🫂 Attendance

🗒️ The Weekly Recap

✈️ Flight Tests:

📦 New arrivals

📈 Cool things we did

• ELRS Airport working (very slow though)

✅ Open action items

📝 Meeting minutes

Tracking Antenna 🗼

Tracking Antenna Tower

MECHANICAL

Yaw only looking good.

• Will look @ 3s

• Going to add some angle on yaw only

  • on pitch version, going to add default is level and ability to pitch up and down.

• Building the antenna starting this week.

• Using the tripod.

• No counterbalance for the yagis (fine for yaw only).

• HS 785 HQ, 8 rotation servo

  • gearbox is 1:7

  • will need calibration for this later (in software)

Tracking Antenna Nucleo Shield

ELECTRICAL

• component selection undergoing

• we have a new member joining this project Rukshi Thiyagayogan

Integration almost complete. BMX tested, NEOM8 not tested.

PID not started….

Tracking Antenna Software

EMBEDDED FLIGHT SOFTWARE

• integration code finished

• have a blocker: not finding neo m8 but solved today

• will warp up the integration test

• continue on pid motor code

• WILL WRITE UNIT TESTS

ELRS 📶

Gemini 📻

ELECTRICAL

• Slightly behind schedule

• Electrical schematic in its last stages

  • missing some connector clarifications

    • Planning to ask in ELRS discord

  • Research new component to replace PCB antennas

  • Will require a schematic review

    • Potentially other EE members or leads

    • Also planning to review in ELRS discord

• PCB design phase hoping to start this week

• Will ideally be able to give some dimensions and sync with mechanical soon for JR module mechanical design

• Gemini communicates over UART.

• Antennas for ESP are mostly meant to flash firmware over wifi / OTA updates

• Going to do RS422 now, looking for Wireless in the future.

  • if doing wireless - it can be UART.

    • Gemini communication needs BOOT0 connection (to update over wifi).

      • may need to use push-button // jumper

    • Normal communication just uses UART.

• Just started PCB phase

• 

  Board will likely not be ordered before the end of the term

  • Will need to be tested early next term

Airport 🛫

EMBEDDED FLIGHT SOFTWARE

< updates here >

• Hardy looking to create wireless function for RS422, will contact Farris to get more info.

Ground Station Software

AUTONOMY

• Data Telemetry working & tested.

• Working on GUI.

IMACS

• working on testing stuff through TCP.

• Once serial port working, and GUI done, need to test on drone // ardupilot.

  • Minipix possible?

QR Code detection

• Focus rn

MAVLink commands

• Focus rn

Airside Command & Control

LTE Communication 📡

INTEGRATION

< probably not much to update but updates here if there are any >

Jetson Autonomy 📷

AUTONOMY

• All tasks given out, architecture created and finalized.

• all independent tasks completed by saturday.

• week after is integration

• flight test on saturday post next (22nd).

GeoLocation

• Needs to be refactored.

• Merge-odometry-and-detections module

Dronekit on Jetson

• Dronekit on jetson PR just reviewed.

  • trying to keep in common repository (ground and airside). Reduces boilerplate.

Control Passthrough 🎛️

EMBEDDED FLIGHT SOFTWARE

MAVLink

• Updates here

SBUS

• Updates here

CRSF?

• Updates here