2023-03-13 Meeting Notes

Cornflakes

@Alison Thompson

• # Didn’t crash! it looks great!

• Open

  

  feedback/action items from flight debrief:

  • Need to tighten down motors on angled motor mounts

  • Redesign back tube inserts and print in CF filament (Justin Joseph)

  • Switch nuts to nylock

  • Camera mount for next flight test (get Camera info from @Anthony Luo ) @Arjun Mandair

Competition Frame updates

@Megan Spee

@Conall Kingshott

Cabin - skin, main cylinder build @Conall Kingshott

• connecting stiffeners inside cabin

• working through cabin integration
  
  bounties tail stabilizer: see discord, assigned to @Andrew Wright

  Open

  

pic of tail

• angled motor mount via @Andrew Wright - cad is done, design is reviewed, up for printing on wednesday-ish

• Skin is going to attach to foam ribs using velcro (Mostly done - issues with velcro sticking

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

@Andrew Wright @justin ** ADD TO CONFLUENCE >< @sohee

wing midsections printed! thank you @Andrew Wright

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

• (this is the same update as last week lol, I will start the stabilizer this week)

Nose/tail - @Andrew Wright

• we have nose and tail

• CF nose/tail project is continuing tho!

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

• painted, looks done! nice!

• not attached to CF plate yet, thinking of epoxy-ing this down

CV camera mount - @Arjun Mandair

• add grommets and do a test fit

• CF holes are drilled thank you @Conall Kingshott

• to upload sketch

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** 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? - front camera into foam nose cone @Megan Spee

• 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 18!

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

lets not crash x2

Tracking antenna

@Megan Spee @Andy Zhang @Jason Li

How’s this going Mech - Tracking Antenna

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

• @Andy Zhang done most of cadding for baseplate/ antenna mounting

• @Jason Li mounts are coming together - communicate w EE

• Conall reviewed cad, lookin good!

Bounties!

@Megan Spee

@Conall Kingshott

Outstanding:

• Team sign

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

omnipresent safety reminder

composites room for any fiberglass and carbon fiber (CF).

PLEASE be safe lol. these are carcinogens

don’t do this if you don’t feel safe!
paint room for spray paint!