The electron has moved to "Flightgear"

Ok so its been a while and I thought I would post my current work on Flight Gear flight simulator.

I have been madly trying to get some better scenery generated around my home area of Newcastle,Australia. So currently I am using topo shape files from Geoscience Australia to produce maps along with OpenStreetMap Australia

This has proven to be very difficult as the scenery generation tools are failing around YSSY. So my next plan is to build using the road data from the shape files. This will unfortunately drop my wonderful dual highway system :(

So if you would like a copy of the Flightgear scenery then try here Aus-SE_Scenery.tar.bz2

Command Line Programming The Arduino

So more on the Buildbot and command line compiles of the arduino.

After using some code and instructions found here I found that I could compile code (only if the library had been compiled first) however I was unable to upload it to my board.

After lots of looking around for a solution I work out that if I write a wrapper for the arduino's avrdude I could get the correct param's for the upload.

Turns out that the Make file was set for 19200 but the chip wants 57600.

So now to test out the latest version of the Arduino.mk file to see if it builds the library correctly.

UPDATE: once setup Arduino-mk-0.5 works apart from upload which needs the baud rate changed to 57600 for the ATMega328

Buildbot on Arduino

Well after much trialling I can now report that I can continuously compile my arduino code with buildbot.

The plan is now to use eclipse as programming tool and compile projects by simply committing back to SVN.

Still have to get the auto program side working, but I am not far off