[simpits-tech] collimated display progress...

[dabigboy at cox.net]

---- Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote: 
> On Sun, 1 May 2011, dabigboy at cox.net wrote:
> 
> > ---- Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
> >> Pic taken last night:
> >>
> >> http://www.geneb.org/images/framework_gene.jpg
> >>
> >> The assembly went as easily as I'd hoped.  With any luck, we'll be able to
> >> start work on the new screen & support "spider" this coming weekend.
> >>
> >> g.
> >
> > Larger than life! Can't wait to see the finished project Gene, I am very 
> > interested in possibly using your design when I upgrade from my desktop 
> > panel unit and build with a real fuselage.
> >
> We still haven't contacted SEOS/Rockwell-Collins to find out if they'll 
> grant hobbyists a free license for the features their patents cover.  If 
> they don't want to grant a free license, then no plans will be made 
> available, sorry!

Oh bummer! Did you gather some detailed info directly from their patents? Or are you simply influenced by systems of theirs you've seen first-hand? Either way, at the very least you have put this basic idea on the table for us home builders and proven its validity, which is enough to make me pursue the same sort of rig, even if detailed plans are not available.

Still, I suspect if you push the non-commercial aspect of our pits when you contact them, they will be nice about it. We'z all just good ol' boys playing with big ol' toys in our garages, no crazy commercial training going on or anything. :)

Matt