💸 Operations
Updates
CR
Annika
working on getting the oscilloscopes (need purchase update from y’all)
tentative ship date for the transducers is 12/12
Niloo
Working on cowtown materials for massive foam blocks
still on the hunt for solar cells and stuff (need some responses from Andrew)
Working on smaller foam machiners
Arav
brakes and stuff, not much from him yet
Jackson
Mainly monetary right now
PR
Big things to come with ePlan
bi-weekly videos with their production team for mini-series
USA President and Global President slated to attend unveiling
hopeful unveiling partners
We need to begin using the software so that we can get into using the stuff for videos
these videos will be on ePlan website and socials and we can use as well
PR team will begin working on this starting our workday
Workday Plan
Begin teaching the team about new outreach software Jackson found
Practice pitches and cold calls
Final call for systems to give requests before break
Work with teams to finalize plans for merch and new opportunities to come next sem
🛠️ Chief Engineer
✅ Previous Action items
- Andrew gonna motivate
- i wanna talk with aeroshell
- i wanna talk with gerard/diya/parthy
- power gen new lead
- Rectangular vs Curved top shell FEA done by workday
\uD83D\uDDE3 System Updates
🚨 Controls:
Updates
Motor Controller STILL isn’t working (no more CAN Issues tho)
Parthiv can say more abt this
Don’t think this is from Controls side, need to verify.
Maddie and Krish - routing is in progress and almost complete
Lucy - Busy. Lighting schematic needed to be updated
Oscar - Leader Dash, SendTriitum
Mika - finished dash routing. review needed.
Eliana - Busy, started on pedals board schematic.
Week Plan
Upcoming Deadlines
didn’t get much progress over break as I wanted.
🔥 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 help
Week Plan
Upcoming Deadlines:
11/09/26 - BPS Software Architecture
⚡ 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
Upcoming Deadlines
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
- RF Board Layout
- IMU/RPM Board Layout
🔋 Power Systems:
Updates
Power board ordered!
eFuse testboard reviewed. Yet to be ordered
Active precharge board (hardware version) ordered and received! Jacob is testing LV side.
Power monitoring board 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
- - Power Board Layout
- - Order Power Board
- - Order eFuse testboard
- - ESP32 Batt Char board sch
- - Power Mon board layout
- - 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
Completed some initial Ansys sims (had errors with meshing, currently working on it)
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
- Dec 14th, 2024 - Finish welding plan and initial frame jig design plan
- Dec 14th, 2024 - Initial Ergo CAD designs finished
🔩 Dynamics:
Updates
General:
Slept and traveled not much work done
Unsprung:
Unsprung was traveling the entire time
Suspension:
Suspension 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:
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
Finalize 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
- - Upper steering architecture selected (is in talks with ergo and suspension)- Steering
- - Bump steer design optimization - Steering
- - Every single part has a CAD
- - Version 1 of Upright design in CAD - Unsprung
- - Finalize brakes and rotor config (Arav got us this data) - Unsprung
- - Caliper and motor mount for Swingarm - Unsprung + Suspension
- - Version 1 of Hub design in CAD - Unsprung
- - 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
- - Battery box layups + Kaden's test panel complete
- - 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