Updates

• Mechanical
  • Keel halves are assembled together
  • Old keel holes plugged
  • New keel slot is drilled through fiberglass
  • Watertest with keel next Friday
  • Adjusting stand lasercut pieces to fit hull better
• Electrical
  • PCB almost soldered
  • Start testing PCB functionality
  • All-hands meeting dedicated to electronics integration next week
  • Ultrasonic Anemometer
    • Ordering new transducers because old transducers bad
    • Evaluating timing mechanisms - is microcontroller good enough?
• Firmware
  • Wind vane + tailwing servo control loop functional
  • Next step work on communications/network test
  • Further in the future doing full integration test once most of the electronics are done
• Software
  • New URDF in sim, works pretty good, refining collision meshes for hydrodymanics models
  • Autonomy stack: there are issues? Need to pinpoint
  • Investigating wind models