Comment by William Premerlani on May 3, 2011 at 4:15am

Hi Curt,

Thanks for sharing, and I think it would be a great idea to post your options.h file.

Best regards,

Bill

Comment by Curt Filipowski on May 3, 2011 at 10:59am

Thanks guys,

I tried loading in the new firmware last night but my compiler is failing on the linking step with the 3.0 firmware.  I'll look more closely into that in the coming days but I did have another very successful flight with the older 2.5 firmware.  I was running a simple square waypoint flight and had nice snappy turns at the corners.  Even went ahead and gave inverted flight a test but will have to change the inverted pitch as its a little to excessive for the funjet, which flies quite well upside down.

 

Last weekend I gave it the trust test out in the country when I flew it to the limits of my vision.  I toggled the autopilot to come home and watched the small speck in the sky slowly make its way back down to me.  There were a few tense moments when I lost sight of the beast to check my timer but the UDB did what it should and after a few seconds of searching I found the plane happily circling 1000 feet overhead.  Far to much fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comment by William Premerlani on May 3, 2011 at 11:49am

Hi Curt,

MatrixPilot 3.0 was built using the latest version of the Microchip compiler (v3.25).

Microchip made some changes that will cause a linker error if you use newer MatrixPilot versions with older versions of the compiler. There are two options for fixing the linker error:

1. If you want to continue to use the older version of the compiler with MatrixPilot 3.0, go into the project build options, under the linker tab, and revert to default linker options. This will turn off the link options that are causing the problem.

or

2. Reinstall the compiler and MPLAB using the latest versions available from Microchip.

Best regards,
Bill

Comment by Curt Filipowski on May 3, 2011 at 11:55am

Ahhhh,

Many thanks Bill!  I will update MPLAB tonight and try again.  Thanks for the tip, I probably would have spent a few hours banging my head against the wall before finding that out.

 

Thanks again!

Curt

 

Comment by Curt Filipowski on May 19, 2011 at 9:03am

Sorry for the lack of updates (and lack of options file), weather has been beautiful here and I've been spending my time flying and working on other projects and not posting.  I spent a little more time working with my gain values and have a fairly stable setup now.  I will include my options.h file this evening.

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