🍍 Updates this week!
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No work session this weekend
Push wiring diagram project (we want to start assembling electrical at end of the term/beginning of next term)
Need 1-2 people who will be onsite next term to represent WARG EE at the Engineering Orientation on September 7th from 5-7pm
Last EE meeting for the term
Active PCB Projects
High Current Power Module (Zen, Chris)
Updated 12V buck based on feedback. Finished component selection for 5V buck.
12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)
Sourcing buck components
Onboarded Saksham onto project
Chris has symbols and footprints that need a review, Ethan will get on this
Board 100% isn’t being completed this term. Realistic is that we’re ordering by end of Sept, assembling and bring-up will go to mid-Oct, and then integrating with FOC firmware will be late next term and will carry into Winter term
6S ESC (Mena, Rayyan)
Rayyan: Continuing to go through datasheets to source passives
Mena: Shifting focus on drone wiring for now
LED Controller (Neel, Parker)
Finalizing the block diagram tonight.
ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)
Michael
No real progress this week from me
Farris
Layout grind, placement done and a lot of routing done, mainly the more complicated parts (RF, power, ESP fanout)
Responded to Daniel Puratich's comments & suggestions, will have to follow up on some of those action items though
PDB (Tom)
Michael Botros needs to check in with Tom
Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Rukshi)
12S Servo Module (Stanley, Jack, Jerry)
Stanley: Selected new input capacitors, added new components to to Altium project, (had to download and modify footprints for Al poly, and 2220 caps, please look over them)
Jack: Working on sourcing TVS diode for overcurrent protection boards
Bootcamper Progress Updates
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