2024-11-09 Leads Meeting

  1. Electrical

    1. Aden : I won’t be at Leads today since I’m helping Full day for Fall Open House, but an electrical update is below :

    2. Doing a large PCB review session to send out PCBs before Nov 15th funding expiry

    3. Boards being sent out

      1. MS16 controller board + breakout board + SWD Adapter V2

      2. IMU + Telemetry small update

      3. Lighting control board

      4. BMS Carrier

      5. BMS AFE

    4. Co-op will be placed onto Vehicle Harnessing, goal is to have a driveable/reliable elec system by the end of this term before Me + Evan head on coop

    5. Firmware:

      1. Wrote software for 70-80% of drivers [GPIO, UART, CAN, MASTER TASKS, NOTIFY, QUEUES, INTERRUPTS, FLASH] (Hope they all work) for the new controller board

      2. The battery test script is done + software tested. Fixing BMS wires + connections and doing discharge test Sunday with a new member from Battery

      3. Reduced code size by ~11%

  2. Mechanical

    • MS15.5 Chassis resim to actual weight of car - currently failing

      • Each team is looking for opportunities for weight optimization

    • PVDR edits & submission

    • 1:1s & Resume Critiques Update

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  3. Operations

    • Cheque sent out for race registration fees

    • Team Participation Agreement, Team Entry Form, and Proof of Insurance sent

    • Members have been working on monetary sponsorship outreach - will get updates on today’s meeting

    • Will talk about merch during today’s meeting

    • From the last meeting, we talked about having a middle-man for each sub team (would you mind sending in who those will be in the sponsorships channel?)

    • Dean’s funding will most likely be released by the end of November

  4. Other

  • IEF Conference, opening registration to general members (if we can’t get 20, we’ll opt for registration cost for 5 + add ons)

    • Operations Task (@Fatima) : Comparing prices for 20 ppl vs 5 ppl, consider hotels and travel costs