• @Conall Kingshott @Nathan Green

• Clamping blocks with side shroud mounting ability underway by @Jonathan Di Giorgio

  • 3d printed, hopefully stop some vibe in the arm, some metal parts in there and clips to mount the battery shrouds

• Photo:

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• No other major developments, frame seems to be holding together well from testing.

• @Alison Thompson @Evan Janakievski @Georgia Vachon Westerlund

• Some awesome work is being done on the cabin, first rev is scheduled to be done by tomorrow’s mech meeting with goal to have it manufactured by end of December so we can flight test.

  • give time for people to see it and test!

• This revision WILL NOT have doors, windows, seats, cargo compartment, etc. It is purely to test geometry and flight characteristics while mech team works on integrating all of those things.

  • cosmetic features will come later

  • frame to mount things onto cabin!

• This also allows us to change geometry if needed.

• You can read about specific updates in mech docs

  • (will link later I’m writing this last minute)

• First version of battery shroud made by @Andy Zhang.

  • @Conall Kingshott screwed it up, but new version will be done soon, and we can start doing layups.

  • small mech detail but we get it fixed

• Important note that this will all add some amount of weight.

  • we can test flying with or without battery shrouds

• done this week and try to get it laid up this weekend or next weekend

• clips integrated into the design, plug and play

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• @Smile Khatri mech, attached mount!

• Attached the mount onto the arm last week. Currently, the lidar and OFS are attached and wired up thanks to @Mena Azab .

  • The wires are zip-tied to the tube so they aren’t flying all over the place when the drone is flying

  • So far so good!

  • Some components can be hard to access the connectors? Shouldn't be a big deal

    • will be worked on from Smile to add in more spacing

• Some things to improve upon:

  • Slight wobbling because hole for the tube is a little big.

    • Just need to reduce the hole diameter and reprint to find the sweet spot.

    • To fix this week

  • Might be challenging to insert/remove the Clevis pin because it is directly under the tube (but it wasn’t too bad when I tried it). I can redesign if it’s too inconvenient but I don’t see it being a huge issue. If everyone thinks I should redesign so that the clevis pin should be perpendicular to the tube length-wise I could but there’s a high chance it adds more weight to the mount ;/

    • can be tricky to remove, but may be fine

  • Need to add more space for the wires (it still fits but would be nicer to have more space) and the FPV camera since the plate is kind of close to the tube.

• There was a concern about the leg appearing in the CV camera’s field of view (which would affect object detection stuff) but I tested this with the autonomy leads and the legs don’t appear in the CV camera (LET’S GOOOO). But not sure if the leg will appear in the FPV camera (also which subteam should I inquire about stuff relating to the FPV cam?)

  • so far so good

  • Was tested with the camera and it looks good!

  • Center of mass depends heavily on battery decisions!

If anyone has suggestions on how I can improve the mount please lmk, would love to hear your thoughts!

• @Nathan Green @Georgia Vachon Westerlund @Megan Spee

• Nothing to report on, will be discussed at mech meeting!