November 9th, 2022

General Announcements

@Keyon Jerome

  • Competition News

  • Internal

    • Ex: Next General Meeting, Overall Progress, etc.


Mechanical

@Austin Tailon Huang @Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • No mechanical leads present

ACTION ITEMS

  • Comms PDR

 


Electrical

@Ari Wasch @Logan Hartford

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on? (Link CONFLUENCE task pages)

    • How’re these tasks going?

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Is the completed task a prerequisite to anything?

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

    • (One bullet per update)

    • Slow week due to the bay showcase; had to reschedule

    • Got a lot of people coming into the bay this upcoming weekend for testing!

    • Purchased backups for buck converters

    • Buying backups for BMS – next couple days

    • Had meeting with BYU for comms!

    • New members are working on new side project

      • Making a new power supply current output display

    •  

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • How’s the training going?

      • What’re they working on?

      • How’re they feeling?

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Major focus of the team in the next week

 

  • Misc.

    • Anything you’d like to bring up


Software

@Orson Marmon @Keyon Jerome

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on? (Link CONFLUENCE task pages)

    • How’re these tasks going?

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Is the completed task a prerequisite to anything?

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

    • (One bullet per update)

    •  

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • How’s the training going?

      • What’re they working on?

      • How’re they feeling?

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Major focus of the team in the next week

 

  • Misc.

    • Anything you’d like to bring up


Firmware

@Nicolas Palmar

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on? (Link CONFLUENCE task pages)

    • How’re these tasks going?

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Is the completed task a prerequisite to anything?

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

    • (One bullet per update)

    • Testing motor controllers & odrive after Jahnavi/Cindy came in to help get them setup

    • Still working on other control modes; only trajectory (position) control is working

      • All via command line-- not working

      • Velocity control not working

      • Setup seems to be correct

      • Try sensorless mode?

      • Tried reaching out to them, they’re slowly getting back to Nico on the O-drive page

    • Few people working on training, Nico handling it

    • Nico will be taking on software in the meantime, as debugging odrives slows down

    • Austin wanted to get ODrives working with Maxon arm controllers(?)

    • Discussion starting on switching motor controllers

    • Ari’s position: switch to brushed motors

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • How’s the training going?

      • What’re they working on?

      • How’re they feeling?

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Major focus of the team in the next week

      • Continue exploring O-Drives

      • Try maxon motors on arms with o-drives

      •  

 

  • Misc.

    • Anything you’d like to bring up


Science

@Clare Burnley

UPDATES

  • Science members coming off midterms, starting to get to

  • Working on running tests w/ sensors and dry lab chemicals

  • Working on interpreting results & backing it up with data for the science plan

  • Have living document for science plan

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Conduct lab testing


Business

@Anna Fyfe

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on?

      • Submitting expense claim forms (no confluence page)

      • Eng Soc (no confluence page)

    • How’re these tasks going?

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Is the completed task a prerequisite to anything?

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • How’s the training going?

      • What’re they working on?

      • How’re they feeling?

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Finishing all expense claim forms

    • Meeting with member about creating the team’s budget

 

  • Misc.

    • Anything you’d like to bring up


Moving Forward/Rescope

Electrical:

  • Stop designing complicated boards, spec out and buy OTS components

  • Design projects will be focused on simpler boards that we’re confident we can get to work

  • Focus on supporting other subteams

  • Logan will still be around for W2023 (likely supporting remotely); most electrical members will be either on co-op or first-years

Firmware:

  • Pick at previous leads and recruit experienced new members

  • Biggest problem arises from not being able to run the motors from the ODrives

  • Considering switching to straight Arduino (no RTOS)

  • Nico would prefer not to be firmware lead/working on firmware

  • Create a FW pm channel for recruitment and rescope

Science:

  • Not very affected

  • Team structure for science will stay the same