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Mine shows up next month. I plan on using it for panels as well as prototyping PCBs

I mounted a 1080p 27" monitor in my MIP and it works great.

Limit frame rate to refresh rate of rift?

The boards were intended to be inexpensive as the idea was to use 1 or so per panel

The standard EOS board has 16 digital inputs,16 digital outputs as well as dimmable backlight control and 4 analog inputs. There is also an expansion port that exposes a few outputs as well as the i2c bus (for more I/O). Connectivity is via serial or rs485 (there is a shield circuit that allows you to connect up to 12 to a single arduino Leonardo which is connected to PC via usb) Configuration is done in Helios. There are libs for encoders and such as well

How many EOS boards you think you need? I'll be having more built soon

Gadroc, Are you using Flims models for the MFCDs? I have also designed a PCB for them but it sounds like you took a slightly different approach...care to share what you have done? Im gearing up to build a batch ...BTW your EOS boards I fabbed worked great but havent had a chance till the last few weeks to do anything with them due to the little one.

Here you go. http://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/tl1240-series/19887

I have made PCBs. With regards to a tactile SW with a LED in it, they are hard to find and very expensive. I just designed my boards with LEDs next to the switch. Not sure how well they work yet. As I haven't had time to fab em yet

You can buy an dsub IDC crimper at Frys for less than $20. Crimp dsubs in about 30 seconds

Attached is my gun range script and a sample mission. It uses Mist so its included as well My script assigns targets to a zone. If you hit the target while your AC is in the zone it will score hits. If you hit the target while not in the zone..the hit will not count. This allows you to use a foul line or ensure that the AC is attacking from the proper direction,alt,etc. The zones are a polygon defined by a ground unit's waypoints. you can assign any number of targets to any number of zones. Targets do not have to be in a zone the shooter does (example would be a foul line) You also need to assign the units that can hit the targets as well There is also a radio menu to check and reset your stats. Right now only the player will see their own stats but I could tweak the messages regarding pass/fail to be configurable as global/private if desired There are no complicated triggers to set up ...all that is needed are two ONCE triggers...1 to load mist (mist be first) and 1 to load the range script All the common configuration options in the script are documented in the script itself gun range.zip

I wear glasses (astigmatism) and tried the rift for about 45 min. No problems here

Your doing it wrong ;). You need to right click and select set position THEN go and click save config on the main window. It's a clunky interface and I can't remember why I did it that way. I'll have to take a look at the source and see if I can make it more intuitive FYI the correct procedure is in the manual.

Hey Boltz, I was the one who worked with gremlin on Iris. I didn't realize people actually used it. How do you like it and is there anything you have issues with or would like improved.

I the one who finished up Iris and I had no idea anybody but Gremlin was actually using it. If you have any questions about it let me know.

Give me a month and I may have a few things to print for you.

If you program the teensie with the arduino IDE you could use/modify the EOS libs and have it talk directly with Helios.

One more thing micro python doesn't even support the full std python libs...yet

For integrating panels to the simulator it's overkill. All you need for that is a good ole tamely 328 processor which you can get as SMT or through hole for a few dollars This board is a 32bit ARM controller which is only available as SMT and costs 2-3x of an atmel That being said it could be useful for things other than simple input/outputs

out of curiousity which mainboard did you get?

I guess your definition of revolutionary is different than mine. Having a stereo HMD of the quality of the Rift for the price of the rift is quite revolutionary. SHMD for the price of a decent monitor would put it solidly in the consumer realm which has never been done before

I sell a curved stick shaft for Flims warthog extension kit...info is in my sig

the keyboard doesnt center by design

Helios only needs to know the location of DCS for the initial creation of the export lua when you define add the DCS-A10C interface. After that it doesnt care. you can go back and forth at will. if for some reason you need to do something to the interface and it complains about the location you have two options... 1. just point it to the director of where your current install is or 2. copy the helios profile and have one for each version.

make sure that the stick is properly attached to the base. If its not seated properly windows will "sort of" detect it but it will not be picked up as a controller. Unplug the stick from the computer then unscrew the stick from the base and re-attach it making sure that it is seated snugly. It can take some pressure to get the connector to seat before you tighten the locking ring. Snug the ring down then push on the stick again (moderate force like 5lbs or so) then tighten the ring further if it is loose. It will only need hand tightening but will be snug the first few times you attach it (if you ever take it apart once assembled). Then plug it back into the computer and it should be ok One more thing in the windows control panel just showing up isnt good enough. Make sure you can click on it and the axis and buttons are being reported. If the stick isnt properly attached to the base it will show up but the axis and such wont be there