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