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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on October 3, 2010 at 1:08pm

LabVIEW is cross-platform, so we just need someone with a OS-X version to compile it and release an executable. We're doing that with the APM GCS, which is also LabVIEW.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 3, 2010 at 1:38pm

I'm waiting for access to an OSX labview setup. As soon as I have this, I'll try and recompile it.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 14, 2010 at 11:35pm

Hi,

Update: If I'm lucky, I'll be able to recompile the configurator this weekend.

Cheers,
Robert

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Permalink Reply by David spencer on October 14, 2010 at 11:44pm

That sounds like great news! Would be more than happy to give it a spin once you're done…

I'm on 10.6.latest and have 4 different macs to try it on.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 14, 2010 at 11:53pm

Same here, I'm getting tired of having to boot up my virtualization app. I'll need to get the software installed first though, and I'll test it on an MBP, air, imac, macbook. As soon as I have something I'll blogpost it here, and will update this topic - would be happy to have some people test :)

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Permalink Reply by Robert Beatty on October 15, 2010 at 4:56am

I am also excited about this news! Looking forward to testing it. :)

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 15, 2010 at 10:10am

OK. The good news: LabView runs perfectly on my macs.
The bad news: ArduCopterConfigurator contains windows-only requests for retrieval of registry keys (obviously windows-only). I need to get this cleaned up, but don't know anything about LabView yet :)

In short, the OSX version will take a bit longer - at least I need to figure out LabView first !

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Permalink Reply by Richard Gosling on December 3, 2010 at 9:49am

i received my quadcopter today from FahPah (excellent) and have assembled it and after many hours of trying are unable to do anything with it. I have a mac and it seems that i was misinformed when i read that the software was mac friendly. From reading the comments above it would appear that i now have to buy a dos box before i see this bird hover like a dragonfly. Is this correct or have i missed a link somewhere - every mac link i go to says that it is currently unavailable.
Any help would be appreciated
Regards,
Richard

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Permalink Reply by Joel on December 3, 2010 at 9:56am

boot camp? windows runs great on a mac :)

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Permalink Reply by Richard Gosling on December 3, 2010 at 10:04am

Yeh boot camp works well as does parallels which i own - but don't have my old XP disc and don't enjoy forking out hundreds on condoms (virus protection)

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Permalink Reply by Joel on December 3, 2010 at 10:11am

Haha yeah viruses suck. I haven't had any problems though because I'm careful(and i haven't used a virus scanner in a few years ooops... wouldn't suggest that though!). Also there are free options which i hear are decent such as AVG. Cnet.com can point you in the right direction for a free option.

You could always install linux using boot camp? Or paralells? I don't currently own a mac, but i'm assuming that is another option. Either way, just something to hold you off while they working on macosx compatibility.

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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on December 3, 2010 at 10:08am

Richard,

Two things:

1) The next version of the software will also have a Command Line setup process that will work on any platform.
2) Where did you read that the current software was Mac-compatible? We should correct that if it's out there. That said, it's an easy process to make it Mac-compatible: the LabVIEW-based Configurator can run on any platform, but we just need to someone with an OSX version of the LavVIEW dev kit to compile it.

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