Ok putting it out there...
In order to encourage community members to participate in the Arducopter, Ardupilot, AP Planner project code base ,I think it would be a great idea for a series of live recorded online presentations to be conducted by those actively involved in the code base. I envisage this to be similar to online corporate seminars where the audience can ask questions etc. The idea here is to provide a quick start and less daunting way to enable and engage community members that would like to be involved in code development to further the Arducopter project. The recorded presentations can then be viewed at a later date.
This will be an opportunity for the wider community to see how the 'big boys/girls' cut and roll code, learn the gottchas and peculiarities of the Arduino environment and promote the widening of the number of people engaged in the code base.
Some presentation ideas that come to mind are:
1. Overview of code architecture. What parts do what e.g. global constants, classes, variables, methods/functions timers etc.
2. Devleopment environment requirements. Live demonstration of tool chains and code development, e.g. bug diagnostic and general code development workflows.
3. Use of HIL simulator for development.
What are your thoughts?
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Great idea!
You have one of the best graphics explaining miscellaneous connections (btw, what program was used to make them? would love to see more such wiring diagrams of multiple configurations and addons. I find them most helpful at the beginning of the RC journey) although it would be great to show even more. Show the possibilities of APM, how to get started with development is one of the possible directions of having more users involved in the development of the whole ecosystem.
Great idea, there are probably some really imaginative and well wired up brains out there, if they understood the code to a high standard, then this project would certainly benefit...
The more brainpower put into something the easier things become and everyone develops their knowledge
I am waiting for this ever since i bought my AMP1 and read the forum every day (a few month now).
This idea can develop in a huge jump for a lot of us and also for the whole project.
Until now I see this comunity a littlebit divided. I meen is a too big "distance" between developers/contributors and the rest of us.
Sometimes I wanted to add replies just saying "english please..."
There is a lot of people here at a beginner level in C++ but with good intentions and maybe with some interesting ideas. Unfortunatelly not everithing we want we can... but with a littlebit of help everithing is possible.
I see in this comunity a huge potential but until now only a part of this is exploited for the benefit of all of us.
The first and most important step in my opinion is your idea #1. "Overview of code architecture. What parts do what..."
LET'S DO IT!