2025-02-13 Electrical Meeting

Agenda

Attendance

In person

Online

Himansh Garg

General Updates

NO MEETINGS OVER READING WEEK
Do we want meetings over exam week?
- Let not do it
Do we want work sessions over reading/exam week?
BEWARE OF SCAMS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
- WARG leadership will NEVER ask you for money or gift cards
- Report potential scams by pinging directors inhttps://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1338629108434735175
Lead Nomination form !
- Last onsite lead term for Ryan Scomazzon
- https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlnJ_8qERK-dMn1dJnIofYSJUQkJYNERBRVVWOEUwNDJRU05UVDVRRUdIQi4u
- We are looking for a new lead and will start discussing it after midterms, please fill out this form by Friday, March 7th @ 11:59pm EST to nominate a peer that you think would be a good fit! nominating yourself is heavily encouraged if you’re interested in becoming a lead!
- Even if you don't think you are ready now, its good to know interest for the future!
- Please read through these docs for more information
  - https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AD/pages/2584969280/Lead+Promotion+Process?search_id=7a5e4af7-677c-4f80-806f-33c6de27b0ab&additional_analytics=queryHash---e3456bc1f4d270f4a97933758645fdc21e39642b31ca343c1818f7972ac27906
  - Subteam Lead Promotion Criteria
- We will talk with every person who self nominates + anyone else who we see fit from nominations
Weef wishlist
- What do we need?
- Engsoc was due this monday, submitted and asked for solder and flux (engsoc only allows consumables)
- WEEF is due early march; so far we have:
  - storage shelf/boxes
    - will ask Graeme about removing whiteboard behind ee tables
  - PCBA funds
  - hardware tools
    - more wire strippers
    - more solder wick
  - please add more if you think of anything!
WARG Jackets colour has been changed to dark gray because they were out of black in selected sizes…
- anyone have major issues with this?
Work sessions
- Tuesdays @ 6pm
- Saturdays @ 3pm
- Gonna have to start splitting harnessing and PCB bring up
- More people would be hype as we start doing more
- Adding an additional work session in the week for harnessing?
  - Leadership can split who runs them if it is too much for one person?
Early term board order
- Kenny Na
- Sarah has been away from office
- Meghan sent out an email, no updates from her?
Pick&Place machine
- Still not in the bay
- I sent a follow-up too
We got a funding account for batteries soon
- Anyone have ideas for how to spend it?
- Sam Zhang ?
- Discuss here https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1339048423856541726
EE Social Planning?

Flight Tests

Last flight test
- February 8th
- https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1336370633952723056
- 2025-2-8 Autonomy Flight test (CANCELLED)
- Plan: Cluster estimation
- Comp roster people should be at these now
- cancelled due to insufficient ground testing, moved to next flight test
Next flight test
- Feb 15th
- https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1338367711578951680
- https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FT/pages/3005579265/2025-2-15+Autonomy+Flight+Test
- Plan:
  - test autonomy system
  - detect target for IR beacons
  - run autotune for tuning airframe
  - Solid chance it gets cancelled due to snow

Reminders

Use LCSC components on new boards (Ideally from the JLC library)
TURN OFF DMMs WHEN DONE please!
Don’t forget to fill out the team roster: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D
Make sure to clean up after yourself
Get the electronsite role if on site - reach out to Ryan Scomazzon if you have issues
Competition syncs Mondays at 9pm
Eclipse sync Tuesdays at 8pm
Tracking antenna meetings
- Sunday 2pm
Reach out if you need help on a project or bootcamp
Recruit your friends!
- More fun with friends
- If you like the team, then we can do even more with more people!

Pegasus/Competition Updates

EFS tested LED boards. All but one work. We need to fix that and making spares would be nice.
- Reflowing did not fix. Worth replacing the STM
- The transceiver seems to work. RX looks good on the scope, TX doesn't.
  - Talk to Derek Tang or Ryan Scomazzon for details