On Friday 23 Apr 2004 1:22 pm, Richard Bytheway wrote: > > You can find my pictures at http://photos.stockill.org.uk/ludex2004 > > I have to ask, what is img_0006.jpg (Captioned "It's evil.... but it might > just work.....")? > Richard It's the arrangement of two potentiometers at right angles that we then fastened at one end to the helicopter deck (bottom pot, using about half a metre of duct tape) and at the other to a rod leading from the rotor shaft (twisted wire at the location marked with green and white tape around the aluminium L-section). The idea was to be able to get resistances/voltages/joystick values for the X and Y motions of the real helicopter cyclic control. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the USB on the PCs that we were lent, and although the construction was somewhat evil, it did not, in the end, work. Regards Jonathan
PS I am of the opinion that this was, in retrospect, not a Bad Thing (R). The real cyclic control was very heavy, because the rotor had the blades mounted, but of course no servos. Many of our users would have struggled badly. Disappointing for Jon, though, who had put heroic efforts into the interface electronics. J. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
