11/09/2022

 

Weekly Updates

Member

Main Project

Update

Action Items

Member

Main Project

Update

Action Items

@Ari Wasch

BMS

  • Working on firmware scope reduction

  • Met with NEU Robotics team

  • Working on firmware scope reduction

David Choi

RS422

Any update on RS422 testing? Any update on buck back-up? Any update on the DD Current Sense part selection?

  • Met with Logan and got up to speed on dd current sense

  • Researched RS422 stuff

    • Purhcases back up buck converters

  • Assembly weekend

  • RS422 testing

  • DD current sense part selection

@Farris Matar

PDB/BMS

  • Nothing done this week

  • Assembly weekend Nov 12th (RS422 testing, possibly support other assembly)

  • Get SPI Peripheral boards ordered (if not found in the bay)

@Joshua Harper

BMS / Comms

Any update on getting started with comms?

 

@Logan Hartford

Multiphase Buck Converter

  • Met with BU rover teams to discuss comms and science

  • Met with David and Muhammad to go over their buck and BMS selections respectively

  • Met with David to briefly discuss the the current sense project

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

  • Sort out BMS and PDB parts

  • Need PDB parts

  • Assemble another buck

  • Assembly weekend Nov 12th

  • Work weekend: Olivia, David, Wolfy, Billy, Rishith, Farris

Muhammad Tanveer

Comms

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

  • Worked on finding a BMS back-up

  • Comms: working on reading documentaion

  • Finish reading through comms

  • buy a BMS

@Olivia Markham (Deactivated)

BMS / DD Current Sense

Any update on the DD Current Sense part selection?

  • Got COVID

  • Won’t be able to come to assembly weekend

  • Finish part selection for DD current sense project

@Rishith Bomman

PDB

Any update on the PDB test plan?

  • Not to much

 

  • Assembly weekend

@Wolfgang Windholtz (Deactivated)

Science / Support

not much

 

@Yuchen Lin

Comms

Any update on comms?

  • obtained a handful of useful information from boston university

  • talked to Muhammad about the system

  • talked to Keyon and decided what will be the next few steps to do

  • let Austin know the basic plan of the comms

  • link for the new router is sent

  • chilled and wait until the new router arrived

  • looking forward the assembly on Saturday

  • Assemble the BMS

Announcements:

  • Assembly weekend coming up soon (November 12th - 10am) – 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