Introduction

The purpose of this document is to describe the plan for writing the firmware for the lighting board LED Board Rev 2. The board is planned to be used for competition drone for the AEAC 2025 competition Lighting Integration 2025.

The firmware for this project can be found in this Github repository: https://github.com/UWARG/efs-can-lighting.

Plan

Setup a Simple CAN Node

The goal of this step is to setup a simple CAN node that listens for the heartbeat message from Ardupilot.

• Implement something similar to https://github.com/dronecan/libcanard/tree/master/examples/SimpleNode but compatible with STM32

• Refer to the ESC node https://github.com/dronecan/libcanard/tree/master/examples/SimpleNode

Request and Receive a LightCommand Message

• TODO: Add to this section of the plan

Parse LightCommand Message and Interpret Data

• TODO: Add to this section of the plan

Set LED to Requested Color

• TODO: Add to this section of the plan

Contributors

• Folarin Fatola

• Mihir Gupta