General Team Status/Schedule:

• Meeting times:

  • EE Meeting: Thursdays 9 PM EST E5 1006

  • Leads Meeting: Wednesday 9 PM EST E5 1006

  • Team Competition Aircraft Sync: Tuesday 9 PM

• Attendance:

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• Altium 365

• EE Asana

• 2023 System Architecture

Updates this week!

Admin:

• Aircraft sync happens every Tuesday at 9pm.

  • EE members are encouraged to drop in and listen.

• Fall open house this weekend.

• Houston flight test on Sunday

Active PCB Projects

High Current Power Module (Taim, Steven)

• @Taim Al-Dabbagh @Steven Wang

• Layout is done, waiting for EE leads to review (leave comments).

  • Mike left comments

  • Daniel

  • Ethan (time permitting)

• Fact check XT90 current limit: supports up 90A continuous and 120A bursts. We’ve tested higher on ICARUS.

• Will proceed to layout after.

12S ESC (Ethan, Chris)

• @Ethan Abraham @Christopher Chung

• After finals, too busy at the moment.

• Decent progress achieved.

6S ESC (Rayyan, Mostafa)

• @Rayyan Mahmood @Mostafa Hussein

• Mostafa: No updates this week

LED Controller (Neel, Parker)

• @Neel Patel @Parker Lawrence-Valeriani

• Neel will come into bay on the weekend, concerns about brightness for LEDs. Top draw of red tool box

• Circuit design has been started, aiming to be done by Wednesday.

ELRS Gemini (Michael, Farris)

• @Michael Botros @Farris Matar

• No updates from EE, seems to be working.

Drone Battery PCB (Farris)

• @Farris Matar

• Confirmed dropped, not feasible?

PDB (Tom)

• @Tom Chiu

  • Caught up with course end-of-term projects and school, have not made much progress since last meeting.

  • Sorry @Daniel Puratich , very likely the case that I will not be meeting the end-of-term deadline to guarantee the testing of the PDB. When would you be free to discuss next steps, because I would have a lot more time during my co-op to grind away at it unlike my last co-op where I had a lot of work and reading to do outside of work.

  • I will still be working on it through exams and winter break.

  • Would be nice to have but not required for this competition season.

Tracking Antenna (Nolan, Hardy, Michael)

• @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Michael Botros

• Schematic basically finished, replaced connector schematic and cleaned up schematic a bit

• Schematic review soon

12S Servo Module (Jerry)

• @Jerry Tian

Added ground plane, via stitching and signed my name . Layout is under review (final one hopefully)

• Farris and Daniel will review.

• Plan to order with tracking antenna

ZP3 Rework (Anthony, Ryan)

• @Anthony Zhelnakov @Ryan Scomazzon

• @Daniel Puratich stated all of the project requirements. We’ve listed them here: ZP3 Flight Interface Board - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

• Asked EFS for any sensors/peripherals they want added to the new flight interface board. Waiting on reply. Plz document.

Capacitor Analysis for Drone (Anthony)

• @Anthony Zhelnakov

• Meet today with @Daniel Puratich to go over requirements to kick off.