Attendance

General Updates

• Meghan running this meeting 🔥🔥

• LAST MEETING OF THE TERM

  • WE ACTUALLY KILLED IT THIS TERM NICE JOB EVERYONE

  • @Ryan Scomazzon To talk a bit looking back on how epic we did

• Last flight test

  • 2024-11-23 Pegasus Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG

  • Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

  • Tracking antenna had data sending issue - pushed to next flight test

  • Pegasus 2 new landing gear testing moved to next test

  • Autonomy Cluster Estimation and Image collection with manually set camera settings

  • Houston had motor issues and can now be flown until we get new motors - we are looking at better motors Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

    • Help is welcome if you wanna look into motor selection

• Next Flight Test - Nov30th

  • 2024-11-30 Pegasus 2 Landing Gear Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG

  • Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

  • Testing new angled landing gear - for landing on the bucket

  • Houston tests postponed until we get new motors (tracking antenna)

  • Pilot training moved to this test

• Final Flight Test of the term - Dec 14th

  • Testing both solutions for task 2 - pump (water controller) and scoop (single servo driver

  • water controller is pending on EE - we need this assembled and validated by then!

  • PULL UP!!

• Winter 2025 EE Co-op

  • An EE coop would be really epic but we need a mentor to have one!

  • If you wanna be a coop mentor, please reach out to EE leads. It would be really really epic and cool and awesome sauce.

  • EE co-ops have been actually popping off (nice job guys)

  • DEADLINE IS TOMORROW so please reach out now if interested!!!!!!!

    • We would still have to make the job description and get it reviewed so must let us know TN

• PMs next term

  • We are looking for PMs for next term

  • Going to release a form after finals, please keep an eye out if interested

  • No questions on the form, just submit if interested

  • We will talk individually to everyone who fills it out to see PM role would work and go over expectations.

  • Can be on OR off site.

  • Please fill out even if already PM so we can see if you wanna be PM next term

• Midterm board order

  • Please follow post ordering backup processAltium Folder Structure & EE Project Backups | Post Ordering

  • Yet to bet ordered

    • Sensor cluster - prob gonna be on its own

    • Tracking Antenna Controller rev 2, GPS (for GPS breakout) - combined together

    • Led Rev 4 - maybe combined with above maybe not?

• EE Work session

  • No more work sessions this term

  • Today’s

    • successful bringup of water controller!

      • 3 Boards Assembled

    • validated + powered up, should be good to test w/ mech system pre-comp sync

    • Pre-charge system working

  • Friday’s

    • potentially bringup more boards

    • check availability of members (finals)

    • if no one avail, cancel this sesh

    • likely no sunday sesh either unless people would be interested in more board bringup

      • Likely not

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• AEAC Town Hall #1 happened

  • This is where they answer questions everyone had about competition

  • 2024-11-22 AEAC Townhall #1 - Meetings - WARG

• PCBX Sponsorship @Ryan Scomazzon

  • Good news and bad news

  • Good news: Turns out they didn't ghost us, it just got sent to junk

  • Bad news: They are ops of deception and basically used this as a marketing campaign. Their offer for free services was only for the first order and everyone gets this as a new account promotion. They conveniently didn't mention this in their first email.

  • They mentioned something about offering a discount to us for long term cooperation? I sent an email to push for what we can get out of them but I think this is probably a dud

  • Back to looking for a JLC sponsorship, I can use some help with that.

• Comp/Eclipse sync

  • No eclipse sync

  • Comp sync tmrw night (Thursday) @ 8pm in E5-2103

    • LAST COMP SYNC OF THE TERM

• Beginning of term order

  • Who wants to be on it?

  • Reasonable timeline?

• TOASTER OVEN ACQUIRED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • Plz dont store things on top of it or touch the top - it gets hot

  • Dont put food in there because we will be using leaded solder in there which will make your food not something you wanna eat (unless you want cancer)

  • Open

    

Reminders

• Please clean up after yourself

• Get the electronsite role if on site - reach out to @Ryan Scomazzon if you have issues

• Check out Conops for AEAC! Get involved in comp syncs for discussion https://www.aerialevolution.ca/annual-student-competition/

• If you are on a project and can use some help, reach out

• Don’t forget to fill out the team roster: Microsoft Forms

• Missing GPS

  • RIP - Gone forever likely

  • probably gonna order

    Open

    

Board bring up Status

Please update test plans/board documentation!

WATER CONTROLLER

Peggy 2/Comp Updates

• @Jerry Tian For Peggy 2

• Water controller making (prob in more detail above)

  • Will install Dec 13 afternoon lol (after I finish finals)

• Comp relevant PCBAs

  • Water controller

  • Water controller Rev 2

  • LED REV 4

  • Tracking antenna controller rev2

  • Unified VTX - descoped from this comp cycle

  • Single servo driver

  • Pi interface rev c

• Big push now is for Dec 14 flight test

Eclipse Updates - Fixed Wing 2025 - SysInt - WARG (atlassian.net)

• The below boards should be included

  • 6S servo module rev 2 - assembly next term

  • Single Servo Driver - waiting on EFS

  • 6S power module - in validation @Andrew Chai for details

    • High current test

    • POR for first flight of eclipse next term.

  • 24-5V buck - redundant power supply

  • @Jerry Tian Interested in harness diagrams?

    • yes all of them

  • Looking for diagrams of where things will be mounted from mech

  • CAN Integration 2025

General Tasks

In order of priority. These are the active design projects.

• RPi Interface Rev C - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • @Daniel Puratich Project Manager, Principle Hardware Engineer

  • @Kenny Na Layout Design

  • New modem, different SIM TVS, back to making routing progress

  • Modem wasnt on our bands - better for europe and asia

  • Chillin for beginning of term order

  • Reviews are appreciated now

• 12S ESC - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • @Ethan Abraham& @Andrew Chai

  • Pending layout review - basically done

  • Room for optimization

• ELRS Redundant Diversity RX - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • @Nolan Haines Individual Contributor

  • Target for beginning of term order

• 12S Pre-Charge Controller Module

  • @Robert Tang , @Kevin Li

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• 3S ESC

  • @Kenny Na, PM @Daniel Puratich

  • Stalled for 12-5V Buck + ELRS RX bringup

  • Stalled for USB-C Sink bringup

  • Stalled for layout on RPi Interface Rev. C

  • houston ESCs? - 3s or 6s batts?

  • Wait for new motor selection?

• Fixed wing connector research (VBat, CAN, 5V)

  • @Ryan Scomazzon

  • Forgot to check connector at work

  • Still open for anyone who wants to help, dm me

  • Suggestion from @Kenny Na - look into ethernet? - Power rating?

    • This came up before but was ditched. Look into why? There may be a conf doc from sept 2023

• ELRS Gemini Testing/Rev 2

  • @Ahmed Osman

  • is this still going ?

12V Input to 65W USB-PD Source - Electrical - WARG

• @Ian Van Den Steen

12V to 24V Boost Groundside Converter - Electrical - WARG

• @Tim Gu

• Did some research on designing/working with boost convertors

• Getting started on calculations

  • Input current may be around 90-100A (very rough estimate)

  • How much current is too much (to the point where we can’t make this ourselves)?

• Looking into COTS options for buying one

  • There are some 12-24V 50A DC/DC convertors that seem promising at first glance, will dig deeper and document updates

• some ideas:

  • If we don’t charge 4 batteries at once the input current will probably be a lot lower

  • maybe use multiple boost convertors (like a multiphase buck)?

Water System Controller rev 2 - Electrical - WARG

• Working on schem still

• After this weekend will be on hold till after finals

• Target for start of term board order

Action Items

• Make source of truth for board priority and add more single servos to it

• Check up on elrs status

GOOD LUCK ON EXAMS 🙏🙏🙏