2024-04-30 Meeting notes

Announcements

Vann

• Thank you for coming to elections!

• Feedback form: forms.office.com/r/X7VLLCkStj

Onboarding

• All the different teams/subteams

  • Speedating?

  • Lecture series

  • Show off physical hardware

  • Digestible onboarding

• Mentorship/lead program of sorts

  • Having team leads

    • Operations

    • Combustion

    • Fluids

    • TVC

    • Vehicle

• Have a list for next meeting, will go through individuals and responsibilities next meeting

To do for next year:

• Establish

  • The structure of that program

  • The leads themselves

• Onboarding

  • Plan for how to approach

  • Mostly leads delegating their work

  • “speed dating”

• Recruitment

  • Who do we want and how do we keep them

  • Text them, be very involved

  • Need posters and other media!

  • Let fewer drown

• Constitution that clarifies voting and other expectations and some brief requirements

Testing Campaign Updates

Vann

• L CO2 is still on the way, Tom predicts this week

  • We need to be ready for that to happen

    • GSE

    • Procedures

    • Equipment

• Ignition system should be working

  • Needs integration into test stand/GSE

GSE

Thomas

• Cameras and networking are working

• Boxes have been swapped!

• Restructure in progress

• Soooooo

• Labjack for sensors

• Raspi for relays using ROS

• Thomas help

  • Nobody knows ROS

  • ROS installed on Pi

  • We need to install the power arc

  • Develop camera holder (cheap 2x4 tripod)

  • Need a case of some kind

Fluid systems

Cesar

• Made a list of outstanding items

Load Cells

Erik

• Recalibrate the second loadcell

Soft Lander

Colden

• Learning PID

Cassie

• Working on fluids and cold flow ops

TVC

Miguel

• Lacking system-level requirements

• Playing w/ ROS for linear actuators along w/ Odrive