2021-10-25 Meeting Notes - VOID Payload

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2021-10-25 Meeting Notes - VOID Payload

Date

Oct 25, 2021

Attendees

  • @Will Merges (RIT Student)

  • @Aaron Chan (RIT Student)

  • @Kenny Kim (RIT Student) 

  • @Dante Sivo (RIT Student) 

  • @Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student) 

  • @Ben Hyman (RIT Student) 

  • @Billy Siegener (RIT Student) (Deactivated)

  • @Jonathan Russo (RIT Student) 

  • @kwk8261 

  • @Seth Davidson (RIT Student) 

  • @Matthew Klein (RIT Student)

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Last Week's Meeting Notes

 

 Purchasing

Design Freeze

  • DARWIN done, ready to be ordered

    • one more pass, check for safety, check with Yev

    • wishlist

      • ground/return broken out? (already one next to XBee reset, another would be nice)

      • +/- polarity label on battery connectors and camera power (battery connectors should only go in one way)

      • label tx/rx on camera UARTs

      • get access to surface mount lab ahead of time? email lab guy (ask Kenny)

      • who's gonna fab it? JLC?

      • make connectors vertical rather than perpendicular (still want locking ones), not a huge deal but more convenient

      • LED indicator (or have the XBee spit packets to us)

        • add an LED (neopixel?) to XBee GPIO - nice for debugging too

Future Plans

  • get everyone HAM licensed

    • MIT online in November

 Action items

 DARWIN bois - finalize wishlist items - Saturday 10/30/21

@Will Merges (RIT Student) - put purchase through - Tuesday 10/26/21