The team working on safe, reliable releases of Open Solo publishes them here. You can read all the details in the release notes, and link directly to installation instructions. These are the "official" instructions. These instructions superceed any other older instructions, videos, and wikis that came before Open Solo.

Release notes and instructions

Open Solo Release Notes
For stock solos and previously installed and working green cubes, go straight to the Open Solo installation procedures:
- Install using the Solex app on Android for stock pixhawk cubes and previously installed green cubes
- Install using SidePilot app on iOS
- Install using SSH/SFTP on widows or mac (No procedure has been created yet)
For a brand new Green Cube installation please follow these updated instructions!
- New green cube installation procedure

Solo Beta Test group on Facebook (primary Open Solo and Green Cube support group!!)
Solo Mod Club group on Facebook
Solex Users group on Facebook
Solex App official website. This app is truely the future of Solo's user interface!
SidePilot Community on Facebook
Jester's Drones for the Green Cube and other cool gear
ProfiCNC for the Green Cube and other cool gear
ArduPilot homepage
ArduCopter Full Parameter List details all 700 something parameters in ArduCopter.
ArduCopter introduction: Learn what you're getting yourself into :)
Mission Planner ground station app for Windows
Filezilla for moving files to/from the companion computer
WinSCP for moving files to/from the companion computer

Building Open Solo For Developers

FOR DEVELOPERS!! Not for general users that just want to put Open Solo releases on their solo!!!

Building Open Solo (everything)

If you want to build Open Solo, take a look at solo-builder here. It contains everything you need to build OpenSolo from scratch and update your artoo/solo. If you want to make customisations or build something specific take a look below.

Note: solo-builder is producing corrupt artoo stm32 binaries for some users. See the artoo docs if your artoo becomes "bricked" or doesn't turn on. (this is normally easily recoverable)

Artoo (the controller)

How to build the stm32 firmware

How to flash the stm32 firmware

How to unbrick artoo

How to customise start/shutdown image

How to customise strings/text (coming soon!)

Solo

Nothing yet :(

How to get involved

This documentation is pretty empty right now. If you know how Solo or Artoo works (or don't know!) and want to get involved pull requests are welcome on this documentation and all of the sub projects. (artoo, solo-builder etc) Most of the developers are hanging out on gitter and Facebook.

Special Mentions!

All of this would not be possible without 3DR. They very generously open sourced most of their internal code and build tools to make this possible. You can see the official 3DR release statement here and the ardupilot team's statement here.

Special thanks to Buzz and Peter for making this happen, and everyone else who has contributed to make solo even better.

README.md

Open Solo Releases For Users