2025-03-09 Electrical : Directors Sync
Attendance
@Georgia Westerlund
@Daniel Puratich
@Nathan Green
@Ryan Scomazzon
@Meghan Dang
Leadership Transition
Ryan stepping down end of this term
Andrew is interested in being a lead → he wants to mentor people
He will be gone for a year on exchange
Does three leads at once work?
While he’s offsite he can handle admin stuff, bookshelf, new bootcamp
Still wants to continue PM work while offsite
Kenny would be a good fit
On stream with Ryan
Concern about time commitment
He is interested!
Have Kenny and Andrew become leads over the summer
This gives Andrew one term onsite as a lead
Ishmann isn’t on stream with Ryan
Ryan will chat to him about it
Post comp is ideal time for lead turnover
keeps stuff more cohesive, other subteams will follow suit
have them start after comp
Let’s vote them in at next leads meeting!
PnP Machine Status
Someone on EE is interested in working on this soon
We can keep it as long as it is being used
If it isn’t we can return it to the SDC?
Progress towards W25 Goals
Peggy 2
Water controller → rev 2 prob doesn't need to change for payload changes
Water controller would be nice to get going
Eclipse
Eclipse project manager might be nice
PM can do syncs with people working on eclipse
End of Feb for mech fully complete
Change how PMs work:
Eclipse PM (bring up, validation, and harnessing) → able to assign boards to people
Peggy 2 PM → assign tasks like water controller, LED board
Not giving people the answers → giving them questions to figure out
Want to make it seem like people came to an idea themselves
If still waiting on mech, get more people involved with the ideation process
Timelines are important to ensure that things happen
Peggy 2
Working with mech to get payload stuff done
Wiring during workessions
Rev 2 water controller is not happening
Rev 1 is on the drone and working now
LED boards still WIP
EFS wants spares
Ordering more with PnP?
Next work session → look into debugging existing boards
Confident in Rev 4 design
Eclipse
Jerry is not Eclipse PM
Mech airframe timeline unknown → not fully finished but harnessing can start
6s servo needs validating → pushed aside for other comp stuff (more critical)
Maybe we just spend money on assembled boards
Future Goals
Working on multiple new projects
PDB
BMS
New ZP rev → arch meeting happening soon
@Ryan Scomazzon Have people interested in driving schedule this meeting
12s esc being assembled by Ethan before he graduates
Tracking antenna + elrs gemini
Nolan probably can’t do this (?)
Osman is still interested → he has limited experience
Progress has been limited this term but interest is there
Blockers
Number of people involved onsite
Lots of new bootcampers are currently being onboarded
Hopefully some of them can start coming to worksessions
Maybe we start pushing socials more?
Only a couple people seem interested
Might do a joint mech + EE social?
Sounds very fun
Team worksession
Maybe this isn’t the play?
Mech + EE can work on their own
Worksession designed for auto members for knowledge transfer from Maxwell