<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Gene</div>Have you given any thought to using CANBus instead of long point to point wiring?<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>David</div>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Good friends are the rare jewels of life, difficult to find and impossible to replace!!</span></p></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 30, 2023, at 8:01 AM, geneb <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Michi Hirczy wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Very, very nice, video, Gene, thx for the insights!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>First of all, congrats to the cancer fight, didn't know about it until</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>today!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span>Thanks!</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I really, really got a lot of flashbacks from your story, because it's</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>so quite similar to mine:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>software developer, and when I started basically no crafting knowledge</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>except cutting some wood with a jigsaw and drilling and screwing with a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>battery drill.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Now, 25 years later, I have more or less a fully equipped machine shop,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>a fully equiped woodshop, a CNC desktop mill, 2 3D printers and a laser</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>cutter...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>... AND am able to operate all of them (more or less) succesfully.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span>Yep. Nothing makes you learn a skill faster than the combination of a pressing need and the lack of funds to get someone else to do it. :D</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Same with electronics - no idea of anything, and as you said, nowadays</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>it's as simple as googling some "Arduino"-projectinfo and you're good to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>go...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>CAD?? I did learn basic geometric drawing in highschool, now I can</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>design and build a whole altimeter from scratch :-D</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Really interesting journey, isn't it?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span>Absolutely!</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>BTW, is the ladder seen the remnants from Fred? Or did you build a new</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>one? What happened to Fred?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Ha! I'd completely forgotten about Fred (a stair). :D</span><br><span></span><br><span>The access platforms are both "new". When I moved to my current residence in 2006, I had a steel box beam frame built for the cockpit. That raised it quite a bit in comparison to where it was on the wooden 4x4 frame. One of my projects is to add storage drawers to them so I can keep all the F-15 parts closer to where I need them. :) Unfortunately, 30" drawer slides are just insanely priced, so I'm going to have to make my own. Tons cheaper, but takes more time.</span><br><span></span><br><span>g.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007</span><br><span>http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.</span><br><span>http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.</span><br><span>Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.</span><br><span></span><br><span>ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment</span><br><span>A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.</span><br><span>http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Simpits-tech mailing list</span><br><span>Simpits-tech@simpits.org</span><br><span>http://www.simpits.org/mailman/listinfo/simpits-tech</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, please see the instructions at the bottom of the above page. Thanks!</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>