Hi, Very nice piece of kit - but a little costly. I've been toying with the idea of building my own generic single seat cockpit unit. I do MIDI, LCD, Serial and Keyboard interface controllers. Recently I've got hold of some USB chips and have been planning to make some control panels for FlightGear. I'm wondering how many people would be interested in developing some 'open-source' hardware for FlightGear? We have facilities here including precision CNC milling and drilling, circuit board fabrication and welding. I'd be quite happy to do general control panels at a price little over cost or provide the circuit board and chips.
I'm not too familar on how FlightGear handles inputs and frankly I don't want to start getting involved in developing software on the 'other' side on the control panel. I think USB would be a good choice of interface as it would allow for flexible configuration over time. My rough ideas for a generic cockpit would be based on a tubular aliminium frame and supporting structure for displays, PC and controls, with optional plywood cladding for the outside. Internally panels would be held with a steel frame supporting structure. My aims are to make the cockpit as simple to build as possible. This should be easier to achieve if taking a generic approach rather than trying to model the cockpit on a actual aircraft. I don't know if this is the right place to be discussing this (is the devel mail-list intended for software development? If so could a hardware development mail-list be set up?). I'd be happy to hear from anyone interested, even if it's only ideas at this point in time. All the best, Al Quoting Jon Berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > F-16 cockpit: > > http://www.aimsworth.com/ > > Jon > > -- > > Project Coordinator > JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model > http://www.jsbsim.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
