General Team Status/Schedule:
Meeting times:
EE Meeting: Thursdays 9 PM EST E5 1006
Leads Meeting: Wednesday 9 PM EST E5 1006
Team Competition Aircraft Sync: Tuesday 9 PM
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Flight test this weekend
Active PCB Projects
High Current Power Module (Taim, Steven)
Got PCB layout reviewed, will address shortly before starting routing
12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)
Ethan in India
6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)
Mostafa: Attended buck control session by Farris, and decided on using electrolytic capacitor for output cap, started reading into current sense.
Rayyan: Have Power MOSFETs selection down to a couple MOSFETs. Will have selection finalized by next meeting along with majority of everything else related to gate driver circuit.
I also attended Farris' Control Loop Learning Session and learned a lot and feel big brain now.
Both of have our Asana goals updated.
Rayyan: Component selection for gate driver circuit done by Nov 30th. MCU circuit by winter break. By end of winter break to have schematics.
Mostafa: Buck and current sense component selection done by Nov 30ths. Schematics done by end of winter break.
LED Controller (Neel, Parker)
Setup another meeting to go over component selection.
Meet before next Sync (Saturday)
Neel will be gone start of December. Plan to have at least component selection and parts ordered. Leaving assembly and testing.
ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)
Jerry Tian will take a look after the flight test.
Drone Battery PCB (Farris)
Still need to take some measurements & draft a rough outline to determine price & power capabilities, will probably be some delay on this though as I’m bogged down by schoolwork
PDB (Tom)
Figured out which components are required, now need to determine component values.
Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)
Nolan Haines Hardy Yu Michael Botros Please update.
Schematic is close to being finished for voltage sensing. Measuring the differential voltage between all 6 cells. Low battery indicator and automatic shutoff.
Overcurrent protection, SD Card, Shield connectors remaining.
SD Card and shield connectors Hardy Yu
Overcurrent protection unassigned. Nolan Haines
Goal to have board done before exam season.
12S Servo Module (Jerry)
Jerry: pushed deadline by 1 week to Nov 23rd since I'm not confident with PCB trace routing.
Will talk to Daniel.
ZP3 Rework (Anthony)
https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1111453504721137685
Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Side Quest):
https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1124835115239997520
https://oscarliang.com/capacitors-mini-quad/
https://noirfpv.com/drone-capacitors/
https://www.getfpv.com/learn/new-to-fpv/all-about-multirotor-fpv-drone-electronic-speed-controller/
https://risingsunfpv.com/blogs/helpful-guides/what-is-a-capacitor