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

• Attendance:

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• Altium 365

• EE Asana

• 2023 System Architecture

🍍 Updates this week!

Admin:

• Aircraft sync happens every Tuesday at 9pm.

  • EE members are encouraged to drop in and listen.

• PCB rework session this Saturday at 3pm!

• Drone harnessing session this Friday at 3pm! (Tentative)

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim, Steven)

• Taim Al-Dabbagh Steven Wang

• Fixing up layout, addressing comments left from layout review

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

• Ethan Abraham Christopher Chung

• After finals, too busy at the moment.

• Decent progress achieved.

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

• Rayyan Mahmood Mostafa Hussein

• Mostafa: Completed part selection for buck and current sense, will work on schematics after finals.

• Rayyan:

  • FET selection completed

  • Began schematic for Three Phase Inverter circuit

  • Updated Asana tasks due to missed time

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

• Neel Patel Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

• First component was created, hoping to complete the second and upload to WARGs database tomorrow

• Please document new design and changes on confluence.

• Will sync with Neel

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

• Michael Botros Farris Matar

• No updates from EE, seems to be working.

Drone Battery PCB (Farris)

• Farris Matar

• Confirmed dropped, not feasible?

PDB (Tom)

• Tom Chiu

  • Nothing else until after exams.

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

• Nolan Haines Hardy Yu Michael Botros

• Schematic basically finished, replaced connector schematic and cleaned up schematic a bit

  • Confirm header of servo

  • Polarity of balance connectors on LIPO battery.

    • Which end of connector is most positive and negative.

• Schematic review soon

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

• Jerry Tian

• Daniel added 30 comments. Slowly working through them, 5 done this week. Was focusing onHouston Power Testing

  • Houston Power Testing - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

ZP3 Rework (Anthony, Ryan)

• Anthony Zhelnakov Ryan Scomazzon

• Selected some of the connectors: ZP3 Flight Interface Board - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

• Asked EFS for any sensors/peripherals they want added to the new flight interface board. Waiting on reply. Plz document.

  • Only need Accelerometer and gyro

    

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Anthony)

• Anthony Zhelnakov

• No progress thus far, will work on it after exams.