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<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">besides that if you got 6 fiends/mates that you can have over to do a lan party with your still actually doing better then the mega million dollar sim builders.<br>
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From: Joseph Fagner <crease-guard@sbcglobal.net><br>
To: 'Simulator Cockpit tech list' <simpits-tech@simpits.org><br>
Sent: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 8:07 am<br>
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Returned from I/ITSEC and why not go mechanical?<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Don't feel too bad. I went last year and yes it's impressive but in the end<br>
you realize that we home builders are knats compared to these other guys.<br>
These are multi-million dollar companies with lots of resources and lots of<br>
smart people on the payrolls.<br>
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Jay<br>
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[<a href="mailto:simpits-tech-bounces@simpits.org?">mailto:simpits-tech-bounces@simpits.org</a>] On Behalf Of Ben Jones<br>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:58 AM<br>
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Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Returned from I/ITSEC and why not go mechanical?<br>
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Man I envy anyone that can and does go to some of these big conventions.<br>
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I Australia the biggest " Sim convention" ive been to was a party at a mates<br>
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place with several pizza boxes and cartons of beer , with the old LAN <br>
running playing falcon with 6 guy's.<br>
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Kinda pathetic isn't it 8-(<br>
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Cheers to all<br>
Ben<br>
West Oz<br>
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From: "KD" <<a href="mailto:chevello@rcn.com">chevello@rcn.com</a>><br>
To: <<a href="mailto:simpits-tech@simpits.org">simpits-tech@simpits.org</a>><br>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:37 PM<br>
Subject: [simpits-tech] Returned from I/ITSEC and why not go mechanical?<br>
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> First for the circuit thing. Why not mount one LED in a slider so that<br>
> the LED moves and illuminates the letter that you want (PRNDL)? Meh,<br>
> just a thought. I'm lazy when it comes to building circuits. I'd rather<br>
> play on the mill and lathe :)<br>
><br>
> OK, the trip to I/ITSEC<br>
> Oh....MY...GAWD.... You guys would be so cooled out you would freeze<br>
> to death right there in the OC convention center parking lot. I need to<br>
> get Falcon 4 or LockOn running on something so that I don't feel like<br>
> I'm going to make an ass out of myself flying someone's sim. As soon as<br>
> anyone heard where I'm from and what we have contracts for, they all<br>
> wanted me to fly their sims. And I wasn't even in a flight suit :D Be<br>
> kind, it was my first trip.<br>
> I looked around once and there was this Army Colonel pointing an M16<br>
> right at me. It's a good thing it had a red cap on the end of the<br>
> barrel, or I would have hit the deck. It fired a blank (no guns in the<br>
> house Mom said!) and there was a target that lit up between him and me.<br>
> I got to talk to a few of the guys cutting LCD glass for MFDs and<br>
> things, but they didn't want to discuss the Tannas process aside from<br>
> what a pain it is to set up a clean room. So, no DIY LCD resizing as yet.<br>
> There were a couple of setups for using multiple low-cost projectors<br>
> that align the projectors for seamless large size images. Pretty neat.<br>
> The guy would move the projectors around on the table, then run the<br>
> autosetup, and the thing would take pictures from a camera, grids and<br>
> things would show up, then the image came back up looking like one image<br>
> from 4 projectors. Had a meeting after hours with Barco to see a new<br>
> projector, but can't talk about it on account of the NDA :( Although I<br>
> can say that it was NICE!)<br>
> Tried out a head mount display set that was pretty cool until I<br>
> turned my head and the lag came into play. Even without the vehicle I<br>
> was virtually in, moving, I got a little woozy. Another HMD from a<br>
> company called DEI was see-through, and the image only displayed on a<br>
> reflective surface inside the sim room. The image was dim and FOV was<br>
> too narrow though. Interesting concept.<br>
> More along the Commercial lines, there was a guy had a 3 Plasma<br>
> screen display that used a screen on either side viewed directly through<br>
> a filter of some kind (maybe a polarizer) and the center one suspended<br>
> above, horizontally and viewed through a mirror. You could move 3 or 4<br>
> feet to either side and not see the edges of the center screen. It just<br>
> looked like one 80" wide image. THAT was cool. Ill look through my<br>
> flyers and see if I can find a link. It might be something someone could<br>
> do at least a makeshift version of without too much trouble if the<br>
> center mirror wasn't curved. Some of the new F-35 and F-22 stuff was<br>
> pretty neat.<br>
> I did run into one guy when I was hanging out at the PhotoEtch booth<br>
> that was wearing a flight suit without patches on it. He was asking<br>
> questions about knobs and what they look like below the panel. It made<br>
> me think of you guys.<br>
> I also got to meet Chris Woodul of the giant collection of ejection<br>
> seats. Pretty cool guy. He was telling us about flying some Saudi<br>
> businessman's 747-400 that the guy spent $250Mil on jsut the refit after<br>
> he got the thing.<br>
> There was lots of cool stuff, too much to really pay attention to<br>
> all of. Next year should be better, since I won't be so overwhelmed, and<br>
> maybe I'll have some more jet sim experience to show off with. I'm<br>
> pretty good in a Yak-3, but the jets have too much crap in them that I<br>
> have yet to learn. Great show.<br>
><br>
> KeithD<br>
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