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Directors would like status updates and timelines from EE Leads for the following topics.active projects.

• walking through most of them below

What micro and CAN transceiver is selected to commonize for our projects?

• Do we all agree on conclusion in 2024-05-17 EFS Director Sync ?

What is timeline for ZP HW readiness for EFS M2?

• boards are one side done but only half way,

• Friday will assemble the rest to give to EFS

Nice to have Daniel Puratich write / record a video on Altium shortcuts

• t g a repour polygons

• e e a deselect all

• shift s to show only this layer

• ctrl scroll wheel change layer instead of clicking

• space bar to rotate

• shift space to change corner style (for schem and pcb lines) (for rounding edges)

• e a paste special (paste on current layer)

• ctrl w place wire

• x and y

• ctrl f flip board

• selection filter

• will throw in backlog as a task

  • soldering guide → find one online?

  • crimping stuff

  • altium shortcuts guide

What do directors think about some new tasks on writing automated test scripts?

• Why?

• We don’t do a lot of testing

• Would be nice to have automated testing

• would help with RCA: Fried Boards

• we need to get some hardware: weef plus sponsors list

• wait till fall to push this, Jerry will drive when onsite

Status and Timeline for all projects in 2024-05-16 Electrical Director Sync

• High Priority Projects

  • intended for our upcoming system plans for 2025 comp cycle

  • at least one person should be actively driving for all these projects

  • Servo Module Improvements

    • no progress recently

    • there are no people to work on this right now

    • difficult project

    • more senior member project for validation here

  • Unified Video System

    • Tom is on this

    • progress is happening here

  • LED Board Rev 2

  • Tracking Antenna Controller Improvements

    • Tracking Antenna Long Term Vision

    • Ryan is on this, wanted to work on this

    • test circuits on Michael’s board for STM32 tracking ant board

    • copy over as much as possible

  • ZP3 End Goal

    • Ryan is on this

    • assembled?

    • get EFS testing if it’s done

  • Sensor Cluster

    • Michael is working on

    • unsure on timeline for this

• Medium Priority Projects

  • long term usable but not planned on included for 2025 comp cycle

  • ESC CAN Adapter

    • ESC specific

  • GPS CAN Adapter

    • Omar

    • progress is happening here, design is early on

  • 12V->5V @ 5A Buck Converter Board

    • new buck ic

    • output connectors

  • 48V->12V,8V,5V @ 3A BEC (Buck Converter)

    • layout nearly done?

  • ELRS Quadversity

    • component selection is done

    • having first rev be easier to debug

  • ELRS Gemini Rev B

    • lower priority but worth doing

    • unassigned

• Low Priority Projects

  • these aren’t useful currently but are still being pursued I guess

  • RCA: Fried Boards

    • nobody pursuing right now

    • might be interesting

    • issue is hard to recreate which makes debug difficult

  • High Current Power Module

    • needs to be assembled

    • leaving unassigned for now

  • 5V USB - 24V @0.25A Boost Converter

    • seems far away

    • leave him on it as a learning thing?

  • 6S ESC

    • Mostafa, letting him finish it, need to talk to EFS here

  • Cell Monitor ←

    • custom battery just isn’t scoped yet

  • Smoke Stopper

    • assigned, worth shifting resources away from this

    • extremely low priority

• Stalled Projects with no further progress happening for this term

  • Bay Automation

  • 24V->12V,5V @ 2A Buck Converter BoardSmoke Stopper

  • Zeropilot 4.0 Hardware (ZP4HW) stalled

  • 12S PDB ← easily done COTS, stalled, took tom off of this

  • Drone Power Routing Board ← not viable conceptually

  • 4S ESC stalled

  • 12S ESC stalled

  • Small CAN Magnetometer ← easily done COTS

Review EE support anticipated for team programs

• 2024-2025 Program Outline

• Big Quad 2025

• Fixed Wing 2025

• You’ll notice all the high priority projects are directly relevant for this!!

• Having some EE members involved in the architecture syncs will help people understand the system

Time Stuff

• no notes.