Document structure proposal:

Need to determine which sub-teams are responsible for each section

Need to determine due dates to keep us on track: (try and complete before christmas break)

• Skeleton/outline - due October 1st (?)

• Draft - due early/mid November (nov 6th ish)

• Review - due early December (dec 6th ish)

• Final - due January 15th

Generally on track, no significant changes of note.

Mech to look at reducing weight, but those reductions will be limited

• Baseframe + Motors (carbon fiber, aluminum, 3d printed stuff, motors, PDB, ESC, Wiring) 4.2 kg

• ~1.5kg of electronics so far no jetson/rpi/gemini/payload/radios

• Batteries @ 850g each → 6 batteries -> 9.2kg total drone (5.1 kg of which is batteries)

• no cabin, no jetson/rpi/gemini/payload/radios

Weight is a problem

• 15kg limit per comp but we aim to be much below this

• Mech looking at weight reduction

• 8 kg goal, 10kg abs max is everything included (including barbies)

  • if we exceed this it will be problems :d

Once flight tests need to decide 4 or 6 batteries and ensure we get flight time we want.

Some ideas/inspo:

Open

Open

The first design seems really simple to integrate onto the current air-frame and very manufacturable.

We have some ideas to allow it to be pretty easy to iterate on the wall shape (ie flat, curved, etc.) according to aero sims + testing. We would like to have “hot-swap” aero components so we can get something easy done quickly, then work on more advanced stuff in parallel with other subteams' use of the drone

A few ways cargo could be integrated, cargo compartment below passenger compartment (maybe stairs somehow a part of this??) or behind like the first image. Could also sell this as a “safety” feature?

Curved thin polycarb or something similar is easy to do for windows and looks pretty cool