[simpits-tech] Interesting site...

[Chris Brace]

Peter, 
yes your right the radio does use a lot of phidget devices! As Chester has 
pointed out, I asked for these devices and along the way have been trying to 
keep in the design philosophy of the phidgets themselves, while giving 
feedback to Chester of ways of making them better and more useable. We are 
trying to work out how this could be done a little better, but there are trade-
off's. 
An example being where a particular panel needs just a single encoder and 1 
LED display (8x7seg) then phidgets are perfect for it. On the other hand if 
you have a device like the C172 radio stack where there are a cluster of 
devices then using a bunch of individual devices becomes a real hastle and not 
very cost effective either, so a mulitpurpose device would be much more 
practical. It is obvious in the radio example, but often the line is a little 
less easy to spot. I found this while working on the radio project and I guess 
this is the only way to really find this type of problem out. 
Im not too worried about the numbers at this point, since I have two pit 
projects on the go with both types of needs and I figure I'll use the devices 
anyway. As the phidget devices mature and the ideas fine tune them Im sure you 
will see that they become a very cost effective solution being simple to use 
and easy to install.

Chris.

> It seems to me that Phidgets could become as expensive as an Epic if you
> use a lot of them. I looked at Chris Brace's Cessna radio and he's using
> 19 Phidgets. If I've got something wrong, I'd be glad to be corrected.
> 
> I been working on building the FSBUS system. I've still got a way to go
> but the new English site will make it easier. I've been translating the
> documentation using Babelfish. If you can make your own circuit boards,
> which isn't that hard, it's a much more economical solution.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> At 08:08 26/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >It's more of a "desperate man's EPIC". Go with Phidgets. They come
> >already assembled and they just *work*.
> >
> >g.
> >
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