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Online

Jerry Tian

Ryan Scomazzon

Daniel Puratich

Nathan Green

Kenny Na

Ahmed Osman

Shawn Yang

Andrew Chai

Sam Zhang

Tim Gu

Robert Tang

Meghan Dang

Megan Spee

Georgia Westerlund

Ryan Chen

Ethan Abraham

Ian Van Den Steen

Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

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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!

  • Another test next Saturday:

  • Competition Architecture Sync: weekly Thursday at 8 PM in E5 2103.

  • Fixed Wing Architecture Sync is on every other Wednesday at 8 PM in E5 2103

    • More on fixed wing below

  • Successful Work session!

    • ESC Can Adapter assembly 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 @11AM in the bay

    • Plan:

      • Assemble LED boards

      • Assemble RPi Rev B board

      • Validate tracking antenna

  • 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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  • R&D Project

  • First meeting of the term this week

  • Board updates avoabove

Bootcamp Updates

  • Congratulations to Ahmed Osman and Sam Zhang for completing the bootcamp!!

  • Minor changes for future bootcampers:

    • Reviews will now be conducted over discord voice chat and are meant to serve as a discussion about the boards design and possible improvements

    • Please ping Parker Lawrence-Valeriani when you’re ready for review (smile)

  • Feel free to send any questions you may have!

  • Best of luck!!

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Potential new project: Test Automation

  • Needs Assessment (comparing to the manual test procedure we have rn):

    • 1. characterize our custom buck converter’s performance.

    • 2. understand our designs more, help ee members learn

      • Load transient test is helpful on identifying issues if downstream board is brownout during flight test

      • Knowing efficiency of the bucks

    • 3. efs running out of work to do

Potential new project: Test Automationdocument pegasus harness diagram

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  • connector part numbers

  • wire lengths

  • wire guage

  • good for new members to learn about our system

Action Items

This section is here for completeness. If a new task is assigned in a meeting, it will be added here.

  • order 28 or 30 gauge wire

  • order thinner solder