Current HW SW status

Rolling updates on the status of hardware and software

Hardware

• 5/10/2020 - Production Hardware in manufacturing

Software

October demo update

The changelog for the October Demo Image update is as follows:

• Added support for SLCAN devices

• Added SPI support through the userspace SPI driver "spidev"

• Fixed issues with SDMA firmware loading

• Fixed an issue with Bluetooth sometimes not working after a reboot

NavQ development updates

As of July 17 2020:

• <u> 20.04 image is fully working with package manager, ROS, UART, WiFi, etc.

As of July 8 2020:

• An <u> 19.10 image was built and tested with the Google Coral camera. A picture was successfully taken using this image. A working image with the following features should be finished Soon™:

  • Gstreamer + OpenCV w/ working camera

  • UART communication to NXP RDDRONE-FMUK66 for Offboard control using MAVROS (not from)

  • WiFi connection for communication with NavQ

    • Would enable streaming video back to base station for processing as well as creating in-house user interfaces for controlling the HoverGames drone

As of July 7 2020:

• NXP Yocto Debian image

• 3rd party <u>-like image

  • Works, can install ROS/OpenCV, but most hardware doesn't work (camera, hdmi, etc)

• 3rd party Debian image

• EmCraft Linux image

  • Works, has desktop, has OpenCV/Gstreamer, no ROS