2024-04-04 EE Meeting

Meeting times:

  • EE Meeting: Thursdays 8 PM EST E5 1006 (Last one of W24)

  • Leads Meeting: Monday 8 PM EST E5 2004

  • Team Competition Aircraft Sync (AEAC): Monday 7 PM EST E7 4043 or E5 1006

 

Attendance:

In person

Online

In person

Online

  • @Jerry Tian

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov

  • @Nolan Haines

  • @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • @Ryan Scomazzon

  • @Allan Liu

  • @Ishman Mann

  • @Taim Al-Dabbagh

 

Quick Links:

Updates this week!

Announcements/General updates

 

  • Paintball Social: Friday, April 5, at 7:00 PM, react in discord if you plan on going

  • Safety Captain: is retiring, please let us know if you're interested!

  • PCB orders

    • High Current Power Module

    • LED controller rev 1.1

    • Tracking Antenna

    • ZP3 interface

likely this weekend or next week

 

Active Projects

Drone Harness (Neel)

  • @Neel Patel

High Current Power Module (Taim)

  • @Taim Al-Dabbagh

Battery Elimination Circuit (Ishman)

  • @Ishman Mann

  • component selection ready to review

  • EMI filter not done

    • figuring out which standard to follow

  • potentially a vsense at output to monitor harness voltage drop

12S ESC (Mena)

  • @Mena Azab

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

  • @Rayyan Mahmood @Mostafa Hussein

  • Rayyan:

    • No updates - busy week

LED Controller (Parker)

  • @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • confluence needs to be updated ASAP

    • will update next week (maybe monday)

  • Submitted today and awaiting review

  • @Nolan Haines will review after meeting

PDB (Tom)

  • @Tom Chiu

  • Finished some of the calculations for component values for the design.

  • Added the calculations to the Atlassian page.

  • Will continue with the component calculations and selection.

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

  • @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

  • 99% done

  • still need to adress some details by @Michael Botros

ZP3 Rework (Anthony, Ryan)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov @Ryan Scomazzon

  • only need to address I2c pull up resistors

Redundant Diversity ELRS , RF project (Nolan)

  • @Nolan Haines

  • still doing research, learning ELRS

  • hoping to have a schematic early S24

5V-24V Boost Board (Allan)

  • @Allan Liu

  • needs assessment & design requirements done

  • next step is block diagram