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

  • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1169092810977325157

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim, Steven)

• Got PCB layout reviewed, will address shortly before starting routing

• @Steven Wang

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

• Ethan in India

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

• Mostafa: Attended buck control session by Farris, and decided on using electrolytic capacitor for output cap, started reading into current sense.

• Rayyan: Have Power MOSFETs selection down to a couple MOSFETs. Will have selection finalized by next meeting along with majority of everything else related to gate driver circuit.

  • I also attended Farris' Control Loop Learning Session and learned a lot and feel big brain now.

• Both of have our Asana goals updated.

  • Rayyan: Component selection for gate driver circuit done by Nov 30th. MCU circuit by winter break. By end of winter break to have schematics.

  • Mostafa: Buck and current sense component selection done by Nov 30ths. Schematics done by end of winter break.

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

• Setup another meeting to go over component selection.

  • Meet before next Sync (Saturday)

  • Neel will be gone start of December. Plan to have at least component selection and parts ordered. Leaving assembly and testing.

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

• @Jerry Tian will take a look after the flight test.

  • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1112251506339618836

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)

• Figured out which components are required, now need to determine component values.

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

• @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros Please update.

• Schematic is close to being finished for voltage sensing. Measuring the differential voltage between all 6 cells. Low battery indicator and automatic shutoff.

• Overcurrent protection, SD Card, Shield connectors remaining.

  • SD Card and shield connectors @Hardy Yu

  • Overcurrent protection unassigned. @Nolan Haines

• Goal to have board done before exam season.

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

• Jerry: pushed deadline by 1 week to Nov 23rd since I'm not confident with PCB trace routing.

  • Will talk to Daniel.

ZP3 Rework (Anthony)

https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1111453504721137685

@Anthony Zhelnakov

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Side Quest):

@Anthony Zhelnakov

https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1124835115239997520
Why Capacitors Are Important For FPV Drones - Oscar Liang
Do You Need a Capacitor on a Drone? Here’s What I Recommend
All About Multirotor Drone FPV Electronic Speed Controllers
What is a capacitor?

New Members!

@Mostafa Hussein

@Anthony Zhelnakov