Attended: Brian, Garrett, Kyle, Brianne, Keane, Kevin

• Did greetings and introductions.
• Gave out assignments for the x296 and x196 students to work on.

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• Research Charging Chip, Micro-controller, Board designs, and to look at Sketch-Up.
• Charging Chip: Read data-sheets. Get a firm understanding.
  • Research other charging chips to improve board efficiency and so that it's easier to solder.
  • Current charging chip is limited to 3.3V other charging chips can handle higher voltages.
  • Instead of using voltage regulators and boost converters, use step up and step down (which can be done with one chip.)
  • Check Pololu on their page. Pololu is a QFN and someone needs to learn how to solder it.
• Micro-Controller: Research for other options.
  • Research for a microcontroller with more input and output ports.
  • Current microcontroller is a 328p, use micro controller from same family. This will make it easier for firmware to adapt.
• Board: Expand on the board. (Possibly change the size and design.)
• Sketch Up: Download and play around with it. Get some experience with the software.
• Extra Information: Differences between Dragon Fruit and Cranberry.
  • Dragon Fruit runs on 5V while Cranberry runs on 3.3V.
  • Dragon Fruit runs off of a 16Mhz Clock.
  • Cranberry runs off of a 8Mhz Clock.
  • Look over datasheets to see why this happens.

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Created by kwong on 2016/04/19 06:10.