Updates this week!

Announcements

• Bakery Night on Saturday, Jan 27th https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1198795047664091186

• Team Roster https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D

• 30 min (Bootcamp) work sessions before & after EE meetings

• If you are onsite this term please assign your self the EE on-site role in discord #role-signup

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim)

• @Taim Al-Dabbagh

Taim is busy, no progress

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

• @Ethan Abraham @Christopher Chung

Hand this off to Mena?

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

• @Rayyan Mahmood @Mostafa Hussein

• Rayyan: MOSFET selected - need review on it and also need a quick rundown of altium365

• Mostafa: Completed Buck Comparison + Decision Matrix; updating confluence with results and will share link after meeting.

old comp

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

• @Neel Patel @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

• adding new header for the testpoints

• pull-up resistor for IC reset pin & external clock not needed, see justification on confluence

• Neel will backup this weekend

PDB (Tom)

• @Tom Chiu

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

• @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

• Not happennning for competition

• Daniel has opinion about the layout, there will be a meeting this weekend

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

• @Jerry Tian

• Board design & review is complete, it’s gonna be ordered with LED controller and RFD900 breakout

ZP3 Rework (Anthony, Ryan)

• @Anthony Zhelnakov @Ryan Scomazzon

• All connectors updated to JST

• Connector routing done !!

• Decided to not go with an IMU

  • EFS don’t really it

  • have to re-do zp3 main board to route pins up to the interface board for IMU

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Anthony)

• @Anthony Zhelnakov

• no progress

CAN Interface Board (Hardy)

• @Hardy Yu

• 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

• 2024-01-27 Pegasus + Houston Flight Test

• ping @Jerry Tian if you know about/are interested in learning about:

  • build & design harness

  • integration work with EFS (seeing the big picture)