2024-05-15 EE weekly meeting

Owned by Jerry Tian
Last updated: 2024-05-15 by Ryan Scomazzon
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Meeting times:

  • EE Meeting: Wednesdays 7 PM EST E5 1006?

  • Leads Meeting: Monday 9 PM EST somewhere

  • Team Competition Aircraft Sync (AEAC): Tuesday 9 PM EST somewhere

 

Attendance:

In person

Online

In person

Online

 

 

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Updates this week!

Announcements/General updates

 

 

Active Projects

 

LED Board Rev 1 (Parker)

  • @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

  • 4 boards have been assembled and hardware tested!

    • Unfortunately it will not fly this comp as there’s concerns with the mounting possibly being unstable mechanically :(

  • The hope is to mount the boards briefly this Friday (Time not confirmed yet) in order to take some photos of the drone with some really cool lights to show at comp.

Sensor Cluster (Michael)

  • @Michael Botros

ESC CAN Adapter (Meghan)

  • @Meghan Dang

Unified Video System (Tom)

  • @Tom Chiu

GPS CAN Adapter (Omar)

  • @Omar El-Sawy

  • I’ve done the research required for my project (CAN and UART, and possible stm32 capabilities)

  • Block diagram will be done by end of the night → schematic plans to be finished somewhat next week

ELRS Redundant Diversity RX (Nolan)

  • @Nolan Haines

  • Block diagram basically done, schematic will start soon, will hopefully go fast

ZP3 Flight Interface Board (Anthony, Ryan)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov @Ryan Scomazzon

  • Digikey cart is ready aside from one component, which is out of stock. I am looking into replacement components but need help determining what is suitable.

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

  • @Jerry Tian

  • Will start looking at CAN servos this weekend

48V->12V,8V,5V @ 3A BEC (Buck Converter) (Ishman)

  • @Ishman Mann

Tracking Antenna Initial Concept W23 (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

  • @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

  • Jerry wanna see this assembled and tested

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

  • @Taim Al-Dabbagh

  • Any assembly plans?

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

  • @Rayyan Mahmood @Mostafa Hussein

  • Schematic for current sense and buck are complete and the buck pcb layout is also complete. Need have both schematics and the current sense components reviewed.

Boost Converter (Allan)

  • @Allan Liu

  • Almost done schematic, just gotta find replacement for a through hole component before I move onto pcb layout

Smoke Stopper (Anthony?)

  • @Anthony Zhelnakov

 

@Nolan Haines please add any other projects we recently started if I missed them.

New Projects

More ideas in https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2064417133