First meeting of the term!

Meeting plan:

1. Icebreakers

2. Interesting facts

3. Goal for this term

• Asana task updates

• How we’re going to conduct ourselves

attendance:

Open

introduction of team leads!

few new members! Ice breakers :D

Icebreakers

Aidan

• systems design

• just finished 2b (4th co-op)

• varsity curling team! !

• want to learn how to use STM Microcontrollers.

Andre V

• biomedical engineering

• currentyl 1b

• play volleyball

• Further code in c++

Anthony

• Robust plane in the air

Chris

• finished 2a mechatronics, doing co-op right now

• Likes to juggle

• gain some more experience with STM’s

Dhruv

• finished 2a, on co-op right now.

• gliders license before could drive.

• build a drone that’s robust, modular. hopefully we learn.

Gordon

• just finished 2b (co-op)

• like playing cello ?!

• do something cool!

Neha

• finished 2a tron.

• do something cool and learn something.

Nixon

• tron 2a

• work on diff things and learn as much as you can.

Tony Bertnyk

• 2a tron

• Can fence

• Want to see code fly

Yashraj

• 2a tron (on co-op)

• speedcubing/yoyoing

• gain firmware experience

Manav

• 2a tron (co-op)

• like watching anime !

• learn about firmware!

Shrinjay

• team lead of warg

• was cv teach lead

• likes going to ghost towns to take

Aadi

• 2a tron (on co-op)

• drone not falling out of the sky.

Goals to hit this term

• robust code

• mentorship

• try to learn from each other.

  • methods of assigning tasks and running meetings.

  • pairing old + new members.

  • standups by team members.

    • when making PR, give a quick presentation to the team (or give a quick status update on what your code does and what you have learned).

    • include documentation.

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Status updates

• 2-3 week hiatus over winter?

• restarting now.

• if you worked on something, please give a quick update. If new member, don’t say anything.

• aadi

  • before took break had test programs written for sending data through xbees

  • code has been accumulated.

  • meeting with CV have as little clue as we do for data firmware wise.

  • Gordon has list from previous comp (confluence outdated).

  • Develop requirements from comp reqs.

  • Meeting with Jeffrey (CV Co-op) and all leads.

    • thing for groundstation is looking at data or sending commands

• Aidan

  • had done nothing over exam period?

  • looking at doing PID tuning.

  • Hover to Waypoint Manager

  • no new task

• Gordon

  • firmware bootcamp revamp done now? Being implemented. Chris tested it out → first person through

  • ready for another task

• Neha

  • IMU Driver has been merged into github

• Nixon

  • got nucleo from dhruv.

  • tried to run driver on it.

  • getting some errors on the SD card.

  • same error on devboard.

    • error with sdcard not having spi enabled

    • try to get sdcard with spi enabled.

  • can flash on board

• Tony

  • last explicit task was wrapped up (PID LOOP MODE state)

  • helped out a bit with cmake integration and getting safety rtogether

  • nothing specific being worked on

• Dhruv

  • AM rearchitect (Tony and Dhruv working on moving it from autopilot to safety).

  • State machine being redone.

  • Controls drone orientation in space.

• Yashraj

  • firmware-cv comms

  • finished uart driver, pr in. waiting for review.

  • data formatting defined before starting.

  • how to put that into telemetry manager

• Kaveet

  • ghosted the team for 2.5 months. (xd)

  • no task.

• Manav

  • Last thing was failsafe implementation

  • ready for new task.

Overview of Available tasks

→ all up on Asana (https://app.asana.com/0/187002107997407/list)

• giving idea of tasks available, you can see them on asana.

• Based on open tasks, we will be send out a google form and you’ll put in preferences and how you plan to implement them. (hopefully nobody fighting on tasks)

General comments

• documentation for the documentation

  • need styles for documentation

• Integrate confluence with documentation && github pull request.

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