2023-07-20 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

 

Jerry

Parker

Stanley

Zen

Michael

Farris

Ethan

Updates this week!

Admin

  • No work session this weekend

  • Push wiring diagram project (we want to start assembling electrical at end of the term/beginning of next term)

  • Drone name suggestions

  • Flight test on the 23rd

  • @Michael Botros should try to host session on Sunday for footprint/altium tutorial

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Zen, Chris)

  • Zen: finished schematic for 12V buck, current sense and I/O

  • No progress from Chris

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

  • Further research conducted on high-side driving for H-bridge

  • Component progress from Chris. Not all footprints/symbols have been created though

  • Digikey Order for MCU and gate driver IC came in!

6S ESC (Mena, Rayyan)

  • Majority of passive components finalized

  • Starting on footprints in Altium

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

  • Sync on Sunday

    • Divide work and set deadlines

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

Michael:

  • All schematic actions items are done, ready to start helping Farris with rough PCB placement

Farris:

  • Helped finish up schematic action items, started on some rough placement and basic layout

PDB (Tom)

  • @Michael Botros needs to check in with Tom

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Rukshi)

  • @Michael Botros should follow up on plan

12S Servo Module (Stanley, Jack, Jerry)

Stanley:

  • Addressed review feedback assigned to me, still working on revising buck input capacitance.

Jerry:

  • I need help with Altium Library

Bootcamper Progress Updates

  • No bootcampers currently