2021-09-20 Meeting Notes - VOID Payload

Last Week's Action Items

• Update BOM - everyone

  • everyone did

• start CAD work -@Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)

  • need to CAD screw switch, camera bracket, PDB

  • all other components done

• incorporate screw switches into CAD - @Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)

  • didn't happen this week, need Mike from the rocket, busy this week

• PDB investigation - @Dante Sivo (RIT Student), @Billy Siegener (RIT Student) (Deactivated), @Adam Lehman (RIT Student), @kwk8261

• submit BOM to NYSG

  • @Will Merges (RIT Student) - currently can't use launch card, need to check in with Carl

  • @Will Merges (RIT Student) - haven't submitted BOM yet, will do this week

• Find new name for PDB - everyone

  • darwin - nigel thornberry's chimpanzee

Drift Calculation - @Joy Sangsrichan (RIT Student) (Deactivated)

Open

• drift should only be ~2 miles with a 4ft parachute

  • within acceptable limit

• make sure to put this in the CDR (maybe typed out)

Clarification from NYSG - @Will Merges (RIT Student)

 NYSG responded to some questions:

• can extend final report to launch date, still need student info submitted by December

  • If we finish manufacturing (we will), submit that and then give a short update after launch

• need to send a report every other month, will need to send one first week of October

• clarified how we change items not originally on BOM

• got phone number of associate director

Reminders

• IREC PDR is this Saturday (9/26/21)

  • need to present "abbreviated" version of our PDR in it

    • 2-3 slides, mostly about how we interface with the rocket

  • please be present if you can

    • this is the first PDR new members will be seeing, set a good example and ask lots of questions

• Design deadline coming up - October 1st

PDB Discussion

Open

Open

@Dante Sivo (RIT Student) is point of contact for this project

• talk to Joe about receiver board for ground station

• add inline jumpers between UART lines to XBee for testing

• breakout reset pin on XBee

• get dimensions from Dante

CAD work

• meeting later this week - 6:30 on Thursday