2024-10-22 (not) Meeting minutes

Life Updates:

  • Lakshay - Saw Joker (not the movie, a guy on the bus dressed like the Joker). Did hardware arch design review

  • Nathan - fell off metro bike in front of a crowd… -100 aura. Dont push the front break, push the back one

  • Michael - dropped $30 on a rubik’s cube because I have fallen down the rabbit hole again

  • Phoenix - i voted!

  • Kadhir - went to don toliver concert. it was lit af. snuck into pit for about 5 seconds before security got mad and sent us back :(

  • Abby - roomate went to don toliver concert

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Org Updates

We had hardware arch review last Sunday and got some good feedback from the alumni.

We will at some point be explaining some of our hardware arch design decisions to everyone after we’ve evaluated the feedback form the review.

What you got done last workday

Nathan - Found the magic component, isolated modulators. I have almost finished analyzing the previous Amperes board and have a list of possible chips and configurations that they can be in. I appreciated the hardware presentation as it gave more insight on the relationship between peripheral, leader and daughterboards.

Clark - Researched op amps and ADCs. Found ones that work best for the leader board. Set up some of the power supply decoupling capacitors.

Phoenix - tested 50% PWM generation on Nucleo and began non-blocking PWM code.

Kartik - Almost finished driver code for I2C fan just need to do the PWM control function then will create pull request

kadhir - struggled hella with getting CAN loopback to run on different stm32 boards. a '/' proved to be my biggest enemy.

Abby - Chose ADC and op AMPS, started connecting it to the other circuit componenets.

Will you be attending workday

@Lakshay Gupta
@Kadhir Vivekanandan Kalavathy
@Phoenix Nguyen
@Abigail Parsons
@Aneri Patel
@Clark Rucker
@Michael Adeluyi
@Nathan Lemma
@Kartik Rai

End of workday goal

Nathan - Create a functional diagram of what components I have and need for the Amperes board on KiCAD and start reading data sheets to try to connect some of the these components together. This includes the ADC, DC/DC converter, butterworth filter (that I might not need to do anymore as there are built in filters in the chips) and figuring out how to transmit the data to the peripheral board.

Clark - Finish setting up power supply decoupling for the ADC and hopefully complete the preliminary schematic.

Phoenix - write c file in a reviewable state

Kartik - Create pull request for I2C fan and get posgresql working on my laptop for the service

  • Data base plan

    • install posgreSQL

    • run the array simulation

    • Figure out way to dump data from reading to a csv

    • take this and put into database with SQL

    • Visualize

Kadhir - finish testing can loopback and create pull request. and redo temperature board and get it reviewed. any possible sidequests lakshay assigns me. I'm gonna be a bit late to workday. prob around 11 or so.

Abby - Finish connecting the ADC and assign resistor values.