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Future Post Ideas (Not in Order)

• [ ] Sending UBX configuration commands to a Ublox GPS
  • Checksum calculation
• [ ] Analog voltage divider circuit
• [ ] XBee 3 radio review and range test
• [ ] Designing a Kalman filter for a distance sensor
• [ ] Designing a Kalman filter for a barometric altimeter sensor
• [ ] Adafruit FXOS8700 + FXAS21002C 9-DOF IMU review
• [ ] Adafruit BMP388 pressure/temperature sensor review
• [ ] Red Ryzen Starter PC build review
• [ ] What is PID control?
  • Why it works
  • Tuning controllers
• [ ] PID auto-tuning (via monte carlo and minimization)
• [ ] Introduction to LQR control
• [ ] Deriving a state-space model from nonlinear equations of motion
• [ ] Reading serial streams from Spektrum Satellite recievers (RC receiver)
• [ ] Robustly reading PWM signals with a microcontroller
• [ ] Best practices for reliable embedded/Arduino C++ programming
• [ ] Calibrating a 3-axis magnetometer with MATLAB
• [ ] Linux workstation build review
• [ ] Setting up Syncthing for computer file synchronization
• [ ] Comparison of attitude/orientation parameters (pros/cons)
  • Euler angles
  • Quaternions
  • Rodrigues parameters
  • MRPs
• [ ] Nonlinear equations of motion for a quadcopter/quadrotor
  • Derivation
  • Simulation?
• [ ] Spacecraft coordinate frames
  • Body, ECEF, ECI, etc.