2023-09-28 EE Meeting

General Team Status/Schedule:

  • Meeting times:

    • EE Meeting: Thursdays 9 PM EST E5 1006

    • Leads Meeting: Wednesday 9 PM EST E5 1006

    • Team Competition Aircraft Sync: Tuesday 9 PM

  • Attendance:

Online

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Updates this week!

Admin

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Zen, Taim, Steven)

  • Zen handed off to Taim and Steven

  • Figuring out next steps (4 layer vs 2 layer, component layout, etc)

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

  • No progress this week

  • Goal for next meeting is to generate FOC firmware will all board parameters inputted into Workbench

6S ESC (Mena, Rayyan)

  • Continuing component selection

  • Component selection deadline for this weekend but will probably be updated

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

  • Sync maybe on Sunday (maybe work session)

  • Planning on having directors + ee-lead sync to discuss conops stuff for better knowledge of use case (sunday?)

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

  • FM: PCBs ordered from JLC and in production!

Drone Battery PCB (Farris)

  • FM: Didn’t get a chance to work on this, swamped w/ schoolwork

  • Aiming to work on schematic over weekend, nail out mechanical form factor over next week

PDB (Tom)

  • Chose PMOS for RPP, was down with a sore throat fever for 4 days, but will get back on component selection for peripherals.

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy)

  • Component selection complete

  • Part input

12S Servo Module (Stanley, Jack, Jerry)

  • Stanley: Nothing to add, will try to contribute more to the project in the coming week

  • Jerry: I reduced the board size to 30x30, aiming to get placement reviewed again this weekend

  • routing by next EE meeting ideally (+ review)

Drone Wiring

  • Pegasus Spin Up and Work session this Saturday!