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Evan Janakievski

Kevin Ng

Nathaniel Li

Sohee Yoon

Thushanth Parameswaran

Rui Zhu

Justin Liu

Calum Chisholm

Team Announcements

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Upcoming Team Events

  • Houston Assembly & Software Configuration Session June 16th 1pm in the bay

    • some hands on mech stuff + learning about what electronics go on a drone

  • Fixed wing architecture will be at 9pm on Wednesday (right after mech ;/)

    • pull up if you want to be involved in the high level design

  • Ground station & tracking antenna sync 9pm on Thursdays

  • check #announcements for all other events

Other Announcements

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Electronics Cases

  • Updates on Pixhawk mount?

    • Houston assembly is this Sunday, can we get it done by then?

  • New motor mount update?

Motor Shield

Justin

  • Reproduced UofT’s design

  • Mass at 100% infill PET from SolidWorks show 40.5 g. Current mount weighs 30 g.

  • Don’t know how effective this shield is at protecting the motor tbh.

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Frame

  • Waterproofing updates

    • Discussion last Saturday

    • Spoke with Midsun aero lead, we can use their thermoformer (SDC gave it to them since no one uses it so its free realestate)

    • Forming area of thermformer is 18 x 27 inches. X-frame spans 16.6 x 16.6 inches

      • curve around the arm clamping bolts

New Tasks

Wings

  • info on reading NACA airfoils

  • Stanford aero course linked in decision doc

    • Nathaniel looking into different shapes this week

  • Use balsa for ribs instead of aluminum

    • maximize surface area between the wrap and the rib

  • 4 ft wing span

  • define speed and other constraints to choose airfoils

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