October 1, 2021

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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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