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  Guillaume Braibant May 8, 2013 at 1:57am

  Hello Remus,

  I am doing the same work as you. There is no manual about the structure of ArduCopter but the code is very well commented.

  Howerver, the structure of the program is easy to understand and will not take more than one week to be fully understood.

  Start by the Arduino References to learn basics.

  Arducotper code is written in C programming language. I advice you to start by reading the ArduCopter sketchbook and figure out which operations the program perform and at which rate.

  Then, read the files defines.h , config.h , parameters.h and parameters.ino

  They will help you to master all parameters of the ArduCopter program (Parameters are very important if you want to make code improvements compatible with Mission Planner, I advice you to read the AP_Var lib in the AP_Common lib).

  After, it is up to you to follow de lines from ArduCopter.ino to get a better knowledge of some arducopter functionnalities you want to improve.

  Best regards,

  Guillaume Braibant

  PS :

  I apologize for english / spelling mistakes but it is not my native tongue (French) and I do not have much time now to correct my message.
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  Charles lakins May 7, 2013 at 5:56pm

  Might be best for you to start small with the arduino site

  http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage

  if you can grasp that then your on your way
• Remus Avram May 7, 2013 at 5:37pm

  Hi all. Other than reading code line-by-line is there a manual/hierarchy of the ArduCopter code? How about a manual for the ports of the APM 2.5 and how to address them? My goal is to gut down lots of the code and I'd like to get closer to understanding how the whole code works, yet there seems to be very little literature on this.

  I'm also looking for someone who wishes to partner up, I have a lot of academic background and ideas I'd like to apply, share and implement.

  Warm regards,

  Remus 
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  Charles lakins March 30, 2013 at 7:09pm

  I created an APM2.5 & DX6i flight mode settings post in my blog RCG

  it should help anyone setting up the radio and gcs

  http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24580628&postcoun...

  

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  Bradley J Carr March 28, 2013 at 2:20pm

  I will await the arrival.  Until then maybe I can make my mini arcade machine.
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  Copter Richie March 28, 2013 at 12:25pm

  At Bradley and Chris, I really need to cross over to the other side. I also have a PI and been wanting to get a ArduCopter flying. Time to make that leap. Thanks, just the motivation I need.
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  Chris Anderson March 28, 2013 at 12:21pm

  Bradley: We've already got MAVelous running Rasperry Pi, generating a HTML GCS over WiFi. Stay tuned for a product based on this soon. 
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  Bradley J Carr March 28, 2013 at 12:18pm

  I have a Raspberry PI sitting here infront of me and would like to know if you think using this to control the Mission planner and contolling the copter would be good?  I have never done anything with the PI but maybe loading the linux OS, Then I wouldn't have to thave my laptop with me.
• John ku March 26, 2013 at 9:19am

  

  Thanks for the link.

  

  Point taken. I'll do it next time.

  John

   
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  Charles lakins March 26, 2013 at 9:11am

  and heres arducopter help related for gimbals

  http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Camera

  you dont need it to start, but when you are more experienced flying maybe as it just adds more to break learning