Participants: Titus Chow, Calder Kitagawa, Karl Ding, Kevin Chen (Unlicensed), Taiping Li
Overall Goal: The vehicle electrical system should be done by January 2018 so that we can test and improve on the entire system prior to it being installed into the car
Projects
Array (Calder Kitagawa, Jessica Lin, Minghao Ji)
- Determine what we want to do and possibly put down a deposit before the end of the term
Battery (Adam Marchand, Titus Chow)
- We expect our cells to arrive by the end of June, so parts for prototyping should be done by then
- Current deadline of June 24th to have all the copper sheets cut and dimpled, as well as all hardware sourced
BMS (Kevin Chen (Unlicensed), Karl Ding)
- Hardware
- AFE board should be done by June 9th for fabrication
- Carrier board should be done end of June
- Software
- Basic functions should be implemented to protect the test modules by the end of June/early July
Power Distribution (Taiping Li, Calder Kitagawa)
- Hardware
- The board should be done by June 9th for fabrication
- Software
- Software should be done by the end of June
Driver Controls (Fidel Musa (Deactivated), Norman Chong (Unlicensed))
- Hardware
- All schematics should be done by end of June (button board + carrier board)
- Carrier board PCB should be done by end of June
- Software
- Demo in June
- Code should be complete by end of June/early July (by boards come in)
SWD Adapter (Norman Chong (Unlicensed))
- Done by June 9th for fabrication
DCDC (TBD)
- Done by end of Fall 2017
Aux BMS (Timea Ratiu (Unlicensed))
- Block diagram should be done by the end of June
- PCB done by end of term
Motor Interface Board (Fidel Musa (Deactivated))
- Hardware
- Looking into using STM32F0 as co-processor on carrier board
- Board done by end of year
- Prototype with two controller boards
- Software
- Proof of concept by end of term
Lights (TBD)
- Hardware
- Lights should be chosen for the lights by end of June
- Software
- Software should be done by the end of the term
Telemetry (Calder Kitagawa, Karl Ding)
- Hardware
- Eval boards will be used till we have resources on the hardware team
- Software
- January 2018
Solar Interface (Titus Chow)
- Hardware
- Probably using I2C slave boards
Orders
Elecrow
- Board order on June 9th for AFE, Power Distribution, SWD Adapter, Controller Board rev4
- Board order July 7 for BMS carrier, Driver Controls (carrier board only, no button board)
Digi-key
- One order on May 29
- One order once Elecrow ships the boards out
Mouser
- Dura-clik crimp tool, crimps, ISL retainers, receptacles etc