Attendance
In person | Online |
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General Updates
Check out Conops for AEAC! Get involved in comp syncs for discussion https://www.aerialevolution.ca/annual-student-competition/
We decided to not do SUAS since it costs time, manpower, money, late conops.
Summary
Happening May 9-11 in Medicine Hat, Alberta
Aiming to do a full simulation Nov 8
Phase one January 15
Phase 1 Proposal, 2 is competition
Task 1
Detect a fire in the distance (red balloons ), Identify hotspots (IR beacons), Visually identify what started the fire
Task 2
Transport water from a source tank to the locations of the fire hotspots and deposit
Successful Flight test on Saturday!
https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1281721899906367519
First flight on new drone!
Big step since made changes without testing.
Some hiccups but they got ironed out.
Another test next Saturday:
Range/Speed test: https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1287116296609202336
Obstacle avoidance test: https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1283890207287935018
Lots of prep for these, get involved in the threads above if interested
Usually in mornings
Competition Architecture Sync: Thursday at 8 PM in E5 2103.
Last competition sync: 2024-09-18 Comp Arch Sync - Meetings - WARG (atlassian.net)
Fixed Wing Architecture Sync is on Wednesday at 8 PM in E5 2103
More on fixed wing below
Successful Work session!
ESC Can Adapter assembly almost done!
Work session next week Sunday @1PM in the bay
Plan: TODO
EFS workshops:
Not directly EE but still can be useful
Sept 30th: Datasheets and Protocols, led by Sahil Kale
Oct 7th: Job Search & Interview Strategy, co-led by Christopher Chung and Sahil Kale
Chris is an EE advisor
All workshops will take place from 8pm to 10pm in E7 5353
Lack of pilots next term - Reach out if off stream and interested
Consider the commitment.
Reminders
Don’t forget to fill out the team roster: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D
If you are on a project and can use some help, reach out and you can be a PM for the project.
On Mac? No problem: Altium & Windows - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Board bring up Status
Board Name | status | blockers | plan going forward |
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Tracking antenna | assembled SMT components on 2 boards |
| continue debugging and document process |
ESC CAN | Assembled SMT components on all 5 boards Resoldered some components that did not reflow well/had some minor issues (mainly the STM32) | EFS needs to do testing to confirm full validation of the board | Validate EE side of things - testing for shorts, continuity, etc |
Peggy 2 Updates
updates: Installed range finder with Ian Van Den Steen , no issues reported
no blockers so far
plans going forward:
Order IR filter Ryan Scomazzon by
Install video system Jerry Tian by
Bring-up lightning boards Daniel Puratich plz give time
Bring-up rpi rev b boards Daniel Puratich plz give time
Fixed Wing Updates - Fixed Wing 2025 - SysInt - WARG (atlassian.net)
R&D Project
First meeting of the term this week
Board updates below
Bootcamp Updates
Congratulations to Ahmed Osman and Sam Zhang for completing the bootcamp!!
Minor changes for future bootcampers:
Reviews will now be conducted over discord voice chat and are meant to serve as a discussion about the boards design and possible improvements
Please ping Parker Lawrence-Valeriani when you’re ready for review
Feel free to send any questions you may have!
Best of luck!!
Design Tasks
In order of priority. These are the active design projects.
RPi Interface Rev C - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Daniel Puratich Project Manager, Principle Hardware Engineer
Siddharth Muralikrishnan Ahmed Osman Anthony Lazar Anthony Luo
LTE Breakout - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Canceled, now part of RPi Interface Rev C - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
green tasks need to be done → need a lot of new components for this board, anyone is welcome to take them, but I actually need these done
12V -> 5V @ 4A Buck Converter + ELRS Board - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Kenny NaEngineer
24V->5V @ 5 A Buck Converter Board - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Robert TangEngineer
Kevin Li PM
Unified Video System - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Tom Chiu Individual Contributor
12S ESC - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Ethan Abraham Individual Contributor
Finalizing schematic
Pending items
Source and implement oscillator
Source and implement 60V TVS diode
ELRS Redundant Diversity RX - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Nolan Haines Individual Contributor
where is Michael Botros's board?
Bring-up Tasks
In order of priority.
CAN DSHOT Controller
need to deliver to EFS to test the CAN circuit
when will this be ready
Tracking Ant Controller
need to deliver to EFS immediately
RPi Interface Rev B
need to deliver, ideally done this weekend so autonomy can test before next weekend
Daniel will participate in session for sure but would be nice if someone here to PM
Peggy 2 Lighting Board Rev 3
validate CAN circuit with CAN DSHOT Controller before assembling this
let’s assemble the bottom side this weekend?
other side need to wait for LCSC order
Daniel will participate in session for sure but would be nice if someone here to PM
Single Servo Module
for fixed wing, assemble before midterms
6S Servo Module
for fixed wing, assemble before midterms
12S Servo Module - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
On hold to focus on comp critical Peggy 2 tasks.
Status update:
2nd board is not seeing any voltage on buck vout, while 1st board was fine.
would like to run battery inrush test at Vin, see Efuse and Battery Inrush test plan
most likely is my soldering skill issue, feel free to take a look if you’re interested
Potential new project: Test Automation
Needs Assessment (comparing to the manual test procedure we have rn):
1. characterize our custom buck converter’s performance.
2. understand our designs more, help ee members learn
Load transient test is helpful on identifying issues if downstream board is brownout during flight test
Knowing efficiency of the bucks
3. efs running out of work to do
New Tasks Assigned
This section is here for completeness. If a new task is assigned in a meeting, it will be added here.