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[simpits-tech] New vids! [message #2764] Wed, 28 March 2012 16:15 Go to next message
Gene Buckle is currently offline Gene Buckle
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...and F-15 progress finally! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKrUuGj8YyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7tJaJJbRkc

Here's the blog post that goes with the videos:
http://www.f15sim.com/?p=223




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Re: [simpits-tech] New vids! [message #2765 is a reply to message #2764 ] Wed, 28 March 2012 18:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Sean Galbraith is currently offline Sean Galbraith
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Wow! You said you were getting your centipede going! Great work!

Is the warning panel all aircraft parts, or simulated? I have just
acquired a 737 fire control panel, and have been playing around with
driving the handle solenoids with a relay via arduino... be nice to
drive all the korrys too :)

SeanG

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>
> ...and F-15 progress finally! :)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKrUuGj8YyA
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7tJaJJbRkc
>
> Here's the blog post that goes with the videos:
> http://www.f15sim.com/?p=223
>
>
>
>
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> http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
> Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
>
> ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
> http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
>
> Buying desktop hardware and installing a server OS doesn't make a
> server-class system any more than sitting in a puddle makes you a
duck.
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Re: [simpits-tech] New vids! [message #2766 is a reply to message #2765 ] Wed, 28 March 2012 19:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gene Buckle is currently offline Gene Buckle
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Sean Galbraith wrote:

> Wow! You said you were getting your centipede going! Great work!
>
> Is the warning panel all aircraft parts, or simulated? I have just
> acquired a 737 fire control panel, and have been playing around with
> driving the handle solenoids with a relay via arduino... be nice to
> drive all the korrys too :)
>
The master caution panel is OEM hardware. :) Pre-MSIP II. (Multi Stage
Improvement Program, phase II). The panel in the cockpit right now is the
more up to date version with a few updated legend plates.

I've got 7 more driver boards to solder up and the first 128 channels will
be ready to go. I need to start finalizing the bulkhead wiring too.

g.


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Re: [simpits-tech] New vids! [message #2767 is a reply to message #2766 ] Thu, 29 March 2012 01:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Roy Coates is currently offline Roy Coates
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Very cool, as always.

Please tell me more about those driver boards! For my last project I used
4 (yes, FOUR) phidget 16's to drive lamps'n'stuff and that gets expensive
very quickly in the UK.

Roy.

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Re: [simpits-tech] New vids! [message #2768 is a reply to message #2767 ] Thu, 29 March 2012 08:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gene Buckle is currently offline Gene Buckle
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Roy Coates wrote:

> Very cool, as always.
>
> Please tell me more about those driver boards! For my last project I used
> 4 (yes, FOUR) phidget 16's to drive lamps'n'stuff and that gets expensive
> very quickly in the UK.

That's one of the reasons I designed the boards - the other is that the
Phidget output boards are sink, not source devices. You can't pull much
power through them either or you'll burn 'em up.

The board is simply 16 driver sets consisting of a pair of resistors, a
2N3904 transistor and a TIP-125 darlington transistor. The 2N3904 takes
a 5v input to turn on the TIP-125. The board uses two power busses in
order to allow you to have two source voltages on the same board if
needed.

I can post the Eagle files if you want them. I paid $103 about a year ago
to have 16 of them made by Gold Phoenix.

g.


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Re: [simpits-tech] New vids! [message #2772 is a reply to message #2768 ] Thu, 29 March 2012 21:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
dabigboy is currently offline dabigboy
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---- Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:
>
> That's one of the reasons I designed the boards - the other is that the
> Phidget output boards are sink, not source devices. You can't pull much
> power through them either or you'll burn 'em up.
>
> The board is simply 16 driver sets consisting of a pair of resistors, a
> 2N3904 transistor and a TIP-125 darlington transistor. The 2N3904 takes
> a 5v input to turn on the TIP-125. The board uses two power busses in
> order to allow you to have two source voltages on the same board if
> needed.
>
> I can post the Eagle files if you want them. I paid $103 about a year ago
> to have 16 of them made by Gold Phoenix.

I'm interested too.......I don't know much about board design, but I would be happy to send some documentation to a board builder for $100'ish to get enough driver boards for my sim. I am just getting into Arduino with an Uno, It seems the way to go....VERY cheap, and very versatile.

Matt
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Re: [simpits-tech] New vids! [message #2773 is a reply to message #2772 ] Fri, 30 March 2012 08:24 Go to previous message
Gene Buckle is currently offline Gene Buckle
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, dabigboy@cox.net wrote:

>> I can post the Eagle files if you want them. I paid $103 about a year ago
>> to have 16 of them made by Gold Phoenix.
>
> I'm interested too.......I don't know much about board design, but I
> would be happy to send some documentation to a board builder for
> $100'ish to get enough driver boards for my sim. I am just getting into
> Arduino with an Uno, It seems the way to go....VERY cheap, and very
> versatile.

Matt, check out http://geneb.simpits.org - I re-posted what I put on
another forum and I've included a zip file that has all the Eagle & gerber
files. You must pay VERY close attention to wiring between the Centipede
and the driver board! The Centipede uses a 20 pin connector - it provides
2 common pins on pins 1 & 2 and 2 ground pins on pins 19 & 20. The driver
board is designed such that pins 1..16 are input pins and pins 17 & 18 are
ground pins. This means that you need to make sure that pin 3 on the
Centipede connector points to pin #1 on the driver board. Unfortunately
I've been unable to find 18 pin ribbon cable connectors, so I used 20 pin
connectors for the test rig. I've got actual crimp connectors for when
it's actually built out, but those are spendy. (The connector bodies are
dirt cheap, they get you on the crimp sockets!)



g.
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