11/02/2022

Weekly Updates

Member

Main Project

Update

Action Items

Member

Main Project

Update

Action Items

@Ari Wasch

BMS

  • Went to NEU EE Mars Rover meeting

 

David Choi

RS422

Any update on RS422 testing? Any update on buck back-up?

  • Found a buck converter

  • Lock in a buck converter replacment

  • Get started on the current sense board

@Farris Matar

PDB/BMS

  • RS422 to USB converter purchased for RS422 breakout testing with David

  • Purchased parts for assembling the SPI peripheral boards

  • Possibly able to help with SPI peripheral board assembly & RS422 testing this weekend

@Joshua Harper

BMS

  • Finished BMS test plan

  • Intersted in working on comms

@Logan Hartford

Multiphase Buck Converter

  • Met with @Olivia Markham (Deactivated) , @Rayyan Mahmood , @Wolfgang Windholtz (Deactivated) to work on the DD current sense board

  • Did not get much else done due to halloween

  • Look into LED matrix (will do this when we have the assembly weekend)

  • Pick up PDB and BMS boards

  • Sort out BMS and PDB parts

  • Need PDB parts

  • Assemble another buck

  • Assembly weekend Nov 5th

  • Meet with David and Muhammad to lock in back up boards

  • Set up meetings with other robotics teams to discuss comms

  • Meet with BU robotics team on Nov 5th to discuss comms and science

  • Olivia, David, Wolfy, Billy, Rishith, Farris

  • Reach out to Muhammad and make sure he knows whats up

Muhammad Tanveer

Comms

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

  • Continued finding a BMS and

  • met with Yuchen to get started on readings for the Comms project.

  • Finalize BMS selection and

  • read up on all the Comms pages and do further research on the topics

@Olivia Markham (Deactivated)

BMS / DD Current Sense

  • Did research for DD Current Sense project

  • Sent a couple of possible ICs to Wolfgang

  • Finalize choice of IC

  • Determine whether to use STM32 or Arduino

  • Research more and complete the initial steps on the research page

@Rayyan Mahmood

PDB / DD Current Sense

  • Taking a step back from the team to focus on school

 

@Rishith Bomman

PDB

Any update on the PDB test plan?

  • Farris complete the test plan

  • Need PDB parts for this weekend

@Wolfgang Windholtz (Deactivated)

Science & Support

  • Met about the current sens board

  • Assembly weekend

@Yuchen Lin

Comms

Any update on comms?

  • Reading documentation

  • Trying to figure out what our needs are in terms fo firmware

 

  • listing problems

  • getting ready for the meeting

  • getting other people moving on comms

Announcements:

  • Assembly weekend coming up soon (November 5th) – Will finalize the next meeting

    • If you want to learn how to bring up and assembly PCBs, this is a good opportunity

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

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

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

Oct 31, 2022

  • Boards and parts ordered

HIGH

Comms

@Yuchen Lin / @Logan Hartford

Oct 31, 2022

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

HIGH

Science

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Apr 30, 2023

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

LOW