I have been working on a Pypilot for Dummies document. It's work in progress and not ratified by anyone yet, so there is a risk I might miseducate you on some points. My intention is to share it somewhere here if that appears to be appropriate, and this thread is the first test. Rather than answering some questions and people needing to search this forum to get answers to the same questions, it seems handy to bundle them all in this somewhat popularized, low-entry format. I'm taking liberty to simplify some matters in the beginning of the text, because all exceptions to a simplified narrative would make the text too hard to digest at first reading.
What I was planning to do, and haven't done yet, is extend this text with a step-by-step approach to getting acquainted with pypilot. This would start with an openplotter with no imu, i would show what the error messages would be like, then I'd add the IMU, play with it, then add an arduino with no motor controller, show what you would see and why, etc. At some point there would also be some reference sections describing all screen's widgets, gains, etc.
So herewith attached the version 0.1. I'm pretty much open to additional questions in this thread, and will answer the questions inside next versions of the document. Eventually, this could be a wiki page or something.
What I was planning to do, and haven't done yet, is extend this text with a step-by-step approach to getting acquainted with pypilot. This would start with an openplotter with no imu, i would show what the error messages would be like, then I'd add the IMU, play with it, then add an arduino with no motor controller, show what you would see and why, etc. At some point there would also be some reference sections describing all screen's widgets, gains, etc.
So herewith attached the version 0.1. I'm pretty much open to additional questions in this thread, and will answer the questions inside next versions of the document. Eventually, this could be a wiki page or something.