2023-03-06 Meeting Notes

Cornflakes

Alison Thompson

Conall Kingshott

Competition Frame updates

Megan Spee

Conall Kingshott

Cabin - skin, main cylinder build Conall Kingshott

Landing gear - Alison Thompson

Nose/tail - Andrew Wright

• to glue second nose cone? (foam)

Avionics bay - ??

Bay door - Vishal Jayakumar

• it’s printed in lightweight PLA, just hasnt been fixed to door. Hrishik Patel was doing cabin assem, can possibly help with attaching door

CV camera mount - Arjun Mandair

** Reminders for Comp Frame for General Visibility **

We will need to implement:

• optical flow sensor on bottom

• 360-degree-visibility LED lights. must be done in junction with EE

• forward and downward camera - is this accounted for?

• airspeed sensors need to go on icarus

• killswitch

Flight tests and comp simulations

Megan Spee

Flight test this saturday March 11

via flight test channel - “the plan is to test that cornflakes can fly reliably in a fixed wing configuration, as well as gather some preliminary battery life data.”

another flight test March 18

Tracking antenna

Megan Spee Andy Zhang Jason Li

How’s this going Mech - Tracking Antenna

(cad sprint, sourcing components. Any pitfalls or open questions)

Bounties!

Megan Spee

Conall Kingshott

• No new bounties at the moment

• Frame/Fuselage mounting brackets underway Andrew Wright

Outstanding:

• cornflakes cabin?

• Team sign

• Wing ribs for cornflakes

back to weekly meetings!

Megan Spee

happy midterm week over for most of you!

ICARUS synchups - happening on tuesdays weekly, 9pm

General meetings - thursdays @ 8pm

you all know this. just a reminder, cause we’ve been off for a while