Circuit board team meeting minutes for 02/15/2012¶
Power test board¶
- Attempted to get serial output from AVR
- Able to program board via ISP header, but not able to get any output from anything
- Data is coming out of the UART pins on the AVR, but nothing is coming out of the FTDI chip
- Intend to try replacing the FTDI chip with one that I know works to see if it's the chip
- Talked to Nico about the pushbutton controller
- He suspects that the KILL input needs to be toggled back and forth by the AVR on power-on, not just driven high
- He will take a closer look at it after his exam and lab
Scoutfly Eagle file update¶
- Routed part of circuits for charging IC
- Discussion about whether to modify goal of Scoutfly to speed development
- Idea of breaking Scoutfly into smaller pieces and developing those separately
- Abe thinks that this would make physical design of Scout harder without necessarily making development faster
- Consensus was not reached
- Idea of producing a Scoutfly with significantly reduced circuitry as a first edition
- This would reduce complexity while still building toward an ultimate goal of a monolithic board
- Development is definitely moving too slowly
- Intend to consult Kevin for guidance
Attendance¶
- Present: Ben, Julian, Misty, Tom, Abe
- Excused absence:
- Unexcused absence:
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