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Attendance

General Updates

• NO MEETINGS OVER READING WEEK

• Do we want meetings over exam week?

  • Let not do it

• Do we want work sessions over reading/exam week?

• BEWARE OF SCAMS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

  • WARG leadership will NEVER ask you for money or gift cards

  • Report potential scams by pinging directors inhttps://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1338629108434735175

• Lead Nomination form !

  • Last onsite lead term for Ryan Scomazzon

  • https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlnJ_8qERK-dMn1dJnIofYSJUQkJYNERBRVVWOEUwNDJRU05UVDVRRUdIQi4u

  • We are going to start onboarding looking for a new lead and will start discussing it after midterms, please fill out this form by Friday, February 28th March 7th @ 11:59pm EST to nominate a peer that you think would be a good fit! nominating yourself is heavily encouraged if you’re interested in becoming a lead!

  • Even if you don't think you are ready now, its good to know interest for the future!

  • Please read through these docs for more information

    • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AD/pages/2584969280/Lead+Promotion+Process?search_id=7a5e4af7-677c-4f80-806f-33c6de27b0ab&additional_analytics=queryHash---e3456bc1f4d270f4a97933758645fdc21e39642b31ca343c1818f7972ac27906

    • Subteam Lead Promotion Criteria

  • We will talk with every person who self nominates + anyone else who we see fit from nominations

• Weef wishlist

  • What do we need?

  • Engsoc was due this monday, submitted and asked for solder and flux (engsoc only allows consumables)

  • WEEF is due early march; so far we have:

    • storage shelf/boxes

      • will ask Graeme about removing whiteboard behind ee tables

    • PCBA funds

    • hardware tools

      • more wire strippers

      • more solder wick

    • please add more if you think of anything!

• WARG Jackets colour has been changed to dark gray because they were out of black in selected sizes…

  • anyone have major issues with this?

• Work sessions

  • Tuesdays @ 6pm

    • Rework 6s servo

      • Switch resistor divider

    • Assemble LED board spares

    • Validate SSD

    • LED rev 4

  • Saturdays @ 3pm

  • Gonna have to start splitting harnessing and PCB bring up

  • More people would be hype as we start doing more

  • Adding an additional work session in the week for harnessing?

    • Leadership can split who runs them if it is too much for one person?

    • Kenny Na maybe can do a lettucemeet

• Early term board order

  • Kenny Na

  • Sarah has been away from office

  • Meghan sent out an email this morning, any no updates from her?

• Pick&Place machine

  moved to bay

  • Still not in the bay

  • I sent a follow-up too

• We got a funding account for batteries soon

  • Anyone have ideas for how to spend it?

  • Sam Zhang ?

  • Discuss here https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1339048423856541726

• EE Social Planning?

  • Game night sounds pretty epic

  • Snowball fight?

Flight Tests

• Last flight test

  • February 8th

  • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1336370633952723056

  • 2025-2-8 Autonomy Flight test (CANCELLED)

  • Plan: Cluster estimation

  • Comp roster people should be at these now

  • cancelled due to insufficient ground testing, moved to next flight test

• Next flight test

  • Feb 15th

  • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1338367711578951680

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FT/pages/3005579265/2025-2-15+Autonomy+Flight+Test

  • Plan:

    • test autonomy system

    • detect target for IR beacons

    • run autotune for tuning airframe

    • Solid chance it gets cancelled due to snow

Reminders

• Use LCSC components on new boards (Ideally from the JLC library)

• TURN OFF DMMs WHEN DONE please!

• 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

• Tracking antenna meetings

  • Sunday 2pm

• 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

• EFS tested LED boards. All but one work. We need to fix that and making spares would be nice.

  • Reflowing did not fix. Worth replacing the STM

  • The transceiver seems to work. RX looks good on the scope, TX doesn't.

    • Talk to Derek Tang or Ryan Scomazzon for details

Eclipse Updates

• Found an SSD (it works)

• We need another, we have some that aren't validated.

• Spares are nice too

• 6S servo updates

• Tim Gu hopefully on track to getting harnessing done by Feb 15th

  • Still on track

  • Needs to figure out wire gauges

  • Doesn't know how much current ssd and 6s servo uses

    • 6S servo 4A max

    • 1A SSD

Eclipse Power & Can Splitter Harness

Going for a top-down approach for a harness schematic, high-level block diagram is done

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TinyCad drawing is in progress Tim Gu

Project Updates

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

PDB Andrew Chai Chenxuan Yuan Kenny Na Megan Lee Santosh Erathasari

• Power Distribution Board (PDB) - Unarchived

• not much progress from last week

• mostly finished block diagram

• Some reshuffling of tasks and architecture

• meeting this week, will sound out lettuce meet after meeting

• got an approx power budget

• Could be quite expensive…

BMS Andrew Chai Sam Zhang Chenxuan Yuan Arsalan Nasrifar

• Will schedule meeting imminently

RPi Interface Rev C - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net) Kenny Na Daniel Puratich

• in order

12S ESC - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net) Ethan Abraham& Andrew Chai

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• what is this needed for? do we want to spend funds assembling this? ping kevin for architectural info

• Would be nice do validate this before we make the PDB so we can use it there

• No rush for now

• Higher priority things to work on

3S ESC Kenny Na Santosh Erathasari Megan Lee Magnus Scott

• stalled, need help with sensing

• take a look at reference designs

Tracking Antenna Controller w ELRSAhmed OsmanNolan Haines

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

• been spending time on eclipse harnessing, haven’t had the chance to do further research on this

Water System Controller rev 2 - Electrical - WARG Shawn Yang

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Sensor Cluster - Electrical - WARG Michael Botros

• Stalled until someone is able to drive it (Megan Lee interested after getting more experience)

Open Tasks

• Peggy harnessing?

• Replacing DMM fuze/batteries?

Action Items

Make thread for social planning

Is thre gonna be tracking antenna meeting

Link diagram in cconf doc

Send out PDB lettucemeet