2024-11-27 Electrical Meeting

Attendance

In person

Online

Ryan Scomazzon

Meghan Dang

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
- https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1306366375606091817
- 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 https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1310452583449628692
  - Help is welcome if you wanna look into motor selection
Next Flight Test - Nov 23rd
- 2024-11-30 Pegasus 2 Landing Gear Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG
- https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1306721274973786132
- 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.
Midterm board order
- Please follow post ordering backup processhttps://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2699821117/Altium+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
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)

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: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D
Missing GPS
- RIP - Gone forever likely
- probably gonna order

Board bring up Status

Please update test plans/board documentation!

WATER CONTROLLER

Board Name	status	blockers	plan going forward
GPS Breakout	Alternative GPS selected		https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Meetings/database/2752839681?entryId=e839dcd8-defc-42f1-8280-8e2c21fbeea5
Single Servo Driver	electrical validation done. need firmware. 3x boards all ready to go right now Maybe make spares since we are using all we made?		https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Meetings/database/2752839681?entryId=726878aa-bcb8-4728-9eed-18483cfb5c94
6s Power Module	Waiting for Diodes to come in Power rails working	Still waiting for Firmware
Water controller	not started Shawn Yang should make a test plan for this to make this process faster	boards and components need to come in

Peggy 2/Comp Updates

Jerry Tian For Peggy 2
Water controller making (prob in more detail above)
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 - On midterm order - assembly likely 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?
- Looking for diagrams of where things will be mounted from mech
- CAN Integration 2025