[simpits-tech] CanBus F-15C project relaunch!

[David C. Allen]

Gene
Have you given any thought to using CANBus instead of long point to point wiring?

David
Good friends are the rare jewels of life, difficult to find and impossible to replace!!


> On Jan 30, 2023, at 8:01 AM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Michi Hirczy wrote:
> 
>> Very, very nice, video, Gene, thx for the insights!
>> 
>> First of all,  congrats to the cancer fight, didn't know about it until
>> today!
>> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> I really, really got a lot of flashbacks from your story, because it's
>> so quite similar to mine:
>> software developer, and when I started basically no crafting knowledge
>> except cutting some wood with a jigsaw and drilling and screwing with a
>> battery drill.
>> 
>> Now, 25 years later, I have more or less a fully equipped machine shop,
>> a fully equiped woodshop, a CNC desktop mill, 2 3D printers and a laser
>> cutter...
>> 
>> ... AND am able to operate all of them (more or less) succesfully.
>> 
> Yep.  Nothing makes you learn a skill faster than the combination of a pressing need and the lack of funds to get someone else to do it. :D
> 
>> Same with electronics - no idea of anything, and as you said, nowadays
>> it's as simple as googling some "Arduino"-projectinfo and you're good to
>> go...
>> CAD?? I did learn basic geometric drawing in highschool, now I can
>> design and build a whole altimeter from scratch :-D
>> 
>> Really interesting journey, isn't it?
>> 
> Absolutely!
> 
>> BTW, is the ladder seen the remnants from Fred? Or did you build a new
>> one? What happened to Fred?
> 
> Ha!  I'd completely forgotten about Fred (a stair). :D
> 
> The access platforms are both "new".  When I moved to my current residence in 2006, I had a steel box beam frame built for the cockpit.  That raised it quite a bit in comparison to where it was on the wooden 4x4 frame.  One of my projects is to add storage drawers to them so I can keep all the F-15 parts closer to where I need them. :)  Unfortunately, 30" drawer slides are just insanely priced, so I'm going to have to make my own. Tons cheaper, but takes more time.
> 
> g.
> 
> 
> 
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