAN splitter

• Daniel Puratich

Programming Connector Adapter

• Meghan Dang

• LED Board Rev 4 - Electrical - WARG

  • Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

12V Input to 65W USB-PD Source - Electrical - WARG

• Ian Van Den Steen interested

• good to start soon

12V to 24V Boost Groundside Converter - Electrical - WARG

• Tim Gu interested

Potential new projects

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• look into application notes from TI for buck/boost PCB design

Action Items

• changing friday’s work sesh to 5-7pm

• announcement for social

  • where to meet

  • when it is

  • what we’re doing

• potential beginning of term order for next term → gauge readiness and amount of boards