Disclaimer: Open Solo is a work in progress! You will almost certainly brick your Solo or controller if you follow these instructions!
A temporary place to store documentation. It's location will probably change once we setup a proper wiki. The solo controller is often called "artoo" - that is what's primarily used in this documentation.
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)
How to build the stm32 firmware
How to flash the stm32 firmware
How to customise start/shutdown image
How to customise strings/text (coming soon!)
Nothing yet :(
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.
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.