[simpits-tech] New board, interesting

[dabigboy at cox.net]

---- geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote: 
> 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.

I was going to mention that one...I still have mine in the box, not yet played with it. It looks like it will be a great little unit, I just have not had a need for it yet. I thought of using it to run an FMS, but so far the only screen I need in my old sim is radar, and that's running off a standard PC with a VGA-to-composite converter. And with the Sabreliner, it looks like I will be using almost all real hardware. It even still has its high-dollar (but old) Trimble GPS which I would like to get working with X-Plane.

Matt