Date: Sunday September 17th, 8:30 - 9:30pm EST |
Attendance: Anna (Business) Caleb (Team) Cindy (Firmware)
Clare (Science) Ethan (Mechanical) Farris (Electrical) Grace (Science)
Orson (Software) |
Topic 1: Caleb’s transition - Still awaiting logins/admin access for things
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Topic 2: New Rules are out! - Everyone please read through it, and encourage your sub-team members to read it as well
- https://urc.marssociety.org/home/requirements-guidelines
- Drone? (probably not, it's optional and no time)
- Pointing out differences and anything new
- PDR guidelines not updated for 2022
- SAR guidelines not updated for 2022
- Science Plan not updated for 2022
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Topic 3: Bay Stuff (COVID Safety Guidelines, bay access, software tables) - Max will be the safety captain
- Waiting on Graeme for safety plan guidance
- If you want bay access you need to go in person to the machine shop and ask to sign out a key fob
- Updated safety information: https://uwaterloo.ca/safety-office/
- Looking to get a new table for software and firmware to work on
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Topic 4: Lance has left the team |
Topic 5: Sub-team Updates - Admin
- Where do our shipments go?
- Safety plan
- New table for software
- Sent email to victoria for that
- Get new shelving units, organizational things
- Monies
- Ask Farris about how much money it will cost
- Ask Melvin about Antennas
- Order USB 3.0 cable for gimbal
- Mechanical
- Jasmine - Antenna
- Ali - Science by himself (Maybe get more people on that)
- Ethan - getting rid of design tasks to focus on lead stuff
- End effector, issue with it being too loose
- Medina 5/6
- Austin 1/2
- Mathieu 3/4
- Need overall $18,000 distribution
- So mech knows how much money they can spend with the rover
- Drivetrain, needs differential bar corrected
- Emily might not want gears
- Drivetrain is pretty strong
- Two new members
- Joe - looking into battery selection
- Biggest problem so far, nothing is concrete yet
- Motor selection
- Anna buying a motor
- Olabisi making motor mount
- Electrical
- figured out rough design of power architecture (next week/two working on PDB)
- motor shortage with mechanical
- 48V with drivetrain
- 24V with arm
- Science board (Chelsea)
- PDB (Farris and Cindy)
- BMS (Ari)
- Gimbal/Arm
- unknown if a board is needed (probably just O-Drives)
- Taylor's on gimbal
- New members, no beginner friendly board
- Have an experienced members guide them through something difficult
- Can't really shadow PDB board design
- Wiring up the claw
- Mathieu I think wired the arm
- Farris talk to Ethan and Mathieu about wiring the claw
- Then, check with Orson and Cindy to see if testing on old drivetrain is okay
- (this is so FW/SW can get started on testing)
- ODrive firmware needs to be written (Aidan Gratton)
- Firmware
- Getting new members started on training
- Continued development on 2021 improvements
- Will start planning 2022 initial codebase bring-up
- Software
- Helping newer members with software training
- Try to get drivetrain up and running (get things to Melvin)
- Get a table! (Caleb)
- Science
- Outreach, getting new members (from science faculty, funding from sci-soc)
- Working on mechanical on things
- Grace researching Utah soil, getting a sample maybe (soil analysis)
- Get relationship with profs (Clare)
- Business
- Going through team's finances confirming all the orders that have been placed/how much has been taken out of the team/week account.
- Weef is tricky, they know how much we have left
- Orders that aren't on the tracking list, but need to be tracked down
- Asking teams about orders that have been placed
- Can't make budget until we know how much we have
- $10,000 in team account
- Looking forwards, no deadlines for WEEF and EngSoc so far
- Get more external sponsors (more $)
- Sponsorship package updates
- Reimbursements
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Next leads meeting: - Updates
- Discuss intention/feasibility of whether we can compete
- Talk about budget
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Comments from the meeting: - Range testing of rover comms
- Need wiring diagrams (how does everything connect up?)
- Need to test gimbal functionality
- Electrical (moving the motor)
- Software/Firmware (controlling the BLDC and the servo)
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