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== Introduction and Overview
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Welcome to the Altus Metrum community! Our circuits and software reflect
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our passion for both hobby rocketry and Free Software. We hope their
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capabilities and performance will delight you in every way, but by
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releasing all of our hardware and software designs under open licenses,
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we also hope to empower you to take as active a role in our collective
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future as you wish!
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Thank you for your interest in motor testing products from Altus Metrum.
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Our first such product is EasyMotor, an in-flight motor data collection
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board for hobby rockets. EasyMotor is a small circuit board that is meant
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to log motor chamber pressure and rocket acceleration during flight. With
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this data it's possible to determine whether a research motor is performing
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as expected. With additional information about masses and airframe drag,
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it is even possible to closely estimate complete motor performance.
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With EasyMotor, the dilemma of “do I burn this on a test stand to learn more
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about how it actually works, or do I go fly it” is no more! You can fly your
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motor and get real performance data about it too!
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Because documentation is just as prone as software to contain “bugs”, and
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can always be improved… If you have questions that aren't answered in this
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manual, or just need a little help figuring things out, we strongly suggest
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joining the Altus Metrum user email list, which you can do by visiting
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https://lists.gag.com/mailman3.
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