On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:18:41 +0200, David wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Greetings, > > I'm new at the mail-list and at Flight Gear. > > I introduce myself: > > I got the degree on Electronic Engineering a month ago. My Thesis was > focused in the design and building of a VTOL robot. It had to be > controlled by microcontroller, and remotelly by a PC. The robot, is a > lightweight 4-rotored aircraft. The microcontroller controls the 4 ..hummm. Thesis url? > motors, and handles the communications with the PC through > macroinstructions and a protocol I designed (for what I'm proud). The > PC runs a Visual Basic program that monitors and logs the motors and > microcontroller status, and sends orders from keyboard, mouse or > joystick. > > The presentation took place one month ago. I got a nice mark (10 out > of 10 :-D ). > > Although the thesis is written and ended, I don't have the feeling I'm > to forget it and go to another thing. It never was job, it's a hobby. > > I'd like to continue with it, but I'd like to go beyond my former > Thesis. The communications were wired and slow, the robot badly flies, > > and I didn't implement sensors. > > I'd like to use a helicopter, sensors, wireless communications, a > visual interface, a autopilot microcontroller-based program, and a > speedy PC program to log and compute and control. > > Summarizing: I'd like to learn C++ and OpenGL, and I need a simulator > to run all the tests. And gosh! Flight Gear is an Open Source Flight > Simulator written in C++ and OpenGL! ....ahem; FlightGear, no space. ;-) > I'd like to learn how to use Flight Gear, to adapt Flight Gear to my > needs, and be a part of the community. > > Till now, I used WinXP and Visual Basic, but I'd like to start the > project using only free software. I've downloaded Dev C++, Flight > Gear, Mandrake and Gentoo... ..nonono, you want Debian Linux. Mandrake is good for newbies who works in an office where the other droids use WintendoXP, and Gentoo is a wannabe something I don't remember and both has a few IDE's and Debian has them all, it has 11 different hardware platforms for linux plus Hurd and FreeBSD for i386. ..and you will wanna listen to David M (Magginson) on setting up Emacs; if it can cook coffee, it can fly your chopper robots. ;-) http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/ http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/programming.html http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Emacs-Beginner-HOWTO.html ..debian installer: http://oss-us.sns.ro/Hilux.html http://www.debian.org/ http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html I use ClusterKnoppix, Quantian and DamnSmallLinux myself but you will wanna stick closer to "stock" Debian, Hilux gives you an updated Woody. ..and Debian is a nobrainer on maintenance, it just works, Woody is for people who runs merciless 24/7/365.25etc services. If you wanna try bleading edge Sid, simply prepend "un" to "stable" in the lines starting " deb " in /etc/apt/sources.list and run " apt-get update ;apt-get dist-upgrade ", that'll hop you up from 8,700 with Woody to 13,000 different software packages. > What IDE do you suggest me? > What O.S.? > Where do I start with OpenGL and C++ and FlightGear? ..start with the above links, and as you hear and learn more, you will form your own opinion on the "where do I start with OpenGL and C++ and FlightGear?". > What manual would you suggest? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
