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:

Quick Links:

• Altium 365

• EE Asana

• 2023 System Architecture

Updates this week!

Admin:

• Reminder that Aircraft sync happens every Tuesday at 9pm.

  • EE members are encouraged to drop in and listen.

• Interested in becoming a pilot?

  • Checkout the IPP meetings and process!

• Flight test this weekend

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

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?

• @Taim Al-Dabbagh @Steven Wang

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.

  • @Ethan Abraham @Christopher Chung

6S ESC (Mena, Rayyan, Mostafa)

• Rayyan: Currently sourcing Power FETs for ESC

• Mena: Handed off to Mostafa. 10/28/2023 6S ESC Hand off - Meetings - WARG (atlassian.net)

• Mostafa: Went through buck convertor component calculations, got stuck at output capacitor. Sourced some of the components that weren’t yet sourced (for output capacitor I picked a tantalum cap for now similar to the one recommended by the datasheet).

• @Farris Matar to discuss control loop stability implications of output capacitor choice!

• Will update Asana with goals/timelines.

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

• Architecture plans ready for next aircraft sync. Will seek input from team and then move on to design/ordering components.

• 2023-11-01 LED Controller Sync - Meetings - WARG (atlassian.net)

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

• Boards cleaned up & ready for use now

• Project is now in EFS hands, Farris still on campus for rest of semester & can provide support

• Good work Farris and Michael!

Drone Battery PCB (Farris)

• Still need to take some measurements & draft a rough outline to determine price & power capabilities, will probably be some delay on this though as I’m bogged down by schoolwork

PDB (Tom)

• Continuing with trying to figure out a method to maximize the use of ADC resolution with variable voltage input.

• Last midterm finished yesterday, will have more time to get back on top of it.

  • Would like to finish before end of term.

  • Finish schematic design in next two weeks.

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

• 25-5V buck schematic done

• 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.

• Will redo some of the connecters and ports

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

• Jerry: Started routing, tasks are broken down on asana

Drone Wiring

• Flight test this weekend.

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Side Quest):

Why Capacitors Are Important For FPV Drones - Oscar Liang
https://noirfpv.com/drone-capacitors/
All About Multirotor Drone FPV Electronic Speed Controllers
What is a capacitor?

Will be assigned later. ^

Buck Converter Session Led By Farris:

Tuesday @ 5pm in the bay in the GCal.