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August 2, 2026
Going open, and letting AI take the Wheel
The Modular Motor Controller is now open source. Notes on the repository, a back-EMF sensing experiment that didn't work as intended, and the milestone reorder that came out of it.
July 20, 2026A second motor changes the story
The auto-tune profiler was built around one bench motor. Handing it a completely different one broke exactly the assumptions worth breaking — and the probe found the first motor had been hiding a trick.
July 13, 2026What's actually on the chip
A breakdown of the MMC firmware at milestone MS6 — feature set, drive modes, and where every kilobyte of flash and RAM actually goes.
July 12, 2026How this started
The origin of the Modular Motor Controller project — asking Claude to build an FOC motor controller from scratch.