2023-03-06 Meeting Notes

Cornflakes

Alison Thompson

• Rebuilt: frame, wings, cabin, horizontal and vertical stabilizers

• Need to do: Mount back servos, nosecone, cabin lid, airfoils/wing extensions

• Things to talk about:

  • Control rods (anyone know how to make them? I struggled to do it)

  • Better control horns (anyone have a good CAD file or can they be purchased with a quick turnaround?)

• Anyone insterested in coming in tomorrow to help? Need to pass off to EE ASAP

• Flight-test on Saturday! Come see Cornflakes fly! (Megan with more details later lol)

Competition Frame updates

Megan Spee

Conall Kingshott

Cabin - skin, main cylinder build Conall Kingshott

• Tube frame of cabin mostly built - need to replace two 3D printed joints

• Skin is going to attach to foam ribs using velcro (Mostly done)

• Will need some holes made for camera and mounting to frame.

Stiffener for Battery Compartment - Hrishik Patel

• Design done, ready to be printed?

Landing gear - Alison Thompson

• Mostly assembled, just got new prints done

• Will be done once Cornflakes is done

• Going to look into a stabilizer to run horizontally between both sides to stop them from bowing out on impact

Nose/tail - Andrew Wright

• to glue second nose cone? (foam)

Avionics bay - Conall Kingshott

• We’re gonna wait on the interface to be done for this. Dremel on fiberglass will be nasty.

Bay door - Vishal Jayakumar

• it’s printed in lightweight PLA, just hasnt been fixed to door. Hrishik Patel was doing cabin assem, can possibly help with attaching door

• We need a piece of carbon fiber for this (maybe Andrew Wright )

CV camera mount - Arjun Mandair

• Printed and done now?

• Test fit

• Will need holes in plates for mounting, and skin for visibility.

** Reminders for Comp Frame for General Visibility **

We will need to implement:

• optical flow sensor on bottom

• 360-degree-visibility LED lights. must be done in junction with EE

• forward and downward camera - is this accounted for?

• airspeed sensors need to go on icarus

• antenna mounting in general

• arm/disarm switch on the tail - EE junction

Flight tests and comp simulations

Megan Spee

Flight test this saturday March 11

via flight test channel - “the plan is to test that cornflakes can fly reliably in a fixed wing configuration, as well as gather some preliminary battery life data.”

another flight test March 18

Tracking antenna

Megan Spee Andy Zhang Jason Li

How’s this going Mech - Tracking Antenna

(cad sprint, sourcing components. Any pitfalls or open questions)

Bounties!

Megan Spee

Conall Kingshott

• No new bounties at the moment

• Frame/Fuselage mounting brackets underway Andrew Wright

Outstanding:

• cornflakes cabin?

• Team sign

• Wing ribs for cornflakes

back to weekly meetings!

Megan Spee

happy midterm week over for most of you!

ICARUS synchups - happening on tuesdays weekly, 9pm

General meetings - thursdays @ 8pm

you all know this. just a reminder, cause we’ve been off for a while