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Updates this week!

Announcements

• EE Work Session on Saturday, Feb 3rd

• Competition in Quebec from May 24th - May 26th

• We ordered 3 PCBs yayyyyy

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

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim)

• @Taim Al-Dabbagh

still busy with interview, he will try again next week

12S ESC (Mena)

• @Mena Azab

Open

• Mena needs help, @Taim Al-Dabbagh and @Ryan Scomazzon are interested

• need to work on

  • Field oriented control firmware setup to know MCU pinout

  • microcontroller schematic

  • gate driver schematic

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

• @Rayyan Mahmood @Mostafa Hussein

• Mostafa: Completed initial component selection for new buck, will address comments and revise selection.

• Rayyan is researching on if motors draw 50A continuous current

• MOSFET selection is complete but power dissipation is too high for 50A

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

• @Neel Patel @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

• First iteration has been ordered!

  • Parker’s todos: clean up the silk screen, and research better options for a connector

• Neel will create digikey cart + JST board mount for RFD900

PDB (Tom)

• @Tom Chiu

• will sync this weekend

• working through redoing the block diagram to reflect recent desired architecture changes

• looking for high current output (8-12A), 55V+ max input voltage, and good thermal behaviour buck converter part

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

• @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

• Nolan can’t do 10:30pm EST

• maybe try to meet again on saturday

• Michael resized PCB to the same size as STM32 dev board

• going forward, routing → review → order

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

• @Jerry Tian

• PCB ordered, rev 1 design is DONE

ZP3 Rework (Anthony, Ryan)

• @Anthony Zhelnakov @Ryan Scomazzon

addressed Daniel’s schematic comments

will address layout comments later

IMU + magnetometer is nice to have

decided to add IMU

put jumper in the communication lines between IMU and connector to enable/disable

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Anthony)

• @Anthony Zhelnakov

came up with approx inductance of the drone

will confirm previous measurements after meeting

CAN Interface Board (Hardy)

• @Hardy Yu

Will talk to Hardy after the meeting

Flight Test

• 2024-02-03 Pegasus Efficiency Flight Test

Action items

1. order more JST GH pre-crimped cables