Ok, the first version of the source code for TrillSat was released a couple of hours ago under GPL 3.0, and a copy of the source tarball was uploaded to the Files section of this project.  It includes the most important files, the OpenSCAD program that generates the STL files for 3D-printing (and animation), the electrical schematic, the C source files for the two ATtiny 1634 microcontrollers, the Lua source for the Huzzah ESP8266 running NodeMCU, and the Python 2/3 and BASH sources for the Raspberry Pi Zero W.  The README file also details several smaller changes that need to be made to various configuration files.

The tarball doesn't contain the entire project, only the core craft design files, so I didn't include the 100+ pages of technical information which are available on my TrillSat home page at http://greatfractal.com/TrillSat.html, since I wanted to keep the tarball small.  I also left out the STL and G-code files that I used to print the parts, since they consumed several megabytes (and are easy to generate using my OpenSCAD program and Slic3r), and I left out the KiCad source and library files as I only use it for the visual schematic and don't use any of its other features.

The "Three-Tridant Orbital Mechanic" PWM drive system is now working, but it is very crude at this stage.  I created a new "Park" command which drives the Planetary Mass at different acceleration/deceleration values and speeds as it passes the Hall-effect switches, automatically switching between Sign-Magnitude and Lock-Antiphase on-the-fly to re-park the mass at sunrise position during the night (and lifting the entire weight of the craft).  It works in testing on a table, but I have not yet tested this system on the tether (and I will probably need to tweak the values to match different friction/torque requirements).

I had to match the speeds of Sign-Magnitude and Lock-Antiphase to ensure smooth hand-offs, since Lock-Antiphase runs at twice the frequency of Sign-Magnitude, so I sped up Sign-Magnitude to compensate, rather than slow Lock-Antiphase down.  Lock-Antiphase has half the resolution, so slowing it down won't allow a perfect match with Sign-Magnitude during a non-linear acceleration, but Sign-Magnitude can have its resolution cut in half to match, which preserves the congruence.

I also had some spontaneous ATtiny reboots during testing, since I moved my bypass capacitor too far away from the ATtiny after I replaced the last BLDC, and the supply voltage dropped below my brown-out detection threshold of 4.3 volts, so I lowered it to 2.7 volts which helped until I can get around to fixing the problem.

The code is crude at this stage, but hopefully it will give others insight into solutions for several problems that I had to overcome:  how to take control over the UV-5RA flash memory and minimize writes to the flash using 16-byte blocks (something Chirp wasn't designed to do), how to create a crude XMPP server on a memory-constrained ESP8266 running NodeMCU, how to program a PBBS using AX.25 Unix programming techniques instead of the C library, how to craft the APRS message, and how to wrangle a custom radio interface using a Virtual UART and Virtual PTT line.

It also shows the various ways to control the two very different types of motors under PWM (brushed and brushless) using a single microcontroller, maxing out both of its hardware timers and creatively using interrupts.  And of course, there are a lot of different types of IPC, job processing, multiprocessing and concurrency going on with 4 CPUs that interoperate.

It is a fascinating experience for me, and I hope you find some of it useful.