[simpits-tech] beta innovations

[John Miguez]

I would like to give a "biased" plug for Leo Lacava and Beta
Innovations.  I met Leo on AVSIM's cockpit forum where along with Mike
Powell he is one of the electronic experts.  

He is very knowledgeable in electronics and is a sim builder.  He is
from Montréal and he seems to believe in developing products that are
high quality and affordable.  

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Bailey [mailto:mattb at rtccom.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:48 AM
To: Simulator Cockpit tech list
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] beta innovations

Man, neat stuff here.......I like the idea of being able to wire pots
etc into the USB board, I'd always figured I'd be either using a
gameport-to-USB adaptor, or hacking off-the-shelf USB joysticks. The
Plasma would be a much tidier solution. Hmmmm, wondering about those
decoders.......could you just hook these to the USB bus, plug in some
rotary encoders, and get keypresses from them in KB Studio.......? Looks
like maybe they are more for complex custom projects.

GammaRay looks similar in function to Hagstrom units as far as
interfacing toggle switches etc is concerned, no? Gonna have a look at
those PDFs.

The prices even look pretty decent. :)

	-Matt Bailey

"David C. Allen" wrote:
> 
> http://www.betainnovations.com/
> 
> At 10:01 PM 12/30/2003, you wrote:
> >Link?
> >
> >g.
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, David C. Allen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Justin
> > > I just received the Plasma Board, and I can say it is very well
made! I
> > > have asked Leo if he will be making an I/O board that would
interface the
> > > point-to-point wiring with the ribbon connectors used on the
Plasma
> > > Board. As of this writing I have not received an answer.
> > >
> > > I still will be using the 0/32/32 Phidgets I/O for the 737
Overhead Panel
> > > control.
> > >
> > > Happy New Year
> > >
> > > David
> > > www.737FlightSim.com
> > >
> > > At 09:18 AM 12/30/2003, you wrote:
> > >       They have some cool suff! I like the direction they are
going
> > >       as not all of us have the programing skill to use Phidgets.
> > >       The Keyboard Studio and Keyboard Emulator  look promising.
> > >
> > >       Justin