=====Dragonfruit Team Meeting - January 17th, 2017===== Attended: Kevin, Gordon, Tyler ==== Updates ==== * Strangely, board 3 from last year works and transmits perfectly fine * possibly b/c it has not been powered on in a while * This board was showing major transmission issues last year * ==Try putting screws into through holes== * Dylan wrote an arduino code to measure XBee voltage (watch for ghost voltage) * Currently doing a life time test of board * will move on to doing life time tests while housed and with solar panel ==== Problems ==== * The board works fine, and we didn't do anything ==== Goals ==== * Test XBee transmission when in contact with metal and without * Reprint housing bottom and Solar Panel holders (put holes in the screw places) * Use diode to avoid power from XBee * Find an appropriate diode * Find out where MCU could be powering the XBee from * Program Dragonfruit board 5 * Measure for shorts * Oscilloscope * Talk to Ohta about possible plane tunneling issues * Figure out if repeated use damages/degrades the performance of the board * Test board after replacing Charging Chip * Find surface mount charging chip part (redesign board to use this part, may solve shorting issues) * Finalize Eagle schematics of GPS and RTC