2024-01-18 EE Meeting

Meeting times:

  • EE Meeting: Thursdays 8 PM EST E5 1006

  • Leads Meeting: Monday 8 PM EST E5 2004

  • Team Competition Aircraft Sync: Monday 7 PM EST

 

Attendance:

In person

Online

  •  @Jerry Tian

  • @Neel Patel

  • @Taim Al-Dabbagh

  • Ian Van den Steen

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov

  • @Ishman Mann

  • Cory 8Smith

  • @Mena Azab

  • @Mostafa Hussein

  • @Nolan Haines

  • Kevin Chen

  • @Ryan Scomazzon

  • @Rayyan Mahmood

  • @Hardy Yu

Updates this week!

Announcements

 

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim, Steven)

  • @Taim Al-Dabbagh @Steven Wang

  • layout is done, need to run PDN analyzer

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

  • @Ethan Abraham @Christopher Chung

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

  • @Rayyan Mahmood @Mostafa Hussein

  • Rayyan:

    • MOSFET Selection needs review

    • Working on STM32 component selection

    • Need help in understanding how to use Altium365 enviroment

  • Mostafa:

    • selecting another buck converter

    • looking into RC filter for current sense

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

  • @Neel Patel @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • Will work on revisions ASAP

  • going through comments left on the layout

PDB (Tom)

  • @Tom Chiu

    • Out with Flu

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

  • @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

  • Nolan will work on it soon

  • May not be completed by competition as it would need to be fully tested by end of february

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

  • @Jerry Tian

  1. Cleaning up PCB layout, adding ground stitching vias and cutout polygons

  2. Scheduled to be ordered by Jan 31

ZP3 Rework (Anthony, Ryan)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov @Ryan Scomazzon

to be discussed after meeting

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Anthony)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov

came up with analytic formulas

estimated timeline: 2-3 weeks

CAN Interface Board (Hardy)

  • EFS (Hardy) will be doing project scope and selecting ic and interface components so they can start programming

  • EE will select other passive components and do board layout

Flight Test