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Permalink Reply by Mikil P on July 2, 2009 at 5:56am

Hiya -

Is the source available anywhere? The program doesn't run under Mono which means anyone who doesn't use Windows can't use the latest ardupilot. I'm quite happy to re-write the program in something a bit more platform agnostic.
I can't find the source either on the google code downloads site or in the SVN repo.

Cheers!
Mikil

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Permalink Reply by Brent West on July 3, 2009 at 3:36am

Hi Jordi,
Please forgive me for stepping in, I’m sooo a newbie to where you guys are at. But I do agree that some of the problems we’re experiencing is hardware to this extent.
The male headers that I received with the Ardupilot board are thin round pins. Then I ordered the shield kit, and followed the instructions to match the two boards.
What I found after allot of frustration was that if you take an ohm meter and measure through each header, some of them are not complete.
Looking at many of the pictures, the proper square pins for these female headers where being used. But now we’re using the round pins.
Everyone is going back and checking there code and erasing their memory and wondering if they set the correct PIC or not, but it can be as simple as a connection between these two boards.
Before I found the mismatch between the two boards, I could not upload through the FTDI, using any of four PC’s! But after finding the bad connections, I could upload the program and I can use the utility to set waypoints and read back. (The trick to using the utility process, was to hit the reset button just at the right time, don’t know why, but it work!), “mentioned in another post I read,” ALSO! You need to put in the LAT/ LON for “Home info”, or you can’t get the map to come in right. When it does, that is so cool.

The utility program, why you have to hit the reset button to make it work? I don’t know, but I’ll leave that to you guys to figure out. But I would highly recommend for everyone to check the connections between these two boards, (the header’s).

I’m 57, and what you guy’s are doing for the hobby that I’ve been in since I was a kid, is so neat. Please keep up the good work!

P.S. Anyone live in the Phoenix area?

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Cuervo on July 3, 2009 at 4:18am

To get the utility to work, did you disconnect pin 6 on the FTDI board? Also, at what time are you hitting the reset button? The config utility read/write bar only fills halfway before I get the error message.
I hear you about about advances in the hobby. I'm 48 and this is a long way from that first Tower Hobbies 3 channel radio I bought in the '70's.

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Permalink Reply by JDB on July 8, 2009 at 3:23pm

Hi Everyone,

I recently ordered the Ardupilot board and shield. In anticipation of their arrival, I have been downloading all of the software and source code so I can dive in once the hardware arrives.

I have tried running the ArduPilot config tool but it instantly crashes when I try to run it, before any type of dialog window shows up. I am running XP Home SP3. Do I need any type of runtime library for it? Or do I simply need to have the hardware connected before I run the program? Anyone have this problem?

Thanks,
James

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AdminPermalink Reply by Thomas J Coyle III on July 8, 2009 at 3:31pm

JDB,

Do you have Java installed on your PC?

I am able to run the config tool without any hardware attached and I am running XP Home SP3 too.

Regards,
TCIII

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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Jordi Muñoz on July 8, 2009 at 6:08pm

I'm not sure but i'm using Visual C#, So you will need to upgrade your .NET Framework i guess:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569263.aspx

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Permalink Reply by JDB on July 9, 2009 at 8:29pm

Thanks Thomas and Jordi! I was able to get it working after the .NET framework update.

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