Welcome to the Electrical space!
As part of the Electrical team, you'll be working with the electrical systems of the car. We're responsible for
- battery protection
- battery charging
- power distribution
- driver controls
- controlling motor controllers
- telemetry
- lights
- gps
For an electrical overview of how a solar car works, please refer to the Intro to Solar Car Electrical Systems.
Also, please checkout the hardware knowledge shares and hardware tutorial
Hardware
We design and assemble all of our circuits ourselves. Our hardware team handles circuit design, PCB layout, board bring-up, and hardware debugging.
To get started, please refer to the following pages:
- Hardware Team Resource Hub
- Hardware 101
- Rules & Guidelines
- Using Altium Designer
- Version Control and Workflow
Software
All of our hardware requires firmware. Our firmware is written in C.
To get started, please refer to the following pages:
Fall 2017 Slideshow Presentation
This presentation gives a high level overview of the electrical system in MSXII and a list of available projects to work on. Please message either Calder Kitagawa (Firmware), Taiping Li(Hardware) if you have any questions about the specific projects.