Developer Guide

A great resource for in-depth information.

By the time you land on this page, you probably want to enhance the Paparazzi project, that is really good for your karma and really appreciated. You are welcomed to enhance and extend this documentation.

• Contributing
  how to contribute
• Continuous Integration builds
  Info on the CI server
• Communications
  how telemetry and datalink is done
• Communications (Proposed New system)
  how telemetry and datalink is done
• Server-GCS communications
  how the Server and the Ground Control Station interact with each other
• Values
  a short walk through the system
• USB Download
  how the Paparazzi USB bootloader works
• Upload Bootloader
  How to upload the Bootloader to a LPC2148 processor based AP board like the TWOG
• Upload the luftboot bootloader
  How to upload the Bootloader to a STM32 processor based AP board like the LISA
• JTAG-Debug
  using JTAG to directly debug on the board
• Design Overview
  Attempt at a longer walk through the airborne code architerture
• Firmware Architecture
  Attempt at brief overview of the firmware architecture with modules and subsystems
• USB-Serial
  using the USB instead of the UART for telemetry
• Toolchain
  Install Paparazzi ARM toolchain and IVY from scratch
• Code Editing
  How to setup an IDE for OCAML and C and C++
• Learning to Program
  Improve your Paparazzi code in OCAML,C,C++ and Python
• Paparazzi Math Library
  The custom paparazzi math library (C) and how to use it in external programs
• Settings
  Settings is the generic mechanism that allows to set and get the value of any variable of the embedded code.

• ControlTheory
• Reference/bootloader
• Altitude_definitions
• Altitude and Height
  Altitude and Height demystified
• Abi
• DevGuide/StateInterface