🍍 Updates this week!

Admin

• No work session this weekend

• Push wiring diagram project (we want to start assembling electrical at end of the term/beginning of next term)

• Need 1-2 people who will be onsite next term to represent WARG EE at the Engineering Orientation on September 7th from 5-7pm

  • Nolan

  • Mena (maybe)

• Last EE meeting for the term

• Who is interested in electrical assembly? (2nd Half of August)

  • Neel

  • Parker

  • Farris (2nd last weekend of August)

  • Nolan

  • Mena (after 25th)

  • Michael

  • Zen (until 25th)

• Jerry and Nolan interested in RF

  • Look into getting Network/Signal Analyzer

  • Michael Botros to follow up with this

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Zen, Chris)

Updated 12V buck based on feedback. Finished component selection for 5V buck.

• Schematic review perhaps next week

• Michael Botros read through confluence

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

• Sourcing buck components

• Onboarded Saksham onto project

• Chris has symbols and footprints that need a review, Ethan will get on this

• Board 100% isn’t being completed this term. Realistic is that we’re ordering by end of Sept, assembling and bring-up will go to mid-Oct, and then integrating with FOC firmware will be late next term and will carry into Winter term

6S ESC (Mena, Rayyan)

• Rayyan: Continuing to go through datasheets to source passives

• Mena: Shifting focus on drone wiring for now

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

Finalizing the block diagram tonight.

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

• Michael

  • No real progress this week from me

• Farris

  • Layout grind, placement done and a lot of routing done, mainly the more complicated parts (RF, power, ESP fanout)

  • Responded to Daniel Puratich's comments & suggestions, will have to follow up on some of those action items though

PDB (Tom)

• Michael Botros needs to check in with Tom

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Rukshi)

• Rukshi and Hardy going strong

• Buck selection for 5V rail in question

12S Servo Module (Stanley, Jack, Jerry)

• Stanley: Selected new input capacitors, added new components to to Altium project, (had to download and modify footprints for Al poly, and 2220 caps, please look over them)

• Jack: Working on sourcing TVS diode for overcurrent protection boards

• Jerry: need to finalize switching FET. Added DNP pads on schematic.

Drone Wiring

• Choosing wires and connectors

  • Order going tonight

• Pixhawk and peripheral connectors priority next

Bootcamper Progress Updates

• No bootcampers currently