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TrueFuse 2C: How Our Model Rocket Altimeters Fuse Sensors for Accurate AltitudeProgramming & Electronics ramblings

TrueFuse 2C: How Our Model Rocket Altimeters Fuse Sensors for Accurate Altitude

Barometric pressure sensors are superb at rest, but a rocket flight attacks them: airflow over the static port during the burn, ejection charge spikes, transonic effects, even sunlight under the parachute. TrueFuse 2C is the sensor fusion filter behind AltimeterCloud and our…

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Neil Bowen21 Aug 2026
The u-blox SAM-M10Q in flight: settings, seeding and ground planeProgramming & Electronics ramblings

The u-blox SAM-M10Q in flight: settings, seeding and ground plane

A full walkthrough of GNSS on Jupiter: what the ground plane actually needs, which UBX settings matter and which to leave alone, how we build AssistNow-equivalent orbit data from public ephemeris and get it onto the device over LTE-M, and how we inject and seed it. With Arduino…

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Neil Bowen14 Aug 2026
Barometric pressure sensor lag and how to correct itProgramming & Electronics ramblings

Barometric pressure sensor lag and how to correct it

Every logged pressure altitude is out of date by the time you write it down. Our firmware used to measure that lag at launch, until a flight log showed it returning 300 ms where the real answer was 111 ms, and TrueFuse started repairing pressure faults that were never there.…

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Neil Bowen13 Aug 2026