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\uD83D\uDDD3 Date


\uD83D\uDC65 Attendance

  •  Michael Mohn
  •  Philip Bortolotti
  •  Hardhik Sripuram
  •  Gerard Cardenas
  •  Pratyush Patra
  •  Diya Rajon
  •  Lakshay Gupta
  •  Andrew Yin
  •  Pablo Romero
  •  Frank Li
  •  Parthiv Shah
  •  Noah Hickman
  •  Harshit Dalmia
  •  Jason Heston
  •  Evan Zhang
  •  Joshua Miksits
  •  Advait Joshi
  •  Matthew Murzaku
  •  Aidan Hodgin
  •  Kaden Nguyen
  •  Cesar Hernandez
  •  Ishan Deshpande

📝 General Updates

\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 board by 11/09
  •  Tong order constant current irradiance board by 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 fins

  • 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 dealinesdeadlines, and discuss MPPT in eleade-leads - Pratyush Patra
  •  I need to talk with jessica about amazon ordering

⤴ Decisions