One of the priorities of the APM team is to continue to find new ways to make it easier to use. The Mission Planner is a big part of that, with it's one-click firmware loading, but author Michael Oborne has now done it again with a great installation utility (64-bit Windows here, 32-bit here) that not only installs the Mission Planner, but also detects which APM you have and installs the right driver for it. That's like five manual steps eliminated!
Great work, Michael!
(As always, it will also check for updates at startup and download the latest version)
Comment by Veikko Vierola on April 7, 2012 at 6:23am It very nice to see that some people have talent and will to create such fine software. Thank you.
Comment by kolin on April 7, 2012 at 3:17pm For me, I hope there will always be classic no install zip version as APM MP (and majority of software) don't actually need installation. I like APM MP portable
Comment by Dave on April 7, 2012 at 9:29pm Dave: The MP works fine under Base Camp or Parallels.
Comment by Dave on April 7, 2012 at 9:31pm the mission planner run well enough to use under ubuntu. Not sure for mac though
Comment by Tim - Arduino for Visual Studio on April 8, 2012 at 7:26am I am always hugely impressed by the speed and diversity of Michaels work. It is an enourmous task to research and implement so many different technologies whilst at the same time maintaining structure and simplicty for such a broad range of users and platforms. This work is not just of value to uav, arduino and apm but to all microcontroller communities everywhere!
Comment by Anish on April 8, 2012 at 8:02am wow this cool well done folks
Comment by Crispin on April 8, 2012 at 1:35pm Thanks but :(
Win7 x64, 16Gb ram, crashes when it tries to launch :(
Cheers,
Crispin
Great Michael ! also like the new setup menu. nice work
Win7 x64, 6Gb ram. works great.
Crispin: any error messages when it crashes?
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