11/29/2022

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11/29/2022

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Structures

  • Finished R&D tube

  • Found 12 ft of fiberglass tubes 

  • couplers OOS

 

  • find new supplier for 4 FG couplers

  • always use composite bandsaw in machine shop

  • @Alex Durand (RIT Student) get grace filament and begin making a plan on the process

Analysis

  • 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

Avionics

  • 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 

Payload

  • 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

Reaction Wheel

  • 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

Recovery

  • 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 

Other

 

@Alex Speyer (RIT Student) pick dates for meetings over break 

need to do 2nd update for HeroX and pay