2023-03-13 EE Meeting

Owned by Daniel Puratich
Last updated: 2024-05-14 by R D
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General Team Status/Schedule:

  • Meeting times:

    • EE Meeting: Monday 8-9 PM E5 2103

    • General: Thursdays 8-9 PM E7 5343

    • EE Work Sessions: Tuesdays 7-8PM E5 2003 (The Bay)

  • Icarus timeline review tomorrow 9-10 pm, feel free to join!

  • Following this meeting @Daniel Puratich to go over adding a component (one simple one, one more complex one) to our Altium libraries for all newer members to see our WARG procedures.

Attendance:

In Person

Online

  • Ethan @Ethan Abraham

  • Kevin @Kevin Li

  • Elion

  • Sid

  • Steven @Steven Wang

  • Robson

  • Nolan @Nolan Haines

  • Stanley @Stanley Hao

  • Daniel @Daniel Puratich

  • Farris @Farris Matar

  • Jack @Jack Greenwood

  • Rayyan

Updates this week!

Cornflakes

March 11 Flight Test (Attendees: Daniel, Nolan, Robson, Elion)

March 18 Flight Test/Competition Simulation (Daniel, Ethan, Nolan)

  • Flight Test Documentation:

  • Servo(s) issues should be resolved before next flight test

    • if you know about/are interested in learning about our control system and helping to resolve this issue, ping @Nolan Haines

      • We will be working on this during tomorrow's EE work session

  • Harnessing is completed and there should be no other issues

  • @Nolan Haines to reach out to @Anthony Luo to discuss any other electrical things that we may want mounted

    • Notably a VTX system

    • Will be discussed at the ICARUS sync tomorrow

ICARUS Program

Wiring Diagram (Michael, Farris, Rayyan)

  • @Farris Matar @Michael Botros Rayyan: Will start reaching out to people

ZeroPilot Program

Assembly & Testing (Ethan)

  • Waiting for ZP3 sync meeting to determine how much work/assistance is required from EE side

    • @Daniel Puratich to schedule this

  • Once we determine what needs to be done, we can start assigning onsite members to Zeropilot tasks to be ready for competition

    • There will be validation and coordinating with EFS members in the future

Admin

ZP3 Sync Scheduling (Daniel)

  • A weekly sync for the ZeroPilot 3.0 program including EFS & EE will be scheduled in the coming days

Purchase Orders (Ethan, Daniel)

  • TME order blocked by customs payment, fixed today, connectors will come soon (we have connectors so this order is not critical)

  • EE February Procurement Order was placed

    • Contains components for aircraft harnessing as well as passives for Michael’s buck board

  • Michael’s Buck PCB & stencil was received

Bootcamp Revamp (Michael, Kevin, Farris)

  • Sync alongside Farris with Michael to go over layout & routing practices

  • Good progress on component sourcing and Digikey section of bootcamp

  • Trying to adjust bootcamp to meet the balance between Altium & EE theory!

    • Focusing on core ideas!

  • Robson would be up to help test this out as it’s finishing up!

PCBs

24-12,5 Buck (Ethan, Michael)

  • Ethan has brought boards and stencils into the bay

  • Components are ordered from above procurement order

  • Assembly scheduling will vary based on demand from other teams for other things though hoping to have this done in the coming weeks

12-5 Buck (Nolan)

  • Sundry PCB design tasks to finish the board design up!

4S 30A Motor Controller (Muhammad)

5-24V Boost (Steven)

  • @Daniel Puratich 1:1 to discuss this (Please ping me if I get caught up in stuff!!!)

  • Stuck on making the micro USB footprint

12S Servo Module (Stanley, Michael, Rayyan)

  • Pretty much finished finding components for buck IC, found components for current sense, can start putting other rest on components into Altium

    • Passives selected and will start putting them into Altium

  • Overcurrent protection circuit and components added to Altium schematic

  • Getting things into Altium is the next task

BMS (Kevin)

  • Project will be put on hold till after bootcamp revamp and competition

Bootcamper Progress Updates

  • Tom - Working on the current sense amplifier section, currently focused on finishing this as well as working on a Lidar firmware driver for the EFS team.

    • Midterms are done, Altium license is going

  • Robson - Final few questions about buck converter, but otherwise completed. If possible meet in the coming week to review and complete onboarding.

    • Around to help out with onsite stuff

  • @Jack Greenwood - Almost 95% done, will be submitting to Michael soon!

  • William - Awaiting bootcamp review !

  • Elion - Finished bootcamp today, send message to Michael today !