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About Lot2Learn

  • Birthday 06/01/1965

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    Sim games, Guitar, Photography, DJ

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  1. Hi, After 2 weeks of trials I Finally found a bigger LCD that is fast enough to handle the radar altimeter. I had to try a few and work a lot on color management, not sure I understand everything I need, workflow is difficult, lots of trials and errors trying to get Photoshop 16 bits colors to match TFT screens RGB565 and get something at least viewable without too much color shift. Have to work and understand Vinc_Vega's sketches on PWM for ESP32, last time I tried I couldn't make it... I simply couldn't understand,still home works to do. IMG_1631.MOV
  2. Thank You very much for the explanation here No1sonuk, I will definitely give it a try...Another thing to learn I'll never get over it lol. I can't wait to be retired form work in 3 years, I need to spend more time on my many projects...People here on this forum are all really nice and helpful. I'm very impressed by the time everyone is taking to help each others. Thanks again ! Lot2Learn
  3. Here's my last project thought it would go easy at first but got into trouble getting sprites overs sprites over sprites. I've had a few issues with the red and green lights trying to simulate it. That's where most of my time went in this one (flickering issues), now solved. Over the video the red and green lights when off appears to be to too bright but live they're just fine. I now only have to work the increase / decrease situation over an encoder with an ESP32 and PWM, from what I understand right now it works somehow different then Arduino, work in progress for this part. Ahh also need to find another display a little bigger, I don't think I'll find a round one but will search for something around 2.25 / 2.5 inches IMG_1622.MOV
  4. The completely round one is a Waveshare 1.28 LCD with GC09A01 driver, the one with a square circuit board was bought on Amazon same driver
  5. No1sonuk did you make the demo of the servo, I bought a few but didn't went far with it, and like said on my previous post I thought x27 where pretty hard to understand and code.
  6. Wow that's a nice screen, great work looks fantastic. I'll have to search a little more in the next few days, I'm on the FA18 Radar Altimeter right now with the same small 1.28" waveshare but will need to make one a little bigger like around 2.5".
  7. Thanks No1sonuk, you've been great help. I've previously made an IAS with a stepper x27 and if I consider the stepper, driver, hall effect I had to use I would say the price comes close one to another. But foremost I'm quite impressed by the quality of graphic on Oled/Lcd, and find it gets me more in line with what I see on screen with the game. I must be masochist... in a way I had fun searching, reading and learn with these screens. The Battery gauge took me overall 1.5 to 2 months to figure out, the brake pressure I got it within a week, and for the past two days I've bee working on the radar Altimeter, which has a lot more going on and I should be able to finish in a day or two. I for myself find it easier to work with (easier) than steppers, I didn't do much with servos but I assume it should be similar to stepper.
  8. Yes I did, I've learned a lot over the past two months. I'm going next on the Hydraulic pressure one and when I feel strong enough I'll go for the one that scares me ''the Attitude Indicator'' you've been great inspiration with the one you posted on Vimeo thanks
  9. Hi, Second attempt after the Batteries gauge, went a lot faster with this one, No1sonuk and Vince_Vega have been of great help with my poor coding skills and knowledge on microcontroller as ESP32. Thanks guys ! Lot2Learn IMG_1609.MOV
  10. Thanks to you also Vinc_Vega, I noticed servo.h was not supported by ESP32, I downloaded another library that should work if I need later on, but for now I was coding for a round 240 x 240 Oled screen inspired by the video of your different gauges I've seen on Vimeo. Thanks Lot2learn
  11. Thank You No1sonuk for your help on that one, it took me a week to understand the mapping function in conjunction with the pointer calibration tool in DCS-Bios FP. Having it reset to 16 volts when there is a change of scenario, mission, or simply when the game is paused was also a challenge for me, but I got it working the way it should. thanks again for taking the time to help. Lot2learn...still
  12. Thank you very much, I would appreciate if you could send your example. I'm bad at coding and the more I get example the better I 'll get ( I Hope ). Making sketch for switch and pots was easy at first now it's more in the major league with steppers and oled...I find it though.
  13. Thanks so much, I'll give it a try tomorrow morning, do you know if DCS Bios is supporting ESP32 ? I've had errors earlier when I tried it said that servo and DCS Bios libraries both didn't support ESP32, they do with Atmel, STM and many others but I'm not sure with ESP32. Thanks again you've helped me a lot, I appreciate
  14. Thanks No1sonuk, It took me 6 weeks to get over this with a potentiometer, I have very few skills in programming so I understand part of what your telling me here but most of it I'll have to research, and make a little trial and errors lolll. It's been a long time 5/6 months or so since I tried coding with DCS Bios, and just realized while trying that it looks like DCS Bios and servo.h does not work with ESP32 I think, I may be wrong. thanks again
  15. HI, Really proud of this one, it has been a long run of over 6 weeks of research, trials and errors but I finally got it to work over a potentiometer for now... Next is going to be for me to find how to implement in harmony with Bios Fork...which should turn out in a few weeks of learning curves. Thanks to Vince Vega who without knowing got me into this, after I finished my first mechanical IAS with stepper X27 I saw his videos of different gauges oleds project on Vimeo, I was really impressed with the quality of graphics, and decided to buy many ESP32's and Oled and took the plunge. I taught at first that the batteries gauge would be an easy one to go with at first but having two needles going opposite ways was the most challenging part for me. I should have went to school much longer lollll. Lot2Learn 2023-03-19 Batt Gauge 2 Needles.MOV
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