2024-06-05 Electrical Director Sync

Directors would like status updates and timelines from EE Leads for active projects.

• walking through most of them below

What micro and CAN transceiver is selected to commonize for our projects?

• Do we all agree on conclusion in 2024-05-17 EFS Director Sync ?

What is timeline for ZP HW readiness for EFS M2?

• boards are one side done but only half way,

• Friday will assemble the rest to give to EFS

Nice to have @Daniel Puratich write / record a video on Altium shortcuts

• t g a repour polygons

• e e a deselect all

• shift s to show only this layer

• ctrl scroll wheel change layer instead of clicking

• space bar to rotate

• shift space to change corner style (for schem and pcb lines) (for rounding edges)

• e a paste special (paste on current layer)

• ctrl w place wire

• x and y

• ctrl f flip board

• selection filter

• will throw in backlog as a task

  • soldering guide → find one online?

  • crimping stuff

  • altium shortcuts guide

What do directors think about some new tasks on writing automated test scripts?

• Why?

• We don’t do a lot of testing

• Would be nice to have automated testing

• would help with RCA: Fried LED Boards

• we need to get some hardware: weef plus sponsors list

• wait till fall to push this, Jerry will drive when onsite

Status and Timeline for all projects in 2024-05-16 Electrical Director Sync

• High Priority Projects

  • intended for our upcoming system plans for 2025 comp cycle

  • at least one person should be actively driving for all these projects

  • Servo Module Improvements

    • no progress recently

    • there are no people to work on this right now

    • difficult project

    • more senior member project for validation here

  • Unified Video System

    • Tom is on this

    • progress is happening here

  • LED Board Rev 2

  • Tracking Antenna Controller Improvements (M3)

    • Tracking Antenna Long Term Vision

    • Ryan is on this, wanted to work on this

    • test circuits on Michael’s board for STM32 tracking ant board

    • copy over as much as possible

  • ZP3 End Goal

    • Ryan is on this

    • assembled?

    • get EFS testing if it’s done

  • Sensor Cluster

    • Michael is working on

    • unsure on timeline for this

• Medium Priority Projects

  • long term usable but not planned on included for 2025 comp cycle

  • ESC CAN Adapter

    • ESC specific

  • GPS CAN Adapter

    • Omar

    • progress is happening here, design is early on

  • 12V->5V @ 5A Buck Converter Board

    • new buck ic

    • output connectors

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

    • layout nearly done?

  • ELRS Quadversity

    • component selection is done

    • having first rev be easier to debug

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2539915187

    • lower priority but worth doing

    • unassigned

• Low Priority Projects

  • these aren’t useful currently but are still being pursued I guess

  • RCA: Fried LED Boards

    • nobody pursuing right now

    • might be interesting

    • issue is hard to recreate which makes debug difficult

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

    • needs to be assembled

    • leaving unassigned for now

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2115010797

    • seems far away

    • leave him on it as a learning thing?

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2250866689

    • Mostafa, letting him finish it, need to talk to EFS here

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2534572039

    • custom battery just isn’t scoped yet

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2528509977

    • assigned, worth shifting resources away from this

    • extremely low priority

• Stalled Projects with no further progress happening for this term

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2530705441

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2116091907

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2506883090 stalled

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2246017323 ← easily done COTS, stalled, took tom off of this

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2311651382 ← not viable conceptually

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2120089637 stalled

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2250670083 stalled

  • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2551119891 ← easily done COTS

Review EE support anticipated for team programs

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ARCHS22/pages/2556100616

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ARCHS22/pages/2556133403

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ARCHS22/pages/2556133415

• You’ll notice all the high priority projects are directly relevant for this!!

• Having some EE members involved in the architecture syncs will help people understand the system

Time Stuff

• no notes.