Attendance
In person | Online |
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General Updates
Meghan running this meeting 🔥🔥
LAST MEETING OF THE TERM
WE ACTUALLY KILLED IT THIS TERM NICE JOB EVERYONE
Ryan Scomazzon To talk a bit looking back on how epic we did
Last flight test
https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1306366375606091817
Tracking antenna had data sending issue - pushed to next flight test
Pegasus 2 new landing gear testing moved to next test
Autonomy Cluster Estimation and Image collection with manually set camera settings
Houston had motor issues and can now be flown until we get new motors - we are looking at better motors https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1310452583449628692
Help is welcome if you wanna look into motor selection
Next Flight Test - Nov30th
2024-11-30 Pegasus 2 Landing Gear Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG
https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1306721274973786132
Testing new angled landing gear - for landing on the bucket
Houston tests postponed until we get new motors (tracking antenna)
Pilot training moved to this test
Final Flight Test of the term - Dec 14th
Testing both solutions for task 2 - pump (water controller) and scoop (single servo driver
water controller is pending on EE - we need this assembled and validated by then!
PULL UP!!
Winter 2025 EE Co-op
An EE coop would be really epic but we need a mentor to have one!
If you wanna be a coop mentor, please reach out to EE leads. It would be really really epic and cool and awesome sauce.
EE co-ops have been actually popping off (nice job guys)
DEADLINE IS TOMORROW so please reach out now if interested!!!!!!!
We would still have to make the job description and get it reviewed so must let us know TN
PMs next term
We are looking for PMs for next term
Going to release a form after finals, please keep an eye out if interested
No questions on the form, just submit if interested
We will talk individually to everyone who fills it out to see PM role would work and go over expectations.
Can be on OR off site.
Midterm board order
Please follow post ordering backup processhttps://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2699821117/Altium+Folder+Structure+EE+Project+Backups#Post-Ordering
Yet to bet ordered
Sensor cluster - prob gonna be on its own
Tracking Antenna Controller rev 2, GPS (for GPS breakout) - combined together
Led Rev 4 - maybe combined with above maybe not?
EE Work session
Today’s
successful bringup of water controller!
3 Boards Assembled
validated + powered up, should be good to test w/ mech system pre-comp sync
Pre-charge system working
Friday’s
potentially bringup more boards
check availability of members (finals)
if no one avail, cancel this sesh
likely no sunday sesh either unless people would be interested in more board bringup
AEAC Town Hall #1 happened
This is where they answer questions everyone had about competition
PCBX Sponsorship Ryan Scomazzon
Good news and bad news
Good news: Turns out they didn't ghost us, it just got sent to junk
Bad news: They are ops of deception and basically used this as a marketing campaign. Their offer for free services was only for the first order and everyone gets this as a new account promotion. They conveniently didn't mention this in their first email.
They mentioned something about offering a discount to us for long term cooperation? I sent an email to push for what we can get out of them but I think this is probably a dud
Back to looking for a JLC sponsorship, I can use some help with that.
Comp/Eclipse sync
No eclipse sync
Comp sync tmrw night (Thursday) @ 8pm in E5-2103
LAST COMP SYNC OF THE TERM
Beginning of term order
Who wants to be on it?
Reasonable timeline?
TOASTER OVEN ACQUIRED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💪 💪 💪 💪 💪
Plz dont store things on top of it or touch the top - it gets hot
Dont put food in there because we will be using leaded solder in there which will make your food not something you wanna eat (unless you want cancer)
Reminders
Please clean up after yourself
Get the electronsite role if on site - reach out to Ryan Scomazzon if you have issues
Check out Conops for AEAC! Get involved in comp syncs for discussion https://www.aerialevolution.ca/annual-student-competition/
If you are on a project and can use some help, reach out
Don’t forget to fill out the team roster: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D
Missing GPS
RIP - Gone forever likely
probably gonna order
Board bring up Status
Please update test plans/board documentation!
WATER CONTROLLER
Board Name | status | blockers | plan going forward |
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GPS Breakout |
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Single Servo Driver |
| https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Meetings/database/2752839681?entryId=726878aa-bcb8-4728-9eed-18483cfb5c94 | |
6s Power Module |
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Water controller |
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Peggy 2/Comp Updates
Jerry Tian For Peggy 2
Water controller making (prob in more detail above)
Will install Dec 13 afternoon lol (after I finish finals)
Comp relevant PCBAs
Water controller
Water controller Rev 2
LED REV 4
Tracking antenna controller rev2
Unified VTX - descoped from this comp cycle
Single servo driver
Pi interface rev c
Big push now is for Dec 14 flight test
Eclipse Updates - Fixed Wing 2025 - SysInt - WARG (atlassian.net)
The below boards should be included
6S servo module rev 2 - assembly next term
Single Servo Driver - waiting on EFS
6S power module - in validation Andrew Chai for details
High current test
POR for first flight of eclipse next term.
24-5V buck - redundant power supply
Jerry Tian Interested in harness diagrams?
Looking for diagrams of where things will be mounted from mech
General 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
Kenny Na Layout Design
New modem, different SIM TVS, back to making routing progress
12S ESC - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Pending layout review - basically done
Room for optimization
ELRS Redundant Diversity RX - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)
Nolan Haines Individual Contributor
Stalled for 12-5V Buck + ELRS RX bringup
Stalled for layout on RPi Interface Rev. C
Fixed wing connector research (VBat, CAN, 5V)
Forgot to check connector at work
Still open for anyone who wants to help, dm me
ELRS Gemini Testing/Rev 2
is this still going ?
12V Input to 65W USB-PD Source - Electrical - WARG
12V to 24V Boost Groundside Converter - Electrical - WARG
Asked about some requirements/constraints for this board, hoping to start doing some of the math once I
Looking into options for buying one premade
Read over some guidelines from Texas Instruments on working with boost convertors
Water System Controller rev 2 - Electrical - WARG
Shawn Yang add link for new doc and any progress