ArduCopter MacGCS

Nigel Conliffe April 26, 2011 at 9:04pm

Thank you very much I'm just getting started with this Arducopter stuff, and was considering the possibilities for writing something for my collection of Macs :) Mine would not have been as good as yours though.

Nigel

Leonardo Lisboa March 13, 2011 at 9:04am

Hi Hai,

Thanks for the update. I`ve tested the software and noted that the PID are not being properly updated. They're mixing up some values.

Also the Accelerometer offset (the one that normally shows as 408) somehow was corrupted, getting a value of 15K, so I needed to use the windows configurator to fix them again.

Thanks,

Leonardo

Leonardo Lisboa March 11, 2011 at 5:28pm

Hi Hai, I`ve tested your GCS and its working preety well. Were you able to sort the Acro/Alt/GPS PID write? The latest version I`ve downloaded from your link is not updating those values.

Thanks,

Leonardo

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Hai Tran March 6, 2011 at 7:06pm

Just upload an update, in the zip you will now find the debug and the release binary. I compiled using the Xcode 3.2.6 Beta 3.

See if that addresses the issue. I'm not having any issues running the binary on my Macbook Pro 15" i7, but I have 4 versions of XCode right now, which I need to clean up as there was the current 3.2.5, 3.2.6 beta 3, and 4.0 RC the latest prod version is 3.2.6 GM so with all those versions and their included SDK suspect that might be the issue..

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Hai Tran March 5, 2011 at 6:15pm

Don't know why the latest problem with CPU, but I checked the configuration, the app is being compiled for universal 32/64bit, min OS 10.5.

I've recompiled and uploaded again.

Nicolas ELSIG March 5, 2011 at 3:34pm

not able to open the app :( running 10.6.2 on an intel macBookPro

it says ArduCopter_MacGCS is not supported on this type of mac

too bad ... any idea ?

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Hai Tran March 4, 2011 at 12:47am

Another update uploaded. PID read and write added as well as a larger AH. I haven't tested this yet, as I didn't have my APM with me.

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Hai Tran March 2, 2011 at 4:13am

I've also managed to add to the ArduStation code to support the ArduCopter. Getting basic info like GPS location, pitch, roll, yaw, course, altitude, satellites. I know someone here has modded the ArduStation code to allow editing of PIDs on ArduPilot so I might also be able to use that in the ArduStation for ArduCopter. I'll be releasing the code to ArduStation for ArduCopter soon.

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Hai Tran February 28, 2011 at 12:31am

Build # 3 updated to include Yaw indicator and the roll indicator has been enhanced to indicate 15, 30, 45, 60 angle of bank.

I'm going to work on (GPS) speed and altitude (sonar/BMP/GPS) display, then I'll start working on the PID and transmitter configuration screens.

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Hai Tran February 27, 2011 at 5:39am

Just finished implementing graphic roll and pitch display. That was a big challenge for me as it was the first time I did graphical programming on both iOS and Mac OS.

Big thanks to Kim, who's .Net configurator code gave me some insight on how to do it. It didn't help that i knew nothing about VB and .Net but at least it pointed me in the right direction.

New build uploaded, same URL.

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