I know the minimosd is bit out dated with the Betaflight F3 board and all but I just got a new FC and this thing is cheap so I wanted to try it.  

This is the one I got.  https://www.banggood.com/MICRO-MinimOSD-...ds=myorder


My question is does it come flashed ready to fly or will I have to follow all the Audrino steps?  

Also if I have to flash, it seems I won't be able to do that with the Serial passthrough trick on betaflight.  If so I'll need to pick up and FTDI.

Is this right?

Thanks

I got a couple of those, and I think they come with the MAVlink software - you'll need to flash MWOSD. If you hook it up and get "Waiting for MAVLINK heartbeats" - you'll know. I would flash it anyway, because you'll want the latest MWOSD in any case. And you are correct about needing an adapter to flash.

Thanks I went ahead and grabbed an adapter from banggood.