Basic Quadcopter Tutorial - Chapter 7 - Firmware Video Lecture | Drones for Beginners: How to make Arduino Drones - Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)

so we're ready to go fly right well
there's one more thing you need to do
you need to make sure that the firmware
is updated to the latest version so to
do that we're going to go to the utter
fly website and download the latest
update client and setup client you're
going to start that software and you
should see something like this and then
I'm going to connect my USB cable to the
hoverfly Pro and you're going to hear
some beeping and you're going to see
some LEDs now in the software go ahead
and start I'm going to hit next agree to
the license agreement and some of this
may change as we change the software you
want to go ahead and select what kind of
board you have you should see a picture
of it then you're going to hit next then
you select what mode you want to operate
in now we've just built a plus mode quad
so we're going to choose plus mode shows
you figure that's to help remind you of
the configuration and also the
directions of the propellers hit next
we're now connected to the hoverfly pro
board if you don't have the driver you
may need to download the driver and
install it that's just the USB driver
hit next and here this is crucial you
want to select the software version now
depending on when this when the video
was made and when you're watching the
video you're going to see different
numbers here you want to always want to
take the highest number the latest
version of the firmware so we're going
to take this one and now that we're
connected to the hoverfly pro we need to
do a a couple things we want to make
sure that our USB connect USB cable is
connected and the software is good to go
and hit flash now it reminds you that
there's two files to flash and
the two files correspond to the two
microprocessors that we have on the
board so you have to move the USB switch
to the position one now depending on
which version of the board you have you
may have one switch or two switches it's
right here on the board right next here
is the USB connector here's the switch
now towards the lie the white line in
the wording of font that's position one
and the other position is positioned too
if you have one switch or you have two
switches it doesn't matter move both
switches if you have two and just the
single switch if you have just one
towards position one towards the front
of the board now we can hit okay it's
flashing right now it's loading the RAM
you will then verify that the program
was installed and that microprocessor
correctly if you have the switch in the
incorrect position the program is not
going to know that you need to manually
make sure that you have the switch move
to the right position so now it says
move the USB switch to position two
we're going to move our DSP are a little
dip switch here and hit okay
and now it's verified and we have
success so what we've just done is made
sure that our board is in the correct
configuration plus configuration and
we've made sure it has the latest
firmware we periodically update the
firmware and you're going to want to
make sure that you always have the
latest so now the second thing that you
can do is use the you just open it up
the setup utility and the setup utility
will connect to the board and allow you
to test some of the functionality make
sure the USB is in position one make
sure that the LED is blinking purple and
now if I move the craft around a little
bit I'm going to see those gyro values
move and I can see the accelerometers
move a little bit it's a little hard to
move it in this video now I have my
radio on and I want to start doing my
setup and I'll explain that in a little
more detail in a minute but right now I
want to show you what happens when we
use the setup client just look at the
values on the screen I'm moving the
sticks on the transmitter and I know all
the ESC is very loud but I'm moving the
sticks and I can see the values moving
on my setup client I can also flick some
of my switches which have already set up
and see that more and this is Auto
leveling enabled is coming on and off