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Programming ArduPilotMega without MissionPlanner?

Posted by Mike Sousa on June 15, 2013 at 6:24pm

Hi

Due to some issues with Ubuntu and the GPU on my system (see ubuntuforum discussion: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2153027), I am not able to run MissionPlanner. I'd rather not use a VM with windows. Would there be a way to program ArduPilotMega without using MissionPlanner?

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  • Søren Kuula June 19, 2013 at 5:36am
    Then you need the arduino version for ardupilot available at github.com/diydrones and the ardupilot sources, same place. With that you can build and program from arduino (theoretically should work) or using make/cmake from a shell (definitely works).
    Actually you can also just install "avrdude" in ubuntu, get the hex files (should also be on github somewhere, M P downloads them but I am not quite sure where from) and use avrdude to upload the hex to the apm. The bootloader emulates an "stk500v2" programmer. It should not be hard to find out the right avrdude command, something like
    avrdude -pm2560 -cstk500v2 -P/dev/ttyblahblah -U:flash:w:/path/to/hex/file
    Regards Soren
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