2024-09-25 Electrical Leads Meeting Minutes

5 Mins

Introduction

@Pratyush Patra

Onboarding plan

@Pratyush Patra

• What are all of you going to be giving to members during your system specific thing? KiCAD, git stuff, vscode stuff? Are you making presentations?

  • BPS- What boards? How boards communicate? RTOS? STM? OpenOCD and GDB? Voltage? Pictures? How BPS interacts w the rest of the car? KiCAD, vscode/WSL, git

  • PS- What boards? HV diagram? Battery layout? Contactor, precharge, dcdc converter? KiCAD, vscode/WSL, git

  • PG- Introduce members, System-level vocab, Present all projects in depth, KiCAD, vscode/WSL, git

  • DAcq- Architecture, Projects, IMU full stack, KiCAD, vscode/WSL, git

  • Kontrols- System diagrams from daybreak and new car, regs, software stack, projects, daybreak upkeep, KiCAD, vscode/WSL, git

• What should go in the big electrical presentation? My thoughts

  • Welcome hi hello introduce leads again, join github

  • Our old systems/contextualize where we are as a division

    • Talk about daybreak briefly but not architecture stuff

    • talk about comp and how comp went. what is the goal of comp

  • Our new system architecture

    • Talk about what systems are doing frmo a high level, CAN

    • Talk about SOM and sharepoint from a high level, What MCU we use, Contactor

    • Discuss briefly why we made the decisions we did

  • Our design practices

    • Emphasis on organized and documented decision making. Incremental project goals. High-level when we want to finish stuff

  • Culture stuff to make them feel welcome

  • Homework project

    • Fan Board doc

• New hire doc

• KiCAD setup doc

Daybreak Updates

Everyone

• What is status on projects? Who is doing what?

• Contactor Driver- September 28th(Twins)

• BPS Scrutineering- September 28th (Pratshay)

• BPS Fan Board- September 28th (Lakshay)

• Dashboard PCB- November 16th (New Member)

• Controls Rework- November 16th (Maddie and Krish)

• New MPPTs- ASAP(Andrew and I and Ops(PARTHIV I NEED MPPT))

• Debug the old controls backup(Lakshay, Prat, Diya, Nathaniel, whoever else wants to)

• Power Board- December 7th(Frank and Carogoat)

• Motor

Next Car Updates

Everyone

• SOM and Sharepoint updates?

  • Design should be locked to order PSOM

  • Start on LSOM

  • Assign members to sharepoint stuff ASAP there's been like no progress

  • BSP verified by Spring Break

15 Mins

Design Reviews

Everyone

• Imma post the dates in electrical

• October 5th- Battery

• October 12th- Power Architecture

• October 19th- Sensor Suite

• UTSVT fix

• BUY ORGANIZERS