[simpits-tech] Returned from I/ITSEC and why not go mechanical?

Wed Dec 5 07:37:36 PST 2007

 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.

just my HO

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Fagner <crease-guard at sbcglobal.net>
To: 'Simulator Cockpit tech list' <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
Sent: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 8:07 am
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Returned from I/ITSEC and why not go mechanical?

Don't feel too bad.  I went last year and yes it's impressive but in the end
you realize that we home builders are knats compared to these other guys.
These are multi-million dollar companies with lots of resources and lots of
smart people on the payrolls.

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org
[mailto:simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org] On Behalf Of Ben Jones
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:58 AM
To: Simulator Cockpit tech list
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Returned from I/ITSEC and why not go mechanical?

Man I envy anyone that can and does go to some of these big conventions.

I Australia the biggest " Sim convention" ive been to was a party at a mates

place with several pizza boxes and cartons of beer , with the old LAN 
running playing falcon with 6 guy's.

Kinda pathetic isn't it  8-(

Cheers to all
Ben
West Oz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KD" <chevello at rcn.com>
To: <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:37 PM
Subject: [simpits-tech] Returned from I/ITSEC and why not go mechanical?

> First for the circuit thing. Why not mount one LED in a slider so that
> the LED moves and illuminates the letter that you want (PRNDL)? Meh,
> just a thought. I'm lazy when it comes to building circuits. I'd rather
> play on the mill and lathe :)
>
> OK, the trip to I/ITSEC
>    Oh....MY...GAWD.... You guys would be so cooled out you would freeze
> to death right there in the OC convention center parking lot. I need to
> get Falcon 4 or LockOn running on something so that I don't feel like
> I'm going to make an ass out of myself flying someone's sim. As soon as
> anyone heard where I'm from and what we have contracts for, they all
> wanted me to fly their sims. And I wasn't even in a flight suit :D Be
> kind, it was my first trip.
>    I looked around once and there was this Army Colonel pointing an M16
> right at me. It's a good thing it had a red cap on the end of the
> barrel, or I would have hit the deck. It fired a blank (no guns in the
> house Mom said!) and there was a target that lit up between him and me.
> I got to talk to a few of the guys cutting LCD glass for MFDs and
> things, but they didn't want to discuss the Tannas process aside from
> what a pain it is to set up a clean room. So, no DIY LCD resizing as yet.
>    There were a couple of setups for using multiple low-cost projectors
> that align the projectors for seamless large size images. Pretty neat.
> The guy would move the projectors around on the table, then run the
> autosetup, and the thing would take pictures from a camera, grids and
> things would show up, then the image came back up looking like one image
> from 4 projectors. Had a meeting after hours with Barco to see a new
> projector, but can't talk about it on account of the NDA :( Although I
> can say that it was NICE!)
>    Tried out a head mount display set that was pretty cool until I
> turned my head and the lag came into play. Even without the vehicle I
> was virtually in, moving, I got a little woozy. Another HMD from a
> company called DEI was see-through, and the image only displayed on a
> reflective surface inside the sim room. The image was dim and FOV was
> too narrow though. Interesting concept.
>    More along the Commercial lines, there was a guy had a 3 Plasma
> screen display that used a screen on either side viewed directly through
> a filter of some kind (maybe a polarizer) and the center one suspended
> above, horizontally and viewed through a mirror. You could move 3 or 4
> feet to either side and not see the edges of the center screen. It just
> looked like one 80" wide image. THAT was cool. Ill look through my
> flyers and see if I can find a link. It might be something someone could
> do at least a makeshift version of without too much trouble if the
> center mirror wasn't curved. Some of the new F-35 and F-22 stuff was
> pretty neat.
>    I did run into one guy when I was hanging out at the PhotoEtch booth
> that was wearing a flight suit without patches on it. He was asking
> questions about knobs and what they look like below the panel. It made
> me think of you guys.
>    I also got to meet Chris Woodul of the giant collection of ejection
> seats. Pretty cool guy. He was telling us about flying some Saudi
> businessman's 747-400 that the guy spent $250Mil on jsut the refit after
> he got the thing.
>    There was lots of cool stuff, too much to really pay attention to
> all of. Next year should be better, since I won't be so overwhelmed, and
> maybe I'll have some more jet sim experience to show off with. I'm
> pretty good in a Yak-3, but the jets have too much crap in them that I
> have yet to learn. Great show.
>
> KeithD
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