2024 - 08 - 21 Meeting notes

5 min

Org Updates

Lakshay Gupta

• Back to school 😨

• The grind will soon begin

• Pickle cleanup this Saturday! There will also be a social after

• New members are expected to join September 28th

15 min

Projects

Everyone

PeripheralSOM:

• Lakshay

• New SOM Power Architecture

Next-gen Amperes PCB:

• Nathan

I2C Fan Driver:

Temperature Driver:

• Aniruddh

High level software architecting:

10 min

Onboarding

Everyone

The plan for first day is to do a BPS orientation presentation w/ our architecture and some common terms. Proposed topics:

• What BPS does

• Description of BPS boards

• Overview of BPS software

• Important Terminology:

  • CAN

  • RTOS

  • DC-DC converter

  • MCU

• Pictures + overall picture of how things mesh together

• What BPS does for the car’s electrical system w/ importance

Planning to recruit 4 members to BPS.

New member hardware projects:

• Next-gen BPS Leader (1 member)

• Next-gen Supplemental Monitoring (1 BPS member working with a Power Systems member)

New member software projects:

• Application dev?

• Will need to see where shared software stack is within the next month

Look into intro class curriculum

5 min

Conclusion

Lakshay Gupta

When does everyone get back to Austin? I’d like to do a BPS dinner/social before new members join

(Chuy’s)

New weekly meeting: https://lettucemeet.com/l/NPx2M

Questions?