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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

  • I will also be doing a talk on ✨ reading datasheets ✨

Upcoming Deadlines

  •   - Deadline

⚡ Power Generation:

Updates

  • Updates Go Here

Week Plan

  • Updates Go Here

Upcoming Deadlines

  •   - Deadline

  • 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

  • Updates Go Here

Week Plan

Updates Go Here

  • 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

  • Updates Go Here

Week Plan

  • Updates Go Here

Upcoming Deadlines

  •   - Deadline

  • 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

  • Updates Go Here

Week Plan

Updates Go Here

  • 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

  •   - Deadline - 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

Jason and Aidan need to make reference sketches and two starter shells b4 next workday

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

⤴ Decisions