2023-11-30 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

Online

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov

  • @Hardy Yu

  • @Jerry Tian

  • @Mena Azab

  • @Mostafa Hussein

  • @Nolan Haines

  • @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • @Rayyan Mahmood

  • @Ryan Scomazzon

  • @Tom Chiu

  • @Michael Botros

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Updates this week!

Admin:

  • Aircraft sync happens every Tuesday at 9pm.

    • EE members are encouraged to drop in and listen.

  • PCB rework session this Saturday at 3pm!

  • Drone harnessing session this Friday at 3pm! (Tentative)

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim, Steven)

  • @Taim Al-Dabbagh @Steven Wang

  • Fixing up layout, addressing comments left from layout review

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

  • @Ethan Abraham @Christopher Chung

  • After finals, too busy at the moment.

  • Decent progress achieved.

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

  • @Rayyan Mahmood @Mostafa Hussein

  • Mostafa: Completed part selection for buck and current sense, will work on schematics after finals.

  • Rayyan:

    • FET selection completed

    • Began schematic for Three Phase Inverter circuit

    • Updated Asana tasks due to missed time

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

  • @Neel Patel @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • First component was created, hoping to complete the second and upload to WARGs database tomorrow

  • Please document new design and changes on confluence.

  • Will sync with Neel

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

  • @Michael Botros @Farris Matar

  • No updates from EE, seems to be working.

Drone Battery PCB (Farris)

  • @Farris Matar

  • Confirmed dropped, not feasible?

PDB (Tom)

  • @Tom Chiu

    • Nothing else until after exams.

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

  • @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

  • Schematic basically finished, replaced connector schematic and cleaned up schematic a bit

    • Confirm header of servo

    • Polarity of balance connectors on LIPO battery.

      • Which end of connector is most positive and negative.

  • Schematic review soon

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

ZP3 Rework (Anthony, Ryan)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov @Ryan Scomazzon

  • Selected some of the connectors: ZP3 Flight Interface Board - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Asked EFS for any sensors/peripherals they want added to the new flight interface board. Waiting on reply. Plz document.

    • Only need Accelerometer and gyro

       

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Anthony)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov

  • No progress thus far, will work on it after exams.