May 5th, 2023
Celine
- Explored idea of using camera to look into the pool
- Position of emergency stop
- Two monitors, fold out
- Khadas decoding engine
- Controller storage location
Max
- No IC buck converter design
- Explained how buck converter worked
- http://webench.ti.com/power-designer/ (opens in a new tab)
- Explored idea of adding more features to buck converter
Byran
- CI/CD with Git/GitHub/KiCAD/mdBook
- By the way, the command to live preview (test locally) is:
mdbook serve --open
- By the way, the command to live preview (test locally) is:
- Commit standards
- How to use Git and GitHub
- Writing Markdown
Connectors
- Carrier board connectors
- Molex slimstack
- Molex mini-fit
- Have multiple positions in connector dedicated to power and gnd
- ESCs slot into DIMM style slots
Sensors/ICs
- Embedded ethernet switch
- Multiple PCA9685 ICs
- BME680
- BNO055 (or newer) or BMI088
- Magnetometer (compass)
- Depth sensor
IP Camera
- Allwinner S3 or other alternatives in creating an IP camera
MCU Design
- SWD (serial wire debug)
- Reverse engineering using inference
- Studied RPi Pico
ESCs - for Chaney
- Hardware FOC with TI MCF8316A IC
- Example breakout board (opens in a new tab)
- Evaluation Board (opens in a new tab)
- Schematic/PCB files available (they were made in Altium Designer but can be converted by KiCAD (just do Files -> Import -> Non-KiCAD Project))