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🚨 Controls:

Updates

• Maddie and Krish - Layout routing is in progress and almost complete

• Lucy - Lighting schematic draft reviewedMika - finished dash routing. review needed.

• Oscar - Leader Dash, SendTriitum

• Mika - Addressing Parthiv’s ideas on dashboard, addressing pedals board accel sensor

Week Plan

• meeting with Eliana Thursday to look at brakeline for board

• I intend to stay on campus throughout break to catch up on whatever work is behind (after 5 PM everyday): pedals board, MC fix if possible, ordering, finalizing with dash etc.

Upcoming Deadlines

Pedal needs to have first draft completed EOW.

🔥 BPS:

Updates

•  Boards are developing

• Michael tested his watchdog on hardware but there’s some weird stuff going on, will be starting RTOS stuff soon

• Phoenix is testing her RTOS stuff on a Nucleo now

• Aneri got SPI running on Nucleo and is working on it over break

• Clark is pretty close to starting layout and I think he can get it done pretty quickly

• Abby is also pretty close to starting but she needs to address comments on the schematic

• Progress on Amperes board is kinda slow, if it conitnues to be slow I’ll starting adding more helpEliana - Busy, started on pedals board schematic.

• Lucy - Busy. Lighting schematic needed to be updated

• Akshay - started on schematic for the breakout board

Week Plan

• wanna go to pickle to test motor stuff. i can’t go in until friday. maybe have another member go in with Parthiv.

• one on ones (next week)

Upcoming Deadlines

• didn’t get much progress over break as I wanted.

• Controls Software Architecture

• Motor controller -

🔥 BPS:

Updates

• No progress on Watchdog from Michael over break. I’m helping him with some errors he has in there.

• Phoenix is integrating the PWM code she’s writing into some other code that was recently written.

• Clark starting layout

• Abby is also starting layout

• Goal for Amperes is reviewable schematic by end of workday but I expect that to be pushed a weekish

• I doubt boards will be ready by winter break, talking to my members they said they could work on it during break.

Week Plan

Upcoming Deadlines:

• [in review ]- 11/09/26 - BPS Leader Software Architecture 

• [In review] PeripheralSOM

• 11/23/26 - IWDG with HAL and no RTOS

⚡ Power Generation:

Updates

• Accepted quote for MPPT

• Tanya and Tong about to send review request

  • Constant current lighting driver schematics

  • Temperature sensor schematics

• Erika started ADC breakout boards layout

Week Plan

• Commercial MPPT arrived :0

• Tanya

  • should we daisy chain or web blackbody Cs?

  • gonna have a separate irradiance board from blackbody C to extend to top shell

• There’s issues with rectangle topshell

• MPPT group

  • moving on to researching boost converter

  • waiting for champer’s final review of schematics

• Tong

  • Schematics for lighting. Should be ready for review this weekend.

Week Plan

•  Need to fill out some forms for solar cells for Niloo

• Did operations reach out to make-my-solar? Can’t remember if I’ve done the forms yet.

Upcoming Deadlines

• 12/9/2024 - Array Layout Sent to D2 for review

• 12/16/2024 - Order boards

• 01/19/2024 - Array x Mechanical PDR

📻 Data Acquisition:

Updates

• Weather + Array + Battery + Terrain all integrated. Working on simulating dynamics.

• RF Receiver schematic complete. Working on layout

• IMU/RPM board schematic complete. Working on layout.

Week Plan

• Give thanks to the people that have given us so much

Upcoming Deadlines

23 Nov 2024 - RF Board Layout

23 Nov 2024 - IMU/RPM Board Layout

🔋 Power Systems:

Updates

• Power board layout complete. Waiting on review. Reviews will be addresed prior to thanksgiving break and ordered by the same deadline.Contactor driver and dataacq env board ordered.ordered!

• eFuse testboard ready for review. Will be ordered alongside power boardGood progress on env board software (reading humidity and temp values on terminal).reviewed. Yet to be ordered

• Active precharge board undergoing a slight change (changing power delivery from LDO to buck). Finished and awaiting review(hardware version) ordered and received! Jacob is testing LV side.

• Power monitoring board sch reviewed. Layout will start soon.

• Encountered some issues when trying to spotweld on sigmaclad. Reached out to Kevin Yu (electric) with observations and questions. Havent recieved a response just yet.

Week Plan

• Continue battery manufacturing (spotwelding) testing

• review active precharge and eFuse testboard.

• We also try out hand at the challenges placed before us. But we do it better. 😎

• layout started.

• No waterjetted sigma clad yet. Might need to do some spot-welding over break.

Week Plan

• push for board finalization and get most (if not all) current-gen and test boards ordered soon.

Upcoming Deadlines

•  09 Nov 2024 - Power Board Layout
•  24 Nov 2024 - Order Power Board
•  24 Nov 2024 - Order eFuse testboard
•  24 Nov 2024 - ESP32 Batt Char board sch
•  24 Nov 2024 - Power Mon board layout
•  24 Nov 2024 - Active Precharge layout

🔌 Electromechanical:

Updates

• eplan licenses acquired

• moco cooling complete

• Intake/exhaust panel patterns

Week Plan

• replace motor fuse, try to run again

• finish battery panels and send them to get water jet

• start manufacturing new battery locks

• start manufacturing vibration jig

• cooling stuff - intake, exhaust, mppt, calcs

Upcoming Deadlines

•  Dec 4 - MPPT and MoCo Enclosures

🧑‍🏭 Body:

Updates

• Frame 1st iteration had to be redone

• Jig Design plan and Welding order started

• Pedal Jig used, pedal ratio was tested and confirmed for daybreak pedal box redesign

• Steering Wheel layup setup tested, CFC viable for steering wheel construction, needs some refinement

Week Plan

• Go over welding theory to help with jigging/welding plan

• Re-finish 1st frame iteration, start ansys sims

• Decide pedal box placement/bounding boxCompleted some initial Ansys sims (had errors with meshing, currently working on it)

• Work done on daybreak pedal box (to be finished soon)

• yeah lol it was break

Week Plan

• Finish simming latest frame iteration

• Compile next steps for changing frame design

• Continue work on Daybreak pedal box redesign

• Finish up initial CAD designs for next-gen steering wheel, ballast box, and daybreak steering wheel

Upcoming Deadlines

•  Nov 16Dec 14th, 2024 - Roll cage position/dimensions set
•  Nov 16, 2024 - Driver Model finalized
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• Finish welding plan and initial frame jig design plan
•  Dec 14th, 2024 - Initial Ergo CAD designs finished

🔩 Dynamics:

Updates

• General:

  • Manufactured inserts for composite testingSlept and traveled not much work done

• Unsprung:

  • Decided brakes

  • CAD for rear a-arm structure

  • Sohan began learning manufacturing with me and GerardUnsprung was traveling the entire time

• Suspension:

  • Talked with fergo to better understand bounding boxes and HDPTS need to be changed

  • All members got Ansys installed

  • Carter is doing finding the loads related to bell cranks

  • Oliver and La’akea began learning manufacturing with me and Gerard

  Steering:

  • Found lower steering rack geometrySuspension got a mix of some CAD and force matrix but also some weren’t able to get work done.

• Steering:

  • Steering got upper and lower steering CAD to exist

Week Plan

• CAD for every part should exist by Thursday

• Unsprung:

  More mockup designs for both front and rear

  • Sim the hubs

    • Redesign

  • Break button dimensions and forces on the rotor when we lock up

  • Figure out how to properly use SKF simquick pro

• Suspension:

  • First iteration rear reference sketch

  • Load conditions for suspension focusing on bell cranks

  • Oliver and La’akea testing pushrods

  • Test with dummy suspension

• Steering:

  • Reviewing lower steering rack geometry

  • Members work on designs for upper steering, figuring out how gearbox will workFinalize brake rotor design, figure out ways to manufacture in house or outsource the manufacturing of the brake rotors, and document your brake rotor decision process

  • Make CAD for trailing arm with caliper mount, motor joint, and “pin joint” for the frame

• Suspension:

  • completely define the hdpts

  • first sim dummy apexes and bellcranks

  • define spring rates ( have to talk to ic and fix some orientations of the masses on the car maybe)

  • probably going to tweak the motion ratio in the front - first shock selections

• Steering:

  • Talk to Kenta about actual location of upper steering pertaining to steering wheel

  • Fix the steering in the frame reference sketch

Upcoming Deadlines

•  16 Nov 2024 - Brake calipers and rotor size decided (Arav got us this data) - Unsprung 16 20 Nov 2024 - Upper steering architecture selected (is in talks with ergo and suspension)- Steering
•  16 Nov 2024 - Bump steer design optimization - Steering
•  16 Nov 05 Dec 2024 - Every single part has a CAD
•  05 Dec 2024 - Version 1 of Upright design in CAD - Unsprung
•  16 Nov 05 Dec 2024 - Finalize brakes and rotor config (Arav got us this data) - Unsprung
•  23 Nov 05 Dec 2024 - Caliper and motor mount for Swingarm - Unsprung + Suspension
•  23 Nov 2024 - Decide bearings - Unspung 16 Nov 05 Dec 2024 - Version 1 of Hub design in CAD - Unsprung
•  16 Nov 2024 - Suspension Geometry Finalized - Suspension07 Dec 2024 - Brake calipers and rotor size decided (Arav got us this data) - Unsprung

💨 Aeroshell:

Updates

• Aerodynamics

  • some members(at least 2) got their sims done

• Composites

  • all bb layups except 1

  • all daybreak prep done, pretty much ready to bond w/ frame whenever

  • Did first frame test pieces

  • Did one with a higher vol fraction which looks better (bc less excess resin) but i forgot to take pic

  • Sanded the fcf part a bit, not effective. takeaway: we need to get rid of layer lines in mold. solution, more sanding or acetone vapor stuff

    

  • michael and i cleaned out pickle

Week Plan

• Aerodynamics

  • everyone needs to have an idea for the part they want to put on the shell, it needs to be able to put together as a final part on workday

• Aeroshell(me)

  • need to define some architecture things by workday, flat topshell or not,

• Composites

  • finish battery box, another metal sheet to be sanded, start making test coupons for nomex honeycomb frame panels, finalize test fixtures for panels, finalize test plans for demold and resin infusion

  • Also will be working w/ emech to finalize plans for composite enclosure and also testing abs acetone vapor stuff to use in composite enclosure and composite steering wheel

Upcoming Deadlines

•  Nov 20, 2024 - aerodynamics members have sims prepped
•  03 Dec 2024 - Battery box layups + Kaden's test panel complete
•  03 Dec 2024 - Daybreak shell prep complete and ready for shell to frame attachment
•  Dec 7, 2024 (Before workday) - Aerodynamics members know what part they want to put on the shell
•  Dec 7, 2024 (EOD) - Model of car is made around the frame, and it has all the parts that members have made