\uD83D\uDDD3 Date
\uD83E\uDD45 Goals
Complete High-Level Timeline
Have a discussion about the new regs and what they mean for our team
💸 Operations
Material Acquisition underway
Oscilloscopes
Xbee
Transducer
Mouser
JLCPCB
System Liaison stuff needs to be sent to them and if they aren’t responding, let me know and I will reach out
Events for the next three weeks:
Nov. 3: Pistons at the Park
Nov 9-10: Electrify Expo
Nov 16-17: Austin Auto Festival
🛠️ Chief Engineer
We have four workdays left in this semester
Array area discussion: what information do we need to gather to make a decision
\uD83D\uDDE3 System Updates
🚨 Controls:
Updates
Lucy - Lighting schematic in progress
Eliana - Worked on finding datasheet and connector info for the desired pedal sensor. Current selection might not be used. Completed brakeline portion of the schematic. Pushed her current progress
Maddie & Krish - Pushed schematic deadline to Nov 14th. Review required. Thanks Lakshay and Prat for leaving reviews!
Mika - Selected inputs sensors for dashboard. need to order
Akshay - Display is chosen, camera in progress. Blocked because current choice wasn’t waterproofed (mb)
Oscar - given controls leader-daughter which is comprised of dashboard
Second half of workday - tested motor noise on array (woop woop Ikococator)
Week Plan
Order display, cameras, lights, compute module
Upcoming Deadlines
- - Leader rework order
🔥 BPS:
Updates
Michael (the cooler one) got his first PR merged in!
Fan board, Scrutineering, and PSOM are all in
Most soldering and testing is going to have to happen outside of workday
Starting dev on some test boards
Admittedly, there is not as much work progress on boards as I’d like
Clark and Abby are making good progress on their boards
Pheonix was blocked for a bit by a Lakshay skill issue but is doing well in her project and is moving pretty fast
Michael is starting work on our watchdog
Week Plan
BPS members are getting a soldering showcase from Champers during workday
Upcoming Deadlines
- - Deadline
⚡ Power Generation:
Updates
Connor doing docs for eclipse
Aleena and Isaac and Erika finished up sensor design schematics
Tanya tested I2c - i2c extender needed
Tong has generic grow light fresnel/plano-convex lens simulation done. working on constant current PCB
nash - successfully generated csv files from array shading/irradiance sims
praneel - finished up MPPT firmware flow chart, started installing firmware dependences. need to plan timelines for firmware.
Week Plan
praneel need to plan timelines for firmware
keep working
Upcoming Deadlines
- Order mppt sensor bby 11/09
📻 Data Acquisition:
Updates
Pit laptop RF receiver in dev.
Imu + wheel speed daughter board in dev.
Pychrono sim terrain + weather implemented
BSP UART close to completion
Environment board in review
RF dev boards ordered
Week Plan
Continue leaderboard dev.
Continue IMU + wheel speed board dev.
Continue RF receiver board dev.
Work on implementing mechanical characteristics into sim
Upcoming Deadlines
- - Deadline
🔋 Power Systems:
Updates
Power board schematic finished! good for review
Watts and Changxu almost done with an eFuse testboard schematic.
Shaun got polling test done for I2C BSP. Now working on interrupt based test.
Devin and Dylan finished contactor driver!!!!! Also finished high level block diagram of batt characterization board.
Jacob and Tony went through a bunch of edge cases with the Active Precharge board. Did a bunch of considerations into potential current pathways, floating nodes, etc.
Ravi still working on environmental board layout after several changes. Changes include creating a breakout board for humidity, temp, and airflow sensor. Currently trying to find a connector with a smaller form factor as per emech’s request.
Bosa and Kaden found a power monitoring chip for power monitoring board.
Week Plan
order contactor driver and (potentially) eFuse testboard
order mouser components
get power board reviewed and start layout
Upcoming Deadlines
- - Deadline
🔌 Electromechanical:
Updates
starting battery manufacturing
Layups can start as soon as the foam core arrives
CF and kevelar here already
Making test module(s) and doing testing
Week Plan
order hardware and aluminum
assemble universal enclosure and do water test workday
create manufacturing plan for how and when parts are being made
outsourced, waterjet, 3d print
assembly plan
get all waterjet files ready to manufacture
enumerate all hardware needed and order
Keep doing validation/load calcs of brackets, bus bars, etc to catch any underspeced parts
get cooling intakes and exhausts done - first design review
Finalize MPPT/Motor Controller cooling design and purchase heat sinks
start doing cfd and getting temperature gradients on segments
if we go to pickle - spot welding with sigma clad
Compile list of cell data needed for Cesar’s prof
Set up meeting with professor who works with batteries to review daybreak
Upcoming Deadlines
- - Deadline
🧑🏭 Body:
Updates
Ergo jig materials purchase request in → manufacturing this week?
Frame reference 1st iteration finished
Frame simulation setup progressing
Week Plan
Frame:
Finish composites research tasks by workday
Have ANSYS installed and ready to go for frame concept simulations
Begin research on potential frame jig designs
Ergo:
Manufacture ergo jig if possible
Start steering wheel research/design
Get Hall effect sensor and brake rotor/caliper specs (currently blocking Daybreak pedal box and brake calcs)
Print Pedal Jig prototype
Upcoming Deadlines
- -Ergo Jig Manufactured
- - All potential drivers measured on Ergo Jig
- - Roll Cage Position/Bounding box set
🔩 Dynamics:
Updates
Dynamics overall timeline is made.
Steering geometry optimization worked with Jacob on
Unsprung worked on mock uprights based on daybreak due EOD Saturday
Suspension worked on their practice suspensions due by start of Saturday workday
Week Plan
Share timelines new gen timeline with members and have them begin CADing the reference sketch parts
Finish reference sketch unfinalized hardpoints by EOD today
Upcoming Deadlines
- - Reference sketch with unfinalized hardpoints - General/Harshit
- - Steering rack selected - Steering
- - Backup tires that aren’t Bridgestone are decided - Unsprung
- - Mock uprights and hubs - Unsprung
- - Brake calipers and rotor size decided - Unsprung
- - Model bending forces and moments on the axle - Unsprung
- - Axle diameter decided - Unsprung
- - Axle length - Unsprung
- - Location of steering rack - Steering
- - Length of tie rods - Steering
- - Upper steering architecture selected - Steering
- - Steering rack extender length - Steering
- - Bump steer design optimization - Steering
- - Finalize brakes and rotor config - Unsprung
- - Caliper and motor mount for Swingarm - Unsprung + Suspension
- - Decide bearings - Unspung
- - Version 1 of Upright design in CAD - Unsprung
- - Version 1 of Hub design in CAD - Unsprung
- - Suspension Geometry Finalized - Suspension
💨 Aeroshell:
Updates
Aero Dependencies Chart
We selected who is working on different projects
We have someone for shell to shell and canopy tilting
Materials have been ordered for a lot of composites research projects, going to get the chance to make our test composites once they get in
Week Plan
Aerodynamics:
Esther goes over how she made daybreak
Either ANSYS lecture or more time spent working on the parts they have been assigned.
Members continue working on projects that have been assigned
decide on a few geometries for each thing to checkc
Composites
Continue surface prep on Daybreak
Continue research and start working on testing w/the materials that were just ordered (assuming they arrive)
Continue sanding metal sheet
Aeroshell
Reference sketch has been made
Progess on the actual CAD of the aeroshell has been not too bad
Upcoming Deadlines
- - Deadline
✅ Action items
- Add Nucleos support to Embedded Sharepoint - Ishan Deshpande
- Make more granular board prototype dealines, and discuss MPPT in elead