Downloading and installing APM Planner or Mission Planner
As we have been using ArduPilot as the control board of our drone, we need to use the APM Planner software for configuring our drone. Let's download APM Planner from here: http://firmware.ardupilot.org/, and download AMP Planner 2.0 or Mission Planner:
After successful installation, open the APM Planner or Mission Planner. The interface will look like this:
At the top left, you can see the following six menus:
- Flight data
- Flight plan
- Initial setup
- Config/tuning
- Graphs
- Donate
The option names are self-explanatory. At the top right, you can see a Connect button. Before the Connect button, you can find the MAV ID option, which allows you to select the right port for your ArduPilot connected to your computer by USB or by telemetry. In Windows, you can select Auto mode to find out the perfect port number, if you are not sure which is the COM port number. But on OSX, you need to figure out the perfect port.
For the first time, we need to connect...
