The big reason I'm working with the engineers at OU is that I hope they can set up one of these new, cheap little micro computers to run the system. This would (theoretically at least ) offer the opportunity to quickly and easily change parameters. These computers (they'll probably want to use an Arduino) can use a standard USB memory stick to hold the software that runs them. Hopefully this will mean that to change a setup on a machine all I'll need to do is swap out the die and the memory stick and be up and running on a different bullet.
We'll see how it all works out.
By the way Hatch, is it all right if I give the kids at OU your contact info? There is supposed to be 5 of them on the team. I'm sure that if they could talk to you it would make their job easier. After all, there is no substitute for experience and you have plenty of that.