2024-07-10 Mechanical Lead Director Sync

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

    • if we say Member Definition nobody will read it

    • how to get roster data: Team Roster Information | Link

    • only give to people who have finished roster, want to get more people to do the roster

  • 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!