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5.2 KiB
What was the state 1 year ago?
What major projects have I been doing?
1. Indi Controller
2. Table Delivery
3. Navigation Stack
- onesec3d file format
- fruxel grid implementation
- planner server
- controller server
- behavior server
4. Electronics Design and Review
- propulsion harness
- wiring harness
- pdb iteration
- cm4-carrierboard iteration
- parachute system
- cameras and large order
5. PX4 and ROS2 related work
- GNSS including RTK
- Setup VPN
- setup time synchronization between both cm4s
- TF2 system, which handles all coordinate transforms in ROS2
- build system --> exact ros2 version on every install.
- debugging vulkan installs and why cpu usage was high. Also segmentation faults debugging
- ros2 logging node
- ark flow integration
- setup proper gazebo simulation (must be further improved)
5. ESC
- 10S esc
- VESC analysis
7. Mechanical Work
- CNC
- A lot of drone repairs
- A lot of propulsion system builds
- wrong dampers --> unstable propulsion system
8. Testing
- I did a lot of flight tests in january / february
- dead flight controllers
- do testbench tests for floris
Questions to myself
- How do you see the past year? What are the main achievements? and what are the main improvements?
- yourself with respect to the company?
- What do you think were your strengths and weaknesses over the past year?
- Was not very efficient
- a lot of multitasking
- did a good job managing vidit, I'm also enjoying it
- did not a good job of documenting process and following a strict set of rules to properly write down learned knowledge
- What do you like about the job? Anything you disliked?
- I like working the project itself, because it is a complex product that has the capability to change the world.
- I like the multidisciplinar challenge
- I dislike working with Floris
- I dislike the way we work as a team
- I dislike the size of the team
- I disklike the way the company is organized and handles the workflows.
- What do you think should be improved?
- clear communication from the company to where we're headed.
- a clear plan that doesn't change every 4 weeks
- What would you like to see from the company's side?
- Opening up to investors for faster growth, not repeating mistakes
Vidit
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new office space
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help ayush with dataset recordings
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electronics architecture
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lte driver
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ground vehicle side project.
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Boards
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parachute board (mechanical CAD as well as test setup)
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LED boards testing and iterating with ayush
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cm4 carrier board
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wiring harness (2 design cycles)
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propulsion harness
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PDB v2 (BMS design)
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anglesensor board
Before we start is there anything you wanted to share with me? No.
Questions
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How do you see the past year? What are the main achievements? and what are the main improvements?
- major decisions. finalized parachutes, leds, carrier, pdb --> positive!
- elec. architecture --> good.
- not great: a lot of changes, some work got cancelled --> 10s but for nothing
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yourself and your work with respect to company
- able to handle the changes that are happening.
- new things like bms, leds, etc (quick learner)
- Improvements
- spelling
- documentation
- get more efficient and more things that need to get done (not always in his hands)
- multiple projects at the same time makes hard
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What do you think were your strengths and weaknesses over the past year?
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What do you like about the job? Anything you disliked?
- product (we are making something futuristic --> awesome!)
- exciting to see issues that come up in the field (launch) --> things that we did not think about during design.
- avionics.
- Floris, Claudio (TEAM) --> smart, interesting team. no company politics, not toxic, people are listening, open minded
- Job profile:
- you want to contribute in software. (production development, interested in adding software)
- functional programming for embedded (low power micro controllers) (RAM, ROM) in C ()
- 3D-Design (a lot of experience --> mold making to avoid scenes) BMF (plastic molding)
- you want to contribute in software. (production development, interested in adding software)
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What do you think should be improved?
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What would you like to see from my side / the company's side?
- engaging him im more different things (software) --> for his career
- he'd like to have realigning everyone and letting know about where we're going and
- he's hazy about how far we have gone --> missing vision. Whats our roadmap
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Feedback Claudio
- pcb works first time because I make good review. catch mistakes
- communicating what needs to be done.
- teaching critical thinking.
- parallel documentation? eliminate. vidit can choose
What about me?
- Anything you want to share with me about me or the company? positive feedback? critics?
Feedback
Good Points
- you do a good job with documenting on confluence
- Most of the pcbs work the first time we order them, congratulations!
Possible Improvements
- Often when I did reviews, the files are quite messy (old comments not updated, wrong labels, wrong arrow directions)
- if you do experiments make sure to properly write down everything that is needed to reproduce the experiment without any prior knowledge
Questions by Vidit
What is the plan? The roadmap to the first delivery?
- will we keep it remote?
- will there be work for him after the hardware is done?