Mar8

• Confirmed Telemetry working with MultiSerialMega firmware found on telemetry page of diydrones.com
• Loaded Arduplane HIL v2.28 from APM Mission Planner
• Currently can control Rudder, Aileron, and elevator
• Had to go to Settings->Joystick, Keys & Equipment to make sure throttle was calibrated properly
• Also when doing Settings->Data Input & Output, make sure that the only check boxes checked are the ones described on the diydrones website
• Still working on autopilot taking over, currently just crashes when in autopilot mode

Mar7

• Tried to get the Flight Gear Simulator to work, not enough support for it by diydrones
• Had trouble uploading the HIL Simulator APM to the board (green plane in display), not showing up in my APM planner sofwtware
• watched youtube videos of the APM Planner working side by side with the X Plane simulator, seems to be the best simulator to use.  Demo version is free.  Users have gotten it to work with Demo version.
• Notebook has basic layout of simulator
• Had problem with most recent version of "relaxpatch" for arduino, problem fixed with version before that.
• Simulation Basic Layout

• Autopilot Basic Hookups
• Out 1 - Aileron/Rudder or Elevon Servo
• Out 2 - Elevator or Elevon Servo
• Out 3 - Aircraft ESC
• Out 4 - Rudder Servo
• In 1 - Roll/Aileron (RC Receiver)
• In 2 - Pitch/Elevator  (RC Receiver)
• In 3 - Throttle  (RC Receiver)
• In 4 - Yaw/Rudder  (RC Receiver)
• In 8 - Autopilot Control  (RC Receiver)
• (GPS, airspeed, and telemetry already connected to ports)

Mar1

Soldered together telemetry units (picked up 2/29)
plugged in ground station unit, recognized on COM4
could not connect initially
Downloaded X-CTU (xBee program to reprogram them)
Have to set baud rate on units to 57608
Could not do this because of soldering error
Broke unit that is in aircraft, have to get new part

Feb20

Researched creating flight plans for the autopilot
Still waiting on telemetry, should be in soon
Looked into controlling the camera servos with the autopilot, found that they cannot be controlled on the fly
Have to create a separate system to control camera servos

Feb13

Ran the interface for the autopilot again to double check still working
Talked with Eric about controlling the servos and camera using an Arduino Mini board
Looked into enclosure for autopilot board, one exists on store.diydrones.com

Feb9

Installed the airspeed sensor
Connected the autopilot to Ardupilot Mega Planner and tested orientation and airspeed detection - successful
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNS1Pd4LLQM

Feb2

• Assembled autopilot 
• followed steps from diydrones.com
• Installed drivers so APM is recognized by computer, recognized on COM3
• Downloaded Mission Planner 1.1.30
• Ran APM Mission Planner, selected plane firmware
• Uploaded new firmware
• Need telemetry equipment to keep going, est ship date is February 29th
• Need male header connectors to put airspeed sensor on