Daniel Schnieder
Third-year Computer Engineering student at The Ohio State University
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Introduction
Hi! I'm Daniel Schnieder, a third-year computer engineering major at The Ohio State University with a passion for embedded systems, computer architecture, and game development. Currently, I'm leading the development of the new telemetry system at Buckeye Solar Racing.
What am I currently working on?
March 25th, 2025: Lately, I've been working on creating a test plan to conduct a range test for our LoRa RYLR998 modules.
A teammate and I did a preliminary test at Carmack to get an idea of the range; at ~400 meters (~0.25mi), the wireless modules were performing adequately with just their stock PCB antennae.
We have been looking into buying the M4 versions of the same modules to attach custom antennae to them, but they are out-of-stock in the US and shipping it from Germany would be really expensive ($35-70+ for shipping alone).
So, we only testing with the stock antennae for the range test; I may buy the alternate versions and some antennae to test during the summer.
Additionally, I worked on collaborating with the Battery and High Voltage leads to understand what metrics we need from the BMS, so I could work on organizing what our CAN frames will look like (and so the other Telemetry members can work on parsing the data for the backend of the website).
Speaking of the website, we have continued development of the backend, including integrating SQL (SQLite3 and SQLAlchemy), parsing data from an MCU's serial monitor, and displaying said data on the frontend.
Now, we are figuring out how to get the website to display graphical data, updating in real-time.
In the near future, I will be working on actually integrating our system, thus far, with our BMS and new motor controller;
I will be learning more about KiCAD to make custom PCBs to ensure a more robust telemetry system.
The pictures below were taken over the past few years. The car shown is our previous solar car, Farasi II.
