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2025-03-09 Electrical : Directors Sync

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

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