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\uD83D\uDDD3 Date

2023-09-12

\uD83D\uDC65 Participants

\uD83E\uDD45 Goals

  • Intro

  • Update the group on progress of various projects

  • Review Deadlines

  • Allocate tasks

\uD83D\uDDE3 Discussion topics

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Presenter

Notes

Welcome!

Conall Kingshott

Introductions

Conall Kingshott

  • Name, program, year, favourite song/album

Leads:

Project Managers:

Intro 2: Electric Boogaloo

Conall Kingshott

  • Meeting and work session times
    - Mech Meeting: Wednesday 8PM
    - Work Sessions: TBD
    - Comp sync Tuesday 9PM

  • What we are trying to teach/learn and how we go about it

  • Expectations (Communication in discord, professionalism, positive learning environment)

  • Bootcamp and taking on tasks

Initial Question interlude

  • Any pressing questions/concerns probably linked to above content?

Comp frame project explanation and check-in

Conall Kingshott

  • Show CAD

  • Weight check in and manufacturing technique explanation

  • Work on Cabin, mounts, and shields in next ~2 terms

Antenna tracker explanation and check-in

Arjun Mandair

  • Show CAD

Fixes that need to be implemented

  • Lessen overall weight and material consumption

    • Will help with overall inertia of the system

  • ManufacturingLessen amount of set screws utilized on shaft

  • 90 degree sheet metal bend instead of machined block

  • Supports on servo mount

    • Also beef up overall design of servo mount

  • Sensor mounting

  • Waterproofing

Questions

  • Continuous rotation servo?

  • Servo on plate instead of bottom?

    • Will make the sensor mounting weird or difficult

    • May need to increase plate size

    • Increase overall inertia

  • Servo Wire tangling?

    • Slip ring?

  • Wiring antenna tracker to ground?

Will Update Asana after confirmations!

Houston explanation and check-in

Conall Kingshott

  • What is Houston

  • Landing gear stuff

  • Upcoming weatherproofing

FEA/SIM explanation

Smile Khatri

  • Software we can use: SolidWorks simulations, Ansys Fluent & Ansys for FEA and CFD

  • Simulation workshops starting late September

    • Workshop 1 will go in-depth about CFD, fundamentals of aircraft aerodynamics which will help us make our drone more aerodynamic

    • opportunity to learn Ansys Fluent (popular software for running CFD sims)

    • Workshop 2 will be focused on FEA, static and dynamic sims. I.e. we can use FEA to determine whether our landing gear can withstand the impact from the drone landing

  • There’ll be opportunities for running sims throughout the term for different components of the drone

McMaster Order

Conall Kingshott

Arjun Mandair to give buy list by Monday

Asana Time!

Conall Kingshott

✅ Action items

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⤴ Decisions