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APM 2, working well on VMware Fusion on Mac

Posted by Mark Harrison on March 27, 2011 at 6:00pm

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Starting an APM build from scratch, everything seems to be working fine on a Mac running VMware.  Some notes here:

 

http://eastbay-rc.blogspot.com/2011/03/ardupilot-mega-with-ardupirate-ng.html

http://eastbay-rc.blogspot.com/2011/03/hooray-ardupilot-mega-20-beta-works.html

http://eastbay-rc.blogspot.com/2011/03/hooray-ardupilot-mega-hooked-up-via.html

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  • Moderator
    Mark Harrison March 28, 2011 at 10:36am
    @Mark Colwell, I think XP will work just fine.  There seems to be no problem at all with attaching the USB to the windows session.  The only problem I had initially was that I didn't have automatic driver install turned on, so I ended up with a device that was looking for the driver disk.  Fortunately I had taken a snapshot prior to trying to install (the WONDERFUL feature of vmware!!), so it was easy to back out to that snapshot, turn on updates, and try again.
  • Moderator
    Mark Harrison March 28, 2011 at 10:33am

    @IS, Thanks! I was relieved not to have to drag out the old windows laptop and try to get it updated,etc.

    The TGY 9X had the throttle potentiometer in a bad way... it looked like the pot itself was cracked.  I was hoping it was the pot board that was just loose, or badly aligned, which might not have been too bad to fix.  I'll know this week how difficult/expensive it is to return.  But I was happy with how easy (about 15 minutes of work) it was to swap a mode 1 to a mode 2.

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    Mark Colwell March 28, 2011 at 8:58am
    Thanks, Good tips,  I will try this, but will it work with XP-Pro?  ...
  • I.S. March 28, 2011 at 3:11am

    Well done!

    oftopic: on your last post you say your TGY 9X busted. What happened?

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