Building and Flashing the Firmware

This guide assumes you are running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which is the currently supported development environment.

Installing the ARM Embedded Toolchain

sudo apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi

You can test the installation and check which version is installed by running arm-none-eabi-gcc --version.

Building the Firmware from Source

Now that we have the compiler installed, simply clone the ROSflight firmware repository, pull down the submodules, and build:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/rosflight/rosflight_firmware
cd rosflight_firmware
mkdir build 
cd build 
cmake .. -DBUILD_VARMINT=TRUE
make

Flashing Newly-Built Firmware

TODO

Update this when hardware support is finalized.

First, make sure you have configured your computer as described in the Serial Port Configuration section of the user guide.

F4

Flash the firmware to the board by running make BOARD=REVO flash. If necessary, specify the serial port with make BOARD=REVO SERIAL_DEVICE=/dev/ttyACM0 flash.