2023-07-06 EE Meeting

General Team Status/Schedule:

  • Meeting times:

    • EE Meeting: Thursdays 7-8 PM EST E5 2103

    • Leads Meeting: Thursdays 9-10 PM EST E5 2103

    • Team Competition Aircraft Sync: Monday 7:30-8:15 PM

  • Attendance:

In Person

Online

Parker

Michael

Jerry

Zen

Neel

Hardy

Chris

Mena

Ethan

Chris Chung

Farris

Jack

Stanley

Xierumeng

Updates this week!

Admin

  • Getting more members involved in Weekly Mondays syncs

  • ELRS workshop and plane wiring workshop this Saturday from 2-5:30 PM

  • ZP3 work session from 11AM-1:30PM

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Zen, Chris)

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

  • Component selection complete

  • All components to be added to library by July 13

  • Digikey order will be going out very soon for important chips

6S ESC (Mena, Rayyan)

  • Project sort of on schedule? Deadlines have been shifted to be more aggressive.

  • Rayyan will be busy for next few days

LED Controller (Bennett)

  • Need to reach out to Ben

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

Project currently behind timeline

Michael:

  • Schematic almost complete, inter IC connections complete, Power complete. Just need connector for plugging into TX16 and fan power

  • Need sync with Farris

  • Adding safety features to this board?? (RPP, TVS, Overcurrent)

  • Need to do design review with Ethan and Daniel

PDB (Tom, Matthew)

  • Finished block diagram

  • Currently on component selection for bucks, documenting on confluence

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy)

  • had broken down the pcb into smaller tasks

  • component selection is ongoing, try getting it done this weekend

12S Servo Module (Stanley, Jack)

Stanley:

  • Had sync up with Jack

  • Current sense resistor chosen, will show Jack how to add component to Altium and swap out the one in the current schematic

  • Did some quick research about RC snubber, I don’t think we need one?

  • Should be able to request schematic/footprint review before next meet

OSD (Neel, Jerry)

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Bootcamper Progress Updates

Parker done bootcamp