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2024-07-10 Mechanical Lead Director Sync

2024-07-10 Mechanical Lead Director Sync

Owned by Daniel Puratich
Last updated: 2024-07-11
2 min read

  • Attendance

    • @Daniel Puratich

    • @Alison Thompson

    • @Nathan Green

    • @Smile Khatri

  • Progress over last month & Goals in next month & roadblocks to goals

    • weatherproofing

      • designs exist

      • materials and manufacturing in next month

    • fixed wing airfoil

      • have some picked designs we want to try

    • fixed wing fuselage

      • want to give design experience to PMs, but leads could grind it out if necessary

      • sync with PMs to discuss this

    • Houston

      • mounts progress

    • Pegasus 2

      • moving away from ziptie n tape?

        • using zip ties and tape in some places is the optimal solution

        • what is criteria for this?

          • tiny things don’t need mounts often

          • Is it worth the time to make mounts for things?

          • Mounts are a good first task on the team, but don’t want to give this to senior members

            • most things are way more interesting than this

      • Manufacturing for spare landing gears

        • start with one full set then see if we need spares from there

    • SolidWorks Update

      • people on 2023 version will need to update to 2024 eventually, and maybe need to exactly when server is updated to 2024

      • Stuff is buggy for people right now, want to try upgrading everything n see if that fixes it all

      • need to use basis or just dm spam for serial number distribution?

      • dont give anyone the code who doesnt meet Subteam Member Definition for mechanical

      • Nathan running PDM server

        • can transfer it or keep doing it, whatever is preferred

        • links to external documentation in some confluence page so it’s easy to find

        • reduce Individual Reliance impact here

        • doin some updates now or tmrw, n have people update

  • boosting assembly engagement

    • want more members involved with assembling?

      • landing legs

      • pixhawk mount

        • need to waterjet CF to make this

      • Motor Bolts

    • electrical is doing wire lengths so it kinda makes sense in a lot of cases to let em do it

    • a few people will actually do assembly bc it must be done correctly, tradeoff

    • now is a low risk time,

    • a weekly assembly/manufacturing session is overkill bc we don’t have stuff to manufacture

      • dont force work sessions rn

    • social for mech bc in person work is so minimal this term?

  • rpc

    • RPC Policies

    • we all lost access a while ago on our fob bc stuff was stolen

    • email Teertstra if we are interested in getting access (use the csa on our printer thing as leverage)

      • Can we earn back privledge to that?

    • Prusa Printer

      • beeps loudly for thermal anomoly and is for indication print stopping

      • people interested in fixin on co-op

  • director feedback

    • more communication is good

    • policy docs cleanups

      • don’t over document / nitpick a ton

      • most people don't read a lot of these docs

      • the nitpicks aren’t a productive use of time

      • just saying no to random docu changes is valid !!

      • feels weird for advisors to be influencing the org structure heavily

        • a lot of docu is overhead for directors and some leads

        • if we dont care then we shouldn’t bother

        • something to think about here!

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