[simpits-tech] New board, interesting

[geneb]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, dabigboy at cox.net wrote:

>> The cool thing is that the choices for this kind of thing has exploded in
>> the last 5-7 years.  When Rob & I started down the flight sim cockpit path
>> in 1996, the _only_ off the shelf product was the EPIC ISA board.
>>
>> g.
>
> That's very true. I got the bug to build something around 2000, and 
> about I could come up with for interfacing was the Phidgets stuff ($$$, 
> not a lot of I/O, and kinda restrictive) and Leo's Beta Innovations 
> stuff which then went away.
>
Yeah.  I'm _still_ pissed off at Leo for that. :(

> I had not checked out the Due before, that looks pretty cool. I must 
> admit, the tough little Uno boards have done all I need so far.

My board-of-choice at the moment is the Raspberry Pi.  For $35 you get a 
good little machine with an HDMI port on it that you can use to drive 
small dedicated LCDs for cockpit displays.

g.


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