12-May-2021

Attendees

  1. @Jackson Paddock

  2. @David Burnett

  3. @Kristofer PISTER

  4. @Said Alvarado-Marin

  5. @Martina Balbi

  6. @Fil Maksimovic

Minutes

  • @David Burnett

    • @Austin Patel has finals but reports both revised McCoy and Spock boards are back. One McCoy has been wirebonded and SMT assembled, to be tested later this week.

    • Goal to contribute to ADC & power on next SCuM tapeout in August

  • @Jackson Paddock

    • Nearly finished with thesis, soliciting feedback

    • Successfully taped out BLE & RISC-V IC as part of EE290c

  • @Said Alvarado-Marin

    • Laser cutting more robots and adding magnetic assembly

  • @Martina Balbi

    • Learning more about BLE for the dotbot using the nRF52840-DK

  • @Fil Maksimovic

    • Lighthouse 2D is working, needs some calibration, works with the nRF w/ SPI trick. Sends result wirelessly to another nRF to be plotted in Matlab

    • Got a proposal funded! FPGA + ADI software-defined radio running on battery power.

  • @Kristofer PISTER

    • Discussed difficulty of adding Lydia's new optical receiver to facilitate better lighthouse receive. Optical receiver is yet to be tested.