Overview

Date

• May 12th, 2020

Meeting Goals

• Come up with concrete onboarding plans

• Come up with solid new member tasks

• Clean up JIRA

Participants

• @Jess Douglas Muir (Deactivated) , @Catherine Cai

Tutorial strategy

Available resources

• Basics: Arshan’s video lectures on Shell, Git, and C programming

• Software 101: Setup, Hello World, Debugging, Blinking LED, Code Review

  • These are a bit dated, need to be adapted for remote work

• Libraries: Arshan’s video lectures on the controller board, GPIO, interrupts, CAN, ADCs, FSMs, Event Queues

• Software 102: Arshan video on codegen tooling, writeup of video

Ideally available resources

1. An ‘intro to solar cars’ document from a firmware perspective, outlining team responsibilities and general idea of tasks

   1. We don’t really have this right now

   2. Basic architecture

2. A document with a new firmware member checklist listing all the tutorials to work through

3. A section for basics, including written pages and videos

4. A section for libraries, including written pages, videos, and exercises for each library

5. A section on project structure / architecture, including writing tests

6. A section for using other utilities like codegen-tooling

* Probably should record lectures before fall at least

Plan for Friday

• Breakout zoom meeting for answering new member questions?

• Maybe a slack channel?

• Slack thread because jess is lazy

  • Mention doing setup before saturday

Plan for Saturday

• Just start with what we have (videos, Software 101)

• Answer questions about setup

• Get people to finish at least hello world tutorial

• Maybe run an intro lecture

Homework for new members next wednesday

• Come up with an exercise (maybe involving GPIO)

New member tasks

New member tasks from previous meetings

• Worksheets based on the old car’s code (“where do we do this?”)

  • Maybe not a good idea since too much work

• Mockup of the battery

  • Tooling project to help build the real project

• Other battery modules since it’s already designed

  • Needs to be fleshed out before assigning

• [Power Selection] Implement the communication to aux/DCDC through ADC, talk to Jarvis

• [MCI] Read error values from motor controller (hard)

• [Center Console] charging_manager: maintain charger state, handle permissions
  
  

Scope each task, and come up with a level difficulty level to assign it

Assignables:

• [Power Selection] Implement the communication to aux/DCDC through ADC, talk to Jarvis

• [Center Console] charging_manager: maintain charger state, handle permissions

• Pair up new ish members with new members for help with setting up

Future plans

• Set deadline for the 4 todo items this term august 28th (unit testing)

  • AFEs

  • Current Sense

  • BMS Carrier

  • Solar

JIRA

Questions

• 23 ask about status

• 28 ask status? Any work complete?

• 107 status? Probably just mark as done

• 106 status? Probably just mark as done

TODO

For Jess to do before Saturday:

• Write an intro to solar cars from firmware

• Onboarding checklist

• Exercise for homework for wednesday

• Look into current sense to determine assignability
  
  

For Jess to do before next Saturday

• Look into finishing high level designs for BMS carrier and Solar

  • Start with BMS since it already is somewhat planned

More meetings

• Longer term tutorial / curriculum planning

Layout of kanban

• Backlog (unassigned), todo, selected for dev, in progress, code review, done

• Get the hardware kanban dropdown for swimlanes