2023-08-07: EFS Leads BOT meeting

Owned by Aaditya Chaudhary
Last updated: 2023-09-08 by Christopher Chung
2 min read

  • Organize EFS space

    • Rename from Zp space to EFS

    • Hide legacy pages

    • Update orientation/new member pages

    • Fix bootcamp name and structure (why does it say 2021 bootcamp? )

  • Projects

    • ZP3.5 (obviously)

      • what milestones do we want to hit?

        • milestone 2

    • Tracking antenna

      • What state is it in now?

        • all drivers are done individually and tested with hardware

        • mavlink passthrough

        • gps

        • bmx160… but now having issues with calibration

        • algorithm is done but not tested

      • what state do we want it in?

        • want to aim to complete this term

      • Who should take charge of this project?

        • Chris

    • COTS-support Projects

      • gemini project

        • is a “new” open source ELRS board… the task would be to flash and implement the board

      • CAN sensor board w/ EE

        • protocol breakout with a CAN transceiver to connect to ardupilot

        • each sensor would have its own pcb and firmware and send their data over the CAN bus

      • Add strobe light support for ardu

        • neopixel support

      • add better/cheaper rtk GPS support into ardupilot

        • add any GPS on the ground could be used as an RTK GPS

        • seems like ardu supports this for SOME GPS, so the task would likely be adding support for cheaper GPSs

      • support 5.8 GHz xbees or elrs for ardupilot ( ? )

        • xbees not supported on ardupilot???

        • what is this?

        • trying to get higher baudrate from elrs and xbee modules when moving to 5.8 GHz

      • Lightweight OSD?

        • dropped as a project from ee because the common chips werent available to do OSD

        • implement yourself manually using fpga or micro

      • Using a gpio to pull up or down after syncing with video feed

        • use ardu or something to activate a video mux from the rc link

    • ZP3 board bring up

      • test basic peripherals

      • test drivers

      • test M1

  • Decide on time slots

    • meeting slot

      • 7:30pm Wednesday, 30 minutes

    • worksession slot

      • 8pm wednesday, 1 hour

    • tutorial?

      • 8pm wednesday, 1 hour

    • bootcamp help slot?

      • Ayoung: Thursday 8pm

      • Chris: Monday 8pm

      • Aadi: Fill in

    • book rooms

      • E7 4043

Action Items

Aadi:

  • Organize EFS space

  • Creating confluence docs about each COTS task

Chris:

  • Follow with tracking antenna

  • Determine deadline for tracking antenna to be used in comp

    • Most likely be end of this term

  • Change onboarding times

  • update google calendar with efs meeting times

Ayoung:

  • Milestone 1 follow up

  • Determine first ground test for milestone one

  • Book E7 4043 7:30pm - 9pm for wednesday

  • Post meeting time

Aidan:

  • Follow up with EE about interface board with actual connectors