11/16/2022

 

Weekly Updates

Member

Main Project

Update

Action Items

Member

Main Project

Update

Action Items

@Ari Wasch

BMS

  • Firmware rescope

  • Firmware rescope

David Choi

RS422 / Comms

Any update on the DD Current Sense part selection?

  • Has to carry a lab so he cant make the meeting

  • Assembled a PDB during work weekend

  • Looked into 7 segment stuff for the current sense board

 

@Farris Matar

PDB/BMS

  • work weekend

  • Farris tested Rs422 boards

 

@Joshua Harper

BMS

Going to focus on ebox

  • Order BMS/RS422 parts from digikey

@Logan Hartford

Multiphase Buck Converter

  • Work weekend

  • Generated BOM and digikey cart for more RS422 boards

  • Trying to set up a meeting with the Dayton rover team

  • Assemble another buck

  • Set up a meeting with dayton oe another team in the future to discuss comms progress

  • Test PDB

  • Assemble another BMS

  • Assemble and test more RS422’s

  • Update project tickets and meeting template

  • Meet with Olivia and David

Muhammad Tanveer

Comms

Any update on comms? Any update on the BMS back up?

  • Looked through comms stuff

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  • Buy a BMS

@Olivia Markham (Deactivated)

BMS / DD Current Sense

Any update on the DD Current Sense part selection?

  • researched more

    • chose IC

    • figured out how it will sense the current and output its readings

    • good to use either stm32 or arduino(and library needed)

  • talk to Yuchen and David on whether they have any preference for stm32 or arduino

  • discuss next steps with Logan and David

@Rishith Bomman

PDB

Any updates?

  • Work weekend

  • work weekend

@Wolfgang Windholtz (Deactivated)

Science / Support

  • Purchase thermal camera a DMM

  • work weekend

@Yuchen Lin

Comms

Any update on comms?

  • the bms doesn’t work

  • get the router properly setup and able to be tested

  • have question to ask Dayton Mars Rover team

  • ask boston university for some idea on testing

  • test the comms

Announcements:

  • Potentially going to be doing work sessions every Saturday depending on interest level

    • No minimum commitment

Active Projects:

Project

Currently Assigned To

Ticket

Due Date

Comments

Priority Level

Project

Currently Assigned To

Ticket

Due Date

Comments

Priority Level

PDB

@Rishith Bomman /

@Farris Matar / Rayaan

PDB Rev4 - Design and Assemble the PDB

Oct 31, 2022

  • Boards ordered, tracking info with @Joshua Harper (order placed with BMS). Waiting on arrival to start assembly & test

HIGH

Multiphase Buck

@Paul Kokhanov / @Logan Hartford

Multiphase Buck Converter Rev 2 - Design and Assemble the Buck Converter

Oct 31, 2022

  • Tested over reading week, something is wrong, haven’t determined the root cause of the issue

  • Looking into off the shelf back ups to prevent delays in testing subsystems

HIGH

BMS

@Joshua Harper / @Ari Wasch / Olivia

BMS - Design and Assemble the BMS

Oct 31, 2022

  • Boards and parts ordered

HIGH

Comms

@Yuchen Lin / @Logan Hartford

Comms

Oct 31, 2022

  • Reasearch phase is nearly complete, working on testing system and reaching out to other teams for help

HIGH

Science

 

Science - Assemble & Test

Nov 26, 2022

  • Need one or two people to own the assembly and testing of the science boards and work with @Ivan Lim and @Wolfgang Windholtz (Deactivated) to ensure the board is ready for competition.

  • Found two assembled boards but none of the parts if @Ivan Lim / @Wolfgang Windholtz (Deactivated) have any ideas please let me know. Otherwise we’ll just order more parts.

  • @Ivan Lim / @Wolfgang Windholtz (Deactivated) Both of the assembled boards are missing a lot of parts, do the boards have a bunch of population options?

MEDIUM

SPI LVDS

 

SPI LVDS - Assemble and Test

Nov 26, 2022

  • Need one or two people to own the assembly and testing of the SPI LVDS boards.

  • Did not find any boards or parts for the peripheral boards

    • If anyone has any idea where these might be please let me know asap otherwise we will order new boards and parts.

  • Found only blank boards and assembled boards for the host boards

    • If anyone has any idea where the parts are please let me know asap or we will order new parts.

MEDIUM

RS422

 

RS422 - Assemble and Test

Nov 26, 2022

  • Need one or two people to own the assembly and testing of the RS422 boards.

  • Found parts, boards and stencil, can start assembling immediately

  • Don’t know how many boards we have parts for but we can assembly what we can now and order more after.

MEDIUM

LED Matrix

 

LED Matrix 2022/23

Feb 28, 2023

  • Need to verify the current state of the old LED matrix before this project can be greenlighted/scopped out

MEDIUM

Digital Display Current Sense Board

@Olivia Markham (Deactivated) / @Rayyan Mahmood

Current Sense Display

Apr 30, 2023

  • Want to design a board which will be able to display the current output of the fixed output power supply

LOW