November 16th, 2022

UPDATES

• Weekly drivetrain meeting scheduled at Sundays at 11am (bay or hybrid)

• Redesign of ebox, gimbal and comms stand finalized

• URDF Project launched

ACTION ITEMS

• Create updated URDF for arm controls

• Continue with science assembly

• Clean up mechanical side of bay

• Find a new lead

• Drivetrain meeting - cheng / nico / orson involvement??

UPDATES

• Assembled two PDBs, BMS, RS422 boards

• PDB not tested, BMS shorted, thermal camera being purchased

• BMS/BUCK OTS selected/purchased

• New edge routers work for comms

ACTION ITEMS

• Hosting another work session to test the PDB and fix the BMS

• Wiring event

UPDATES

• Progress Updates

  • Organized subgroups for a bunch of SW projects:

    • Arm → Meshva, Austin and I are getting going with the arm controller! View developments in #proj-arm and #cartesian-controller

    • Navigation → Starting to organize a meeting between myself, Nico, and Cheng for a task board/roadmap for navigation

  • Bought the items for the software firmware rearchitecture:

    • 5x USBs to be flashed with Ubuntu 20.04, sent to me

    • Conference equipment sent to Austin, will arrive Sunday

  • Getting going with comms with Billy! We selected a router and it's arrived. He's got it going with RouterOS as well and hooked up to a 900 MHz antenna. Progress progress progress!!!!

ACTION ITEMS

• What’s next?

  • Create task boards for arm and navigation
    
    

• Set up conference equipment
  
  

• Look into bay PCs

UPDATES

• Significant discussion have occured in firmware land:

  • Need to redefine our system architecture to meet our current skill level

  • Testing most basic odrive config → litmus test for if we need to rearch our firmware

• New team of folks ready to go (Josh + friends)

ACTION ITEMS

• What’s next?

  • Major focus of the team in the next week

    • Continue exploring O-Drives

    • reflash new firmware on odrives

    • test basic config

    • try to decide odrive architecture moving forward

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

UPDATES

• Training two new members with the reimbursement process

• New members going to be looking at written reimbursement instructions

• Looking at the website/wix right now, sometimes its hard to pin new members down

ACTION ITEMS

• Keep training new members

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