Meeting notes Fall 24-25

Backplane SW update

@Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Aaron Chan (RIT Student)

Rewrote FSW or at least lots of libs. Can run FSW from machine

GS update

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)

Started rewrite

Got requirements done

Backplane SW update

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

@Richard Sommers (RIT Student) Did a data logging lib
Sensor mod, power and radio and almost done integrating with software stack

GS update

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

Been collecting SW from git @Will Merges (RIT Student) Tinseey code from @Aaron Chan (RIT Student)

Liquids

@Jonah Gimmi (RIT Student) @Riley Quinn (RIT Student) @Jake G @Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

Not much but ready for AVI!!

BBL box

@Dean O'Brien (RIT Student) @Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)

@Jonathan Godfrey (RIT Student) Finished CAD in fusion
@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student) Hasn't done anything sorry need to talk to Jonathan

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

Meet to talk about with @Mary Dertinger (RIT Student) @Aaron Chan (RIT Student)

GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)

Not getting Framework until winter break

Liquids

Not here but gave Oscar Wills contact info

HAB BBL box

@Dean O'Brien (RIT Student) @Mary Dertinger (RIT Student) @Jonathan Godfrey (RIT Student)

Nothing

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

Nothing

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) worked on stm cube

@Richard Sommers (RIT Student) worked on event detection

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student) worked on slideshow

Literally nothing.

“UH” - @Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student)

GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student) @Declan Flood (RIT Student) @ Zach

• Still brainstorming and updated wiki

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• going pretty good.

• 490 feet of cat 5 in the basement ….

• Emailed @Will Merges (RIT Student) about GRAFANA

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Made lucid chart

• Started selecting parts

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• High level diagram done

• Start selecting components

• Deciding if we are doing radio silliness (activating before launch)

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• Aaron merged in sensor telemetry code

• simulation works

• started working on radio mod telemetry

• @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) worked on making open rocket sensor better - fixes and randomness (not perfect sensors)

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Interface with influxdb and grafana

• GSW minimal is done – made more useable for non power users

• @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student) did some optimization

• @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student) wrote a script that runs the GSW as a service but untested

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

timeline, talked about sensor(sensor mod ones), looked into what processor to use(picked a model need to decide on package), discussed stand alone aspec

GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student) @Declan Flood (RIT Student) @ Zach

• Made crude hardware schematic

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• still selecting parts

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• still selecting parts

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• Power mod SW merged, telemrty SW merged, magnatometers are evil - Richie

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Stephen hasnt done anything

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• Testing Brainboard → appears to work woop woop

• Appears to detect continuity for a wire

• PDR today

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GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student) @Declan Flood (RIT Student) @ Zach

• Still specing out c omponents

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• Got a servo valve running!!

• Waiting on stuff to arrive

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Looking at different micro controllers

• still looking at atimeters

• need mary to teach altium

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• Rough component selection done

• need mary to teach altium

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• Not much

• Radio module SW RIGHT NOW

• Richie PR did not go through “sorry richie” -Aaron

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Made progress … ? but linux feature is not good :((((((

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• PDR went well

• Gave people jobs

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• Looked at different STM series and respecing based on PDR feedback

GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student) @Declan Flood (RIT Student)

• New schematic

• New choices for components

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Parts finalized

• Switching out MCU

• Switched out parts to ones on JLC

• Found a voltage regulator

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• Found a voltage regulator

• Found a battery WITH LEADS

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• Radio mod SW issues, working on a new design

• Richie did random stuff lol

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Merged the thing that lets it run as a service

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Tested RRC3, 6ish working ones 7 that work

• We need to talk to Mary about backplane

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• Got estimate for gyro error

• Buzzer

• new STM drop WOOP WOOP

• Schematic things

• Ethernet PHY

GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student) @Declan Flood (RIT Student)

• Working on down selecting components

• Doing more research with SDR

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• Last Saturday got UPD packets and will move a servo!!

• 2 mece independent servos into 1

• Connectors for DAQ

• Thermocouple values from DAQ on tues

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Started Altium

• Maybe switching out sensor bc of Mr. Balloon

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• Spent hour and a half trying to get load switch into altium while @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) tried to get a fork

• Found a battery

• Finished Drain timeline diagram

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• Richie worked phase detection, and we have it simulated demo/proposal

• Continued to work on radio mod stuff hopefully done within next week or two

• RS485 class needs to be tested to test sensor mod again

• delegating async and RS485 to Stephen

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Nothing

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Did fan testing, doesnt impact pressure

• Down selected components!!!

• Alan gave us more work

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• We were supposed to have schematic review today but not ready

• Need to update some components and symbols to make sure they are launch standard

• need to check new STM

GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student) @Declan Flood (RIT Student)

• Not too much just continuing on comonent selection

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• Did not end up testing the DAQ on Saturday because I have been teaching people CAD

• Exiting new high speed imagining project for injector spray angle and velocity

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Working on schemtaics

• Created footprints

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• Schematic for boost converter is almost done

• Need to import micro controller and JST

• Something about blowing up an LED

• Box form factor is changing - rotate and squish

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• Fixed some bugs in Sensor mod code

• Added SW timer library

• Can't reproduce I2C lockup issue but it is magically working now ?????

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Made it so configuration is publish to shared memory

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Not here

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• Still struggling to make components - need to add footprints but not liking the process

GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student) @Declan Flood (RIT Student)

• Finished BOM - below $450

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• Still have not been able to pull values off the DAQ because no time

• Solenoids are in the control code now !!! need to learn HTTP

• URRG is setting up 3 burns of earth for large medium rocket testing platforms with camera and some sort of DAQ - have been invited to help with that

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Schematics done (Draft done)

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• Schematics in progress - backtracking bc forgot JLC parts

• 3D model is cooking

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) Thought a little bit about deployment module code

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Nothing much soon TM

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Been doing a lot of non avi stuff necessary for av by

• @Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) met with JHOOPSTER and helped

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• James is right, it should be heirarchical instead of flat

• Glad Jim is here b/c have question about buzzer

• Looking through points - lots of pins

GS update

@Declan Flood (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student)

• Chris redid schematic and is updating bom

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• Havent done anything

• trying to model current testing bucks as an intro to cad

• tested servo valve ripped balls out - not ideal housing is being redesigned

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• First schematic review

• need to add caps and ESD protection and fuse

• Mr. Balloon wants small batteries

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• Disscussing if they want to redoing schematic for a charge pump

• where led and how to mount

• fixes for schematic review

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• GNSS is back up

• Still testing LORA stuff

• Starting to work on file system

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Working on getting config and variables done

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• CDR on the 23rd WOOP WOOP

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• working through schematci commenst

GS update

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student) @Declan Flood (RIT Student)

• Upate schematic

• update bom

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• HAS THE DAQ !!

• Working with the DAQ makes me wish for a functional PROMT/POTATO

• Need a tutorual from @Aaron Chan (RIT Student)

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Still resolving comments on schematic review

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• We have one cap left to work out

• Then layout

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• Radio mod FSW merged inclduing GNSS and Lora

• New feature remote activation needs to be integrated but there is a demo

• Lots of bugs fixed

• Data logging needs to simulated

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

@Aiden Penza (RIT Student)

• Working on reading from a config file

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Found DARWIN!!

• CDR LOTS of CDR

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• New sensor high G woop woop

• LSM6D032TR

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GS update

@Declan Flood (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student)

• Checking USB hubs

• Auto shutoff when closing or loud alarm

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Finished Schematic - ready for round 2

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• Layout hopefully today

• Jim mentioning things about explosions

• Breifly touch on remote activation

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

@Aiden Penza (RIT Student)

• New member

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• CDR went well

• Starting on progress report 1

• thinking about unified freq table

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• Keeping it flat

• Making SPICE for deployment circuitry

• Want to split up STM into 2 blocks

GS update

@Declan Flood (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student)

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• Liquids is having a second CDR

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• Scchematic done?

• Gonna start layout

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student) …

• Basically almost done … kinda

• Layout done?

• Finishing enclosure

• Looking into case tearing (RF shield)

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student)

• Data logging is don

• Merged … backplane SW done maybe

• Planning a flight sw in the loop tool

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

@Aiden Penza (RIT Student)

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Progress report due this week

• @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student) touched the CAD model

Radio Module 1.1.1

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student) @Louis Fleisher (RIT Student)

• I finsihed GPIO but i need to route reest of LED

Deployment Module

@Damian Suarez (RIT Student)

@Natalia Sokolov (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• Working on schematic

GS update

@Declan Flood (RIT Student)
@Chris Seibak (RIT Student)

• Found the power button

• Started working on CAD

• CADing the motherboard

• Cry and CAD

Liquids

@Oscar Gigon (RIT Student)

• Tested the light stick and has an alarm

• Harassed people in T&E with buzzers

• CDR work over break

HAB BBL box

@Gautham Mutyala (RIT Student) @Ben Fass (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) …

• “Finished” PCB layout and waiting for review

• mary says she’ll do it right now

RunCam board

@Zack Millevoi (RIT Student) @Everett Gianni (RIT Student)
@Shai Dahan (RIT Student)

@Anthony Von Pischke (RIT Student) @Braden Sherman (RIT Student)

• Will be done with layout in 5 minutes ong frfr

• They’re definitely not finished from what Im hearing

Backplane SW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Richard Sommers (RIT Student) @Liam Kelly (RIT Student) @Rafael Gilboa (RIT Student)

• nothing lol

• Blast Wills documentation on old GSW

• Get better documentation over break

GSW

@Aaron Chan (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

@Aiden Penza (RIT Student)

• nothing as well x)

IREC Avi

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• @Louis Fleisher (RIT Student) on load switch breakout

• Start working on assembly and test plan procedures over break

• FDR Feb 8th!

Radio Module 1.1.2

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student) @Louis Fleisher (RIT Student)

• Ordered on Sat

• bad(?) cap

• cut the ESD protection on the SWD connector

  • ESD is not real

  • Saves us money

  • screw u big embedded