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• Finished R&D tube
• Found 12 ft of fiberglass tubes 
• couplers OOS

• Finished first draft of Carter summary for tensile testing
• measured surface roughness of tubes

• Update draft summary with notes
• using charm as control for roughness - measuring R&D again
• get mark forged account

• tested fit for backplane - fit good
• using cheapest plastic that doesnt melt 
  • get a small piece of delrin to test laser cut 
  • look at online metals

Backplane

• software done for 3 drivers
  • LEDs, SPI flash, and Baro sensor
• Will code review tomorrow
• bringing breakouts home for break

• buy LCD screen for RRC3 and directional antenna
• figure out wiring harness
• decide on plastic to order and order before end of semester

Backplane

• Work to be done over break 

• Redefined requirements and goals of payload
• Wiki made for payload
• doing active deployment with smaller drogue

• Need to find speed to fall at
• finish airbrake CAD
  • With and without loadcell
  • make sure antenna fits
• Spec load cell
• simulate payload falling under streamer scaled down
• find snatch force under parachute - want to fall at 150 ft/s
• determine streamer length
• run FEA on snatch force

• Brought reaction wheel to maker faire
• encoder and magnetic sensor don't like each other
• modifying electronics mounting bracket
• to do list on asana

• separate encoder and magnetic sensor
• fix integration issue
• make new board
• change software for new board

• ordered recovery shit 20% off with special recovery components
• fixed problems with decent rate from CDR with streamer
  • now using a 100 ft streamer

• finalize open rocket by end of week
• play with TD2s