2024-07-09 Electrical Director Sync

Attendance

• @Daniel Puratich

• @Neel Patel

• @Jerry Tian

Summarizing Last Meeting: 2024-07-07 Electrical Director Sync

How are the projects Nolan’s managing going?

• Tracking Antenna Controller: two people on it

• 48->12 Buck Converter: Board design done

• Buck-Boost Converter: on layout, altium issues, schem is unreviewed

• 6S Power Module: Component Selection

Nolan’s Project Goals

• Tracking Antenna Controller: getting layout going end of month rough draft

• Buck-Boost Converter: rough draft end of month

• 6S Power Module: schematic rough draft end of month

• Pegasus: Ready for flight test end of month. July 26th target electrically complete

Define which lead owns which projects clearly, during this session.

• Do we wanna do this?

  • Is the current system very broken?

  • Are members getting enough mentorship to keep going?

• Want to split projects more evenly?

  • Seems like yes

  • Lighting Boards @Nolan Haines with Parker → Lighting Boards on Peggy 2 Mid-September

  • Sensor Cluster @Nolan Haines signed NDA → Mid-fall have rev 1 boards

  • 12S Servo Module @Jerry Tian → Test boards & assemble five of them before July 31st

  • 6S Servo Module Rev 1 @Jerry Tian with Daniel → Assembled boards for fixed wing by end of September

  • ESC CAN Adapter @Nolan Haines with Daniel → not continuing after design

  • Unified Video System@Neel Patel → by next month Neel to figure out this project is and come up with longer term goal for discussion

  • GPS CAN Adapter @Nolan Haines → by next month Neel to figure out this project is and come up with longer term goal for discussion

  • ELRS Redundant Diversity RX @Nolan Haines → pcb end of term, validated fully by october

  • ZeroPilot 3.0 Hardware (ZP3HW) @Nolan Haines → integrate into fixed wing

  • 12V->5V @ 5A Buck Converter Board @Nolan Haines with Daniel → integrate into fixed wing & houston by mid Fall term

  • 48V->12V,8V,5V @ 3A BEC (Buck Converter) @Jerry Tian → flesh out the next rev and future of project after validating boards by mid fall term

  • ELRS Gemini @Nolan Haines → working boards end of term, rev 2 design completed end of F24

  • Tracking Antenna Electronics @Nolan Haines with Ryan → target working boards end of term

  • GPS Breakout @Jerry Tian ← PCB done end of month, end of September working boards to EFS

  • 12S Power Module @Neel Patel → by next month Neel to figure out this project is and come up with longer term goal for discussion

  • 6S Power Module @Neel Patel → by next month Neel to figure out this project is and come up with longer term goal for discussion

  • Ground Station HMI Controller @Neel Patel → have something ready and tested for comp, prototype working end of F24, by next month Neel to figure out this project is and come up with longer term goal for discussion

  • RPi Interface @Nolan Haines → board design end of S24, working boards mid F24

  • Battery Management Systems @Jerry Tian → design custom battery system, end of F24

  • Smoke Stopper @Neel Patel → low priority but need a lead to pay attention

  • Pegasus 2 S24 EE Assembly Planning + Documentation @Nolan Haines → peggy 2 assembled electrically end of month

• Do more non-pcb projects?

  • More harness and validation

    • @Jerry Tian to scope harness and validation goals on a confluence page before F24

  • pcb stuff is very time consuming

  • better for newer members to come to sessions

Improvements to EE Meeting

• Good Attendance! Up to ten people usually

• Rescheduling EE meeting for lead availability

  • don’t wanna do this bc time works well for Nolan

Organize confluence projects however u guys want!

Delegating Tasks to PMs to relieve load on leads?

• One PM for validation, one PM for harness?

• no changes this term