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:

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• Altium 365 Web

• EE Asana

• Altium License Renewal

• 2023 System Architecture

Updates this week!

Admin:

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• Meeting at 9:30pm by Anni that goes over drone propulsion systems. Electrical members are encouraged to join. Give you a better understanding of the architecture!!

• Reminder that Aircraft sync happens every Tuesday at 9pm. EE members are encouraged to drop in and listen

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim, Steven)

• Engineering decisions made and documented in meeting minutes

  • 10-04-2023 EE High Current Power Module Discussion - Meetings - WARG (atlassian.net)

• Timeline? @Steven Wang @Taim Al-Dabbagh

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

• Firmware generation and ioc stuff probably isn’t getting done until after midterms

• Board may or may not be completed for end of term. Need to sync with Chris

  • FOC firmware is complex and requires alot of time to ensure that everything is correct.

6S ESC (Mena, Rayyan)

• Rayyan: No updates; busy with midterms

• Mena not behaving.

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

• Neel: Could not make it to this meeting but here are my updates

• Neel: Me and Parker will be meeting sometime on Saturday to discuss design decisions and get a block diagram of some sort prepared for new design.

• Neel: As discussed in the prior SYNC meeting this board will now be independent of pixhawk inputs and the LEDS will always be one

• Neel: Some research needs to be done in how to achieve strobing for one of the LEDs (555 timer was suggested)

• Neel: Research needs to be done on what type of reflectors can be used for LEDs

• Neel: Ideally basic design will be figured out by this weekend and components will be chosen by next weekend

  • 2023-10-01 LED Controller Sync - Meetings - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Agreed upon timelines: - at risk possibly due to midterms.

    1. Architecture plans for next week. (research and decisions)

    2. Order components end of October.

    3. Full working prototype for end of term.

• EE leads will be invited for next meeting

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

• FM: Got an email saying PCBs just arrived today

• Assembly work session?

Drone Battery PCB (Farris)

• FM: Lots of experimenting with concepts & examining drone + batteries to see what kind of design could be feasible. Will meet with Anthony & Michael today to further discuss options

• Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

PDB (Tom)

• @Tom Chiu Please update status?

  • From last week: 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, Michael)

• 25-5V buck schematic done

  • RPP still needs to be implemented. Schematic needs to be reviewed.

  • Possible delay due to midterms

  • @Michael Botros @Daniel Puratich Can you review?

• Schematic still throws some errors but I think they're easy to fix

• After review onto layout I suppose?

• Michael will continue to work on power analysis.

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

• Jerry: Finished 2nd version of component placement. I will discuss the layout in details with Daniel in person on Saturday.

• Board should be ready to order next Sunday if Daniel approves layout.

Drone Wiring

• Spin up completed and strap-down test this weekend (unconfirmed)