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3 Phase Controller V0.1

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    This is a build log of the first version of a 3 phase motor controller.  This project marks the first time I'm trying my hand at PCB and power electronics design, so beware of bone-headed design choices.  The initial motivation behind this endeavor was simply that I wanted a way to control brushless motors and also wanted to understand how that control was executed.  During my internship with Linear Labs , I worked with several commercial 3 phase controllers that were frustrating to use and lacked very simple features that would have been useful for the testing we were doing.  Also during this period is when I stumbled upon Ben Katz's blog and had my eyes opened to the possibility of developing a controller that could match the performance of bespoke commercial controllers and that I had complete control over to scale and program as I pleased.  So, taking much inspiration from the progression of Ben's own controller's, I started scheming this firs...