5/11/2022

Weekly Updates

Member

Main Project

Update

Action Items

Member

Main Project

Update

Action Items

@Ari Wasch

BMS

  • Talked to Waterloop about their BMS

  • Met with Logan to discuss specs and suppliers for a new battery

  • Met with Ivan to start science board assembly

  • Meeting tomorrow night to assemble Science Board

  • Meeting this weekend with Logan to discuss the new battery

  • Meet with firmware to see how we can support them

@Chealsie Bains (Deactivated)

BLDC

Solar

Any update on BLDC collaboration?

 

Ethan Romero

TBD**

 

 

@Farris Matar

PDB/BMS

Any update on PDB/BMS performance testing?

 

@Ivan Lim

Science

Any update on Science assembly and testing?

 

@Jason Gao

RS422

BLDC motor controller

BLDC Layout 50% complete

SPI LVDS Peripheral layout review

BLDC Layout

RS422 testing once crimps arrive

@Joshua Harper

Solar

 

 

@Logan Hartford

Multiphase buck converter

  • Met with Ari this weekend to discuss specs and suppliers for a new battery.

  • Went home for the weekend so did not get much done on the buck converter.

  • Will need some volunteers to assemble the SPI LVDS host boards as @Taylor Mcnabb is not in waterloo this term

  • Go to the bay and gather all the stuff for the SPI host board assembly

  • Review the SPI LVDS Peripheral layout.

  • Need to spec out the solar project with @Ari Wasch and get people rolling on that.

  • Update battery power budget for the current rover

  • Finish reading a couple more documents on buck before starting layout.

  • Start the new layout hopefully

  • Create on-boarding for GitHub

Paul Kokhanov

TBD**

 

 

@Taylor Mcnabb

SPI LVDS

Any update on SPI LVDS host assembly?

Any update on SPI LVDS peripheral layout?

 

@Wolfgang Windholtz (Deactivated)

Science

Any update on Science assembly and testing?

 

Announcements:

BMS and PDB are currently on hold until we decide on a new battery

What we can currently work on?
BLDC

Custom Arm controller PCB?

PCB assembly and testing

Supporting firmware with ODrives and wiring the robot

PCB suggestions?

What happened to gimbal?

Solar may be related to BMS

New Members:

  • Bassel (Working on training) - Possibly BMS

Summer Projects

  • PDB - Layout, Splitting boards, and connecting via edge connectors - 1

  • Status LCD - 1

  • Solar panel charger - EE wide project - All - Josh

  • Firmware EE Integration