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Old July 5th 06, 06:55 PM posted to rec.aviation.simulators
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Hello all you simmers;

If any of you have considered linking up hardware to your PC and going
further than with a joystick and pedals, and if you like 747-400
planes, the forums at http://www.nippoo.net are sure going to help!
Tons of drawings, renderings and general info on building 744 home
cockpit simulators! An opportunity not to be missed!

-N

a href="http://www.nippoo.net"The 747 Project/a

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Old July 6th 06, 05:04 PM posted to rec.aviation.simulators
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Good question. I've been wondering the same thing about the other
members of this forum.

I have started building some hardware for FS9. So far, most of my work
has been researching all of the options out there (and there are
lots!). Right now, I've got 1 instrument up and running: a directional
gyro. I bought a used DG off of eBay (cheap since it needed to be
rebuilt) and removed the gyro section which I replaced with a stepper
motor and electronic control with a serial cable data connection. I
had to write a little bit of software to grab the heading data from FS9
(using FSUIPC) and send it out the serial port to the instrument. It
works great.

If you are a do-it-yourselfer kind of person who likes to save a bit of
money, an incredible resource is Mike Powell's book "Building Simulated
Aircraft Instruments". This is where I got all the ideas, plans,
schematics, and microcontroller code I needed to kick start my Simpit.

My goal is to build a simple Cessna 172 panel, with 3 overhead
projector displays using WidevieW. I'm sure it will take a long time
at the rate I am going, but I'm learning a lot and having a great time
doing it!

I'd be very interested in sharing ideas and maybe even
software/hardware development with anyone else who might be using
Mike's book to build instruments....











wrote:
Hello all you simmers;

If any of you have considered linking up hardware to your PC and going
further than with a joystick and pedals, and if you like 747-400
planes, the forums at
http://www.nippoo.net are sure going to help!
Tons of drawings, renderings and general info on building 744 home
cockpit simulators! An opportunity not to be missed!

-N

a href="http://www.nippoo.net"The 747 Project/a


 




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