The Tao family of flight computers was started with the new #pathtospace and the creation of pursuit. The Tao family will include ASTRo’s, Pursuit’s, and the spaceshot rocket’s flight computers. The name Tao was chosen for a few reasons: Tao translates to path and comes from the philosophy of Taoism. Taoism is also often represented by the yin yang symbol, which is also fitting because eventually the flight computers will feature two main microcontrollers, one for data acquisition and one for control.
Before any flight computers were made, the board depicted below (left-half is CAD, right-half is real) was created to test most of the components we were considering using repeatedly in the Tao family. This included multiple altimeters, IMUs (Inertial Measurement Units), communication-bus switches, and other sensors