Flight Software Toy

Background

This demo uses TCP as the communication protocol. This is really just a demo toy as it provides only ~0.1 ms timing accuracy and is not at all suitable for real Flight Software.

For demonstration purposes, this system employs a soft real-time model using Tokio-based networking, rather than targeting low-level embedded systems or RTOS platforms.

In a real flight software system, I would use a hardware-backed RTOS scheduler—such as PREEMPT-RT, VxWorks, or Zephyr—to guarantee deterministic task scheduling.

Quick Start

• Start the Flight Computer with cargo run. This will install all necessary dependencies automatically per Rust / cargo norms.

• Run ./propulsion_tcp_client.py to open the interactive command interface. Refer to INSTRUCTIONS.md for sample commands.

• Watch the Flight Computer log:

  • Command acknowledgement.
  • Command execution.