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Dragonfruit Team Meeting - November, 2016
Attended: Keane, Kevin, Tyler
Updates
- Soldered more parts onto PCB #5, version 2
- Schematic previously followed found to be for version 1
- Version 2 schematic and eagle files found, soldering will continue
- Parts on each version are relatively the same, therefore no major changes need to be made
- Found a fully soldered version 2 Dragon Fruit PCB on solder bench, labeled as #3
- Previously, board #4 was being used to program and deploy, but failed proved to be faulty and stopped transmitting after being handled
- Board #3 fully programmed without any problems
- Board #3 continues to transmit even after being completely disconnected, then reconnected (board #4 would need to be reprogrammed if this was done)
- Board #3 deemed as deployable by firmware
- XBee, Sensors, and Housing ready for deployment
- Waiting for key to get to roof
Problems
- Solved many problems this week
- Board #4 still buggy and faulty
- Resolved problem of having the wrong schematic version for the PCB design
Goals for this week
- Deploy board as soon as we have access to roof (before CDR)
- Start creating CDR presentation
- complete by Wednesday November 9th
- Continue soldering on board #5
- Draft a new PCB with Real Time Clock and GPS
- Look for GPS that can idle
- to solve space issue consider another tier of parts
- consider creating another tier on sensor board
- same connections to MCP through SDA and SCL