1. CWNC FRC Sessions Team 5740 10/26/2016
Contact:
David Pacella

2. Agenda Engineering Team Formation and Roles Next Meeting Events Misc
Mechanical
Systems
Electrical
Next Meeting
Logistics
Marketing
Documentation
Communication
Events
Pittsburgh and Cleveland
Misc
Andy Mark

3. Team Formation Leadership Team Team Captain Treasurer
Matt Esser (Systems Engineering)
Jake Ball (Software Engineering)
Colton Eisenreich (Electrical Engineering)
Zak Diethorn (Mechanical Engineering)
Team Captain
Let’s pick a captain!
Treasurer
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Team Communications
Media, Marketing and Events Coordinator
Danielle Millich + ???
Student Coordinator
FIRST Coordinator
Subteam Coordinator
This is renamed “Systems Engineer”

4. Roles: Systems Engineer
Responsible for making sure the overall design meets the system requirements.
What are requirements?
What are specifications?
Simply: requirements are what your program should do
Specifications: how you plan to do it including the finished good’s “data sheet”
Requirements represent the application from the perspective of the user (aka customer) as a whole
Specification represents the application from the perspective of the technical team.
Specifications and requirements roughly communicate the same information, but to two completely different audiences

5. Roles: “Sys E” Systems Engineer
Responsible for making sure the overall design meets the system requirements.
Responsible for ensuring the size, weight, power, safety and other critical design features meet the requirements.
Mechanical: ensuring that the volume space claim of our solution is within the rules
Electrical: ensuring that the electronics function safely (fuses, etc)
Software: coordinating the understanding of the interplay between software and electrical.
Overall, ensuring that the mechanical, electrical, software, quality teams are working to a common design solution

6. Roles: “Mech E” Mechanical Engineering Team
Responsible for making sure the mechanical engineering achieves the necessary form, fit, and function to meet the overall system level requirements
Will work with a CAD package (Solidworks or Inventor)
Will work the “Pencil CAD” early and often!
Sketch, erase, sketch, erase, etc
Will be responsible for generating usable output files (DXF’s) that can be used
Will ensure the design analysis sufficient to meet all the use cases

7. Roles: “Spark E” Electrical Engineering Team
Responsible for making sure the electrical engineering achieves the necessary form, fit, and function to meet the overall system level requirements
Will work with a CAD package (Altium)
Will work with a simulation application (LT Spice)
Will work the “Pencil and Paper” early and often!
Fresh paper and sharp pencils are often the birth of many a good circuit topology
Will ensure the design analysis sufficient to meet all the use cases and that all electronics are thoroughly tested
Responsible for designing the functional tests

8. Roles: “Soft E” Software Engineering Team
Responsible for making sure the software engineering achieves the necessary functionality to meet the overall system level requirements
Will work with a software design package (LabView)
Will work with secondary hardware and development environments, such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi to develop extensions to the base RoboRIO (OPTIONAL)
Will work the “Psuedo Code” early and often!
You must develop the logical flow of the program from a high level before you begin coding. The pseudo code is your translator of system requirements to design, which yields the SPEC.
Will ensure the software verification and testing sufficient to meet all the use cases
Must think about how you can try to BREAK things, and design in limits and features to safely handle out of bounds conditions

9. Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Training
Mechanical Engineering
Tools

10. Engineering Training

11. Engineering Training

12. Mechanical Engineering Tools
Solid Works
Here are steps for downloading our full suite of SOLIDWORKS software.  This software is for the team’s personal computers and not for school computers.
SOLIDWORKS Download :
SEK-ID = XSEK12
Choose version
CAD/Electrical serial number :  CVWHHPG4
Composer serial number :  PDMWZMD7
Here are the number of activations on each serial number:    20
If you do not activate the license, you will only receive a 30-day license.  Please give this serial number out to team members only.  This serial number will expire July 31, 2018.
If for any reason you have a problem with the software installation, please send an with screen shots of the error to 

13. Mechanical Engineering Tools
Solid Works, continued
To learn more about SolidWorks Electrical, go here:
To learn more about SolidWorks Composer, go here:
Additional Helpful Tutorials:

14. Electrical Engineering
Engineering Training
Electrical Engineering
Tools

15. Training Electrical Simulation
Schematic Capture: We will be using Altium
Schematics can be generated for wiring diagrams
Schematics can be generated to eventually design custom PCB’s
There are TONs of YouTube videos on Altium walkthroughs
Simulation
Linear Technology’s famous LTSpice
This is a powerful, FREE electronic simulation tool to model and understand circuits.
Simple: resistor and capacitor timing circuits
Complex: DC-DC converters, audio amplifiers, transistors, op-amps
Other FREE simulators: Texas Instruments “TINA”

16. Electrical Engineering Tools
Altium License Information
License: SN
Activation Code: NXJ7-9VRG
Customer Number:
License: Altium Designer
Type: Standalone
Usage: Student
User Count: 1
Account: FRC #5740
Contact: David Pacella
Start Date: 9/30/2016
End Date: 9/30/2017

17. Electrical Engineering Tools

18. Engineering Resources Summary
Mechanical
CAD Modelling Tools
Solidworks: We qualify for 20 seats of Solidworks
Auto Desk Inventor
Electrical
Altium will be used for schematic capture, wiring diagrams, and PCB layout
LTSpice will be used for circuit simulation
Software
Lab View
Computer with LabView: connect to last years controller for continued development and practice with PID control using last years motors and encoders
Assembly
Practice crimping with wires, various screw terminals, and crimp tools
Tools and assembly area: clear labeling and reduced clutter

19. Events
FRC Events

20. Regional Event Pittsburgh Regional Cincinnati Regional Week 3
Wednesday, March 15, :00am to Sunday, March 19, :59pm
Cincinnati Regional

21. Misc
Miscellaneous

22. Tools and Such
Andy Mark
Purchased a bunch of things on sale