ToC

EE Vision:

• Largely agree with Daniel’s Vision

• Three main components to EE (Harnessing, Validation, PCB Design)

  • Possibly have 3 leads consistently, one for each specialty

• Weekly work sessions this term (Lots of board bring up and validation)

• Need to balance between Learning and Getting projects down

• Choose more achievable comp specific projects

• Have defined design phase ie Spring term, halfway through fall if needed

• Have board bring up and testing in fall and winter term

• Have dedicated harnessing person, beg/strongly encourage ppl to start working on harness,

  • there are houston harness shortening tasks available @Jerry Tian very beginner friendly task

• connector standard on all custom PCBs:

  • power: XT

  • signal: JST-GH

Priority Boards: (Design, Bringup)

• Custom BEC (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

• Sensor Cluster (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

• Gemini RX Diversity (Spring 2024, Fall 2024/Winter 2025)

• Video Transmission Board (Spring 2025, Fall 2025)

• 12S ESC (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

• Next Gen PDB (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

• High current power module (Done, Spring 2024)

• LED Controller (Done, ASAP)

Nice to have:

• Smoke Stoppers

• 6S ESC (TBD)

• ZP3 Interface (Done, Spring 2024)

• Servo Module

PCB Projects (Design, Bringup)

• We should only pursue projects that are very tangible and clearly optimize something. The following are in order of priority and should be pursued by EE for these reasons:

  • Sensor Cluster (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

    • todo

      • design board with sensors and a CAN node

    • use case

      • future vehicles

    • why

      • CAN node for minimal harnessing connection of a lot of sensors to the FC

      • we commonly use these sensors

    • who

      • michael botros

  • ESC CAN Adapter (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

    • todo

      • design

    • use case

      • future vehicles

    • why

      • CAN node for minimal harnessing connection to the FC

      • we need to space out ESCs on larger aircrafts

    • who

      • Meghan Dang

  • ELRS Gemini (Next rev) (Spring 2024, Fall 2024) pending assignment

    • todo

      • make the board smaller

    • use case

      • for competition

    • why

      • improved rf link quality

      • doesn't exist commercially

  • LED Board Rev 1 (ASAP)

    • todo

      • assemble and use

    • use case

      • for realism points for competition and cool ig posts

      • pegasus

      • future vehicles

    • who

      • Parker

  • ZeroPilot 3.0 Hardware (ZP3HW) (Done, S24)

    • todo

      • assemble flight interface board

      • fix oscillator on primary

    • use case

      • for EFS M2 and beyond ZPSW objectives

      • never be competition viable

    • who

      •  

  • 48V->12V,8V,5V @ 3A BEC (Buck Converter) (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

    • todo

      • design, test, etc.

    • use case

      • all future vehicles

    • why

      • for reducing the number of power supplies we have on the drone right now

      • simplify all the power harnessing we have

    • who

      • Ishman

  • Tracking Antenna Initial Concept W23 (Bring up S24)

    • why

      • for reducing harness count on the antenna head

    • todo

      • combine nathan’s and Michael’s board, best of both worlds

  • 12S Servo Module (Bring up and Validation S24)

    • todo

      • assemble and test

      • add CAN support: Servo Module Improvements

    • use case

      • future plane or vtal

    • why

      • for spacing out servos

      • minimizing wire complexity on upcoming airframes

      • more stable power to far away servos

  • ELRS Quadversity (Spring 2024, Fall 2024/Winter 2025)

    • todo

      • design

      • test

      • make smaller

    • use case

      • all future vehicles

    • why

      • improved rf link over gemini

    • who

      • Nolan Haines

  • GPS CAN Adapter (S24, F24)

    • todo

      • make GPS’s work with CAN

    • use case

      • all future vehicles

    • why

      • allows us to space them more without SI concerns

      • busability

    • who

      • New bootcamper (Omar)

  • Unified Video System (Spring 2025, Fall 2025)

    • todo

      • make video system sit on one panel

    • use case

      • all future vehicles

    • why

      • improves packaging

      • reduces harnesses

      • reduces emi problems

  • 24V->12V,5V @ 2A Buck Converter Board (Already done?)

    • use case

      • for ground validation

      • unlikely to be competition viable

    • why

      • fun

  • 12V->5V @ 3A Buck Converter Board (Already done?)

    • use case

      • for ground validation

      • unlikely to be competition viable

    • why

      • fun

    • 12V->5V @ 5A Buck Converter Board

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=EL&title=12S%20High%20Current%20Power%20Module (Done, Spring 2024)

    • maybe viable for competition

    • needs to offer some improvement on COTS to be viable

    • validate and test our copy of the COTs for now

    • plan for the future here, we need to think of exactly what functionality we want and what’s achievable.

  • Zeropilot 4.0 Hardware (ZP4HW) (On Hold)

    • todo

      • design

    • use case

      • future competition vehicles

    • why

      • for some integration improvement in the future

  • 4S ESC (Archived)

    • for fun

    • never be competition viable

  • Boost Converter (F24, W25)

    • for ground validation

  • 12S PDB (F24, W25)

    • for future vehicles i guess but we dont have any vehicles of this size planned

  • 12S ESC (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

    • never be competition viable

    • for fun

  • 6S ESC (TBD)

    • never be competition viable

    • for fun

  • Drone Power Routing Board (Cool but later)

    • lots of integration overhead

    • who: would need to have someone ambitious, shouldnt be pursued for now

• Insane ideas that are years out but possible in Daniel’s opinion (and will stay on Daniel’s list of personal projects and if I get anywhere in the next few years I will merge back into WARG projects):

  • RF Unified Link

    • HAM band (70cm or 2m)

    • RF Heartbeat initially, then more comes later

    • CAN interface to FC

    • variable airside power, very high power ground side

    • not started but lots of COTS hardware could be leveraged

  • More efficient conversion from 48->12

    • I have started this as a personal project, finishing is a whole nother challenge

    • fully custom including magnetic

EE Meeting Time

Tentatively Wednesdays @ 7:00 pm

Boot Camp

• Mena is interested in reviewing bootcamps

• Maybe new roles for harnessing and validation which don’t require completion of Altium Project

  • Still would require knowledge of PCB Design

  • Don’t need to complete PCB design bootcamp

  • Require attendance in 1 or 2 workshops to pass