2024-06-06 Mechanical Director Sync

  • Attendance

    • @Nathan Green

    • @Smile Khatri

    • @Daniel Puratich

Topic

Notes

Discussion

Topic

Notes

Discussion

Tracking Antenna

  • Smile spoke with Derek about Antenna Tracker changes

  • Things to improve mechwise

    • larger baseplate so Gemini board is not overhanging

    • antenna wires not reaching gemini easily

    • No mounting for eps and small boards

    • stand-offs for GPS and compass (get it away from any magnetic things)

  • Questions:

    • Are we okay with having Antenna tracker and VTX antenna as separate?

    • Mechanical headache to incorporate into one

  • Need to get started on tracking antenna ASAP, this project may take a while. It already took quite a bit of time to get up to what we have currently.

Fixed wing

  • We should have one fixed wing program - small EFS fixed wing

  • Hesitant to invest carbon fiber and expensive components into a large fixed wing that will not fly at comp., save this for VTOL - Smile

  • Do not want to divest too much focus away from Pegasus 2.0, hence I (Smile) strongly want to work on only 1 (maybe 2 small) fixed wing

    • kinda new territory for mech

  • Slightly concerned about bandwidth in the fall

    • new members will join but that means more mentorship. Conops unknown

  • mostly covered in last meeting

  • bandwidth concern here

  • timelines should be discussed

    • goal is have a system by end of term

    • CONOPS release september ish

Pegasus 2.0

  • leave as it is for the most part, assemble it mechanically

  • Top lid for waterproofing is the biggest project for now

  • Mechanical assembly for Peggy 2 shouldn’t take long

    • new landing gear

    • Adding waterproofing

  • Harnessing for peggy 2 (not mech but yea)

  • no big changes required

  • no peggy 3 for now

    • wait for conops here

Houston

 

  • Workload

    • is alright now

    • research is iffy

  • mech meetings are goin pre short

    • 15-25mins for mech meeting

    • don’t waste people’s time, this time length is chilling

  • flight tests this term

    • autonomy maybe end of term or later

    • houston return to service soon

    • efs fixed wing maybe end of term or later