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 you karma and well appriciated. You are welcomed to enhance and extend this documentation.

• Contributing
  how to contribute
• Communications
  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 the AP board
• JTAG-Debug
  using JTAG debug for LPC2148
• Debug Lisa
  using GDB to debug software on Lisa boards
• 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