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I know how cnc works-a moving arm like a plotter and engraves letters and patterns on a fixed board or panel. no idea about what a lathe does, how it made those nice letters for you.

estimate is based on my push pull switch. maybe others have different size switch.

Looks like 3/8" to me, which is 0.375" like your estimate. O slightly more.

Nice! wish I have such a machine.

this is displaying numbers of the fuel flow. Will it be possible to get a small display to display the fuel panel like a small monitor, ie. display the panel as graphics instead of numbers?

Using the tool above to cut custom size circles, and heating the acrylic and bending to desired angle, are surprising easy. I was hesitant at first then quite happy with the result.

You have a nice A10 front dash. But it took me a while to figure out that that was an arrestor hook, so you are probably building a generic cockpit instead of a10 only pit?

The plan is to build the front dash such that all panels and switch are build upwards, so that nothing protrudes below that may scratch the monitor screen. So far so good. Even all the toggles on the AHCP don't protrude below, given enough layers to build them up so that the toggle legs don't stick out too much below.

Tap plastics sells circles of standard sizes like 1 or 2 or 3 inches. I had to cut my own custom size. Then join them together.

Reusing some old acrylic sheets, hence the weird circles and dots.

Attempting to build a DIY 4 way hat. Four push buttons placed vertically. A spring to move back to center position.

thanks guys.

these two.

next question. in the CMSC panel, under chaff and flare window, there are two RWR indicators. How do those work? Does it mean you get a warning on the left and right side of the plane? In the flight manual there is no mention of these indicators when they light up.

thanks lynxdk.

thanks guys!

Guys, on the navigation select mode panel, some buttons light up with single triangle, some two. Those that show one, will also show only one, and those that show two always two? I mean they don't sometimes show one and sometimes two right? Any meaning behind one or two triangles?

Very clean and neat and pro looking. :thumbup:

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Gremlin, thanks for your effort to share this. It'd take me time to digest this. When I'm done doing my panels, and switch to wiring them I'd try this. Initially I thought of one small arduino card per panel but quickly learned the limit of number of usb ports a PC can take. Then Ian said of using buses to join arduinos together. But he said i2c are error prone and RS-485 is the way to go. But you seem to have a working solution with i2c.

I started with using these type of female pins as I had a bunch of them. https://buildyourcnc.com/item/3d-printer-component-connector-female-2!54-pitch-newbiehack-connectors-female-2!54pitch-wrcon then plug them into a pin strip, then into the arduino board. But one side of the pin strip is always too short to hold securely. Then I use the male pins from pololu. They go all the way into the sockets and hold better. https://www.pololu.com/product/1931 and use them with the female header connector to prevent the body of the male pins from touching each other. Else you have to use rubber heat shrink tubes to wrap each pin's body.

sleepara's solution of using two pieces of reflective glass with normal lcd screen seems like the simplest and cheapest solution. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=90825

Warhog, thanks for your words of encouragement. Coming from a guru means a lot.

From Ace hardware store. Looks like the right shape and size to me.