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October 1, 2021

October 1, 2021

Oct 02, 2021

Date: Sunday September 17th, 8:30 PM ET

Attendance:

Anna (Business)

Caleb (Team)

Cindy (Firmware)

Clare (Science)

Ethan (Mechanical)

Farris (Electrical)

Grace (Science)

Orson (Software)

Topic 1: Admin Stuff

  • tables,

  • safety

  • PDR due dates/prepare PDR

Topic 2: Rover Budget

Topic 3: Sub-team Updates

  • Mechanical 

    • Tasks are distributed to everyone

      • A little bit behind

      • Austin and emily are close to picking and buying things

      • Then need to CAD/Design things

      • Ali on science

        • Need to confrim the plan

    • Ethan will pick out sensors for ali (science)

    • Cindy/Ethan/Austin/Farris/Austin/Mathieu/Medina (encoders) (this week)

    • Might be making science motor a 37D Pololu motor 

      • Let Farris and Cindy know if this change is made

  • Electrical

    • 24V Arm/48V Motor (writing this here since there was some confusion, was mentioned that it was 24V for everything)

    • Power architecture finalized - VBAT/48V drivetrain (depending on motors selected), 24V arm & comms, 17V Jetson, 5V other custom boards

    • Delegated remaining boards - PDB, BMS, multiphase buck, gimbal, science

    • GANTT chart filled out for power architecture design and testing 

    • Need someone to take over RLS encoder firmware from Aidan

  • Firmware

    • Planned out tasks which need to get done

      • need to distribute everything out

      • Clarify with Ali about camera requirements for science mechanism (this one is most important)

        • Ethan asks Ali (confirm with science/software leads)

    • PCB electrical design tasks blocked

    • Need a gimbal board 

      • Can use an ODrive (find someone to do this, probably Cindy)

    • RLS encoder 

      • Move task from aidan to someone else (probably Cindy)

    • End of november, Gimbal firmware done

    • End of term  (before exams) general deadline for firmware to be done

  • Science

    • New members (from science faculty)

      • Onboarding them 

    • Use SciSoc money instead of mechanical money (Anna) (Business)

    • Science plan

      • Check with Ethan/Ali

    • Excel rock database (on confluence)

    • Profs from earths sciences dept / geologists

  • Business

    • Looking into sponsors, cash donations

      • Ask previous employers/random connections, send names

    • Shirts

    • New system for buying/spending

      • Money limit, check with leads before buying

      • Spreadsheet tracking

    • Planning the Utah trip

      • Need to make sure we have enough money to go

        • Check with Melvin on it

  • Software

    • Helping new members with training

    • Outlined tasks for the sw team

    • lightnings talks about CMake and Makefiles

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