====== Firmware Ideas ======


  * Multiple sampling  (different sensors have different things)
  * Firmware Manual
  * Better code commenting
  * Better function naming schemes
  * Command mode WITHOUT disabling or interfering with normal device operation
  * Power management (sleep modes, etc.), low battery stops
  * ISR based software flow <active>
  * Disabling timers
  * Firmware without the Arduino libraries 
  * Assert statements for runtime debugging
  * Supporting other microcontrollers (initially ATMega family, possibly others after that)
  * Automated verification techniques (using emulation and simulation)
  * Making use of debug LEDs available on cranberry
  * Advanced XBee control
  * Implement XBee cyclic sleep (and look at the problems that come with cyclic sleep as well)
  * Receiving packets through XBee and possibly responding
  * Remote programming
  * Unit tests
  * Static analysis of firmware (code coverage, etc.)
  * Error codes
  * Different firmware designs (what is the best way to implement firmware that covers all of the systems?)
  * Using a more powerful MCU + an RTOS
  * Using WiFi/ethernet to carry signals (IoT)

  * Strobe communication protocol to reduce energy consumption on a mesh network, this would eliminate the need for network synchronization