Gremlin77

So, just added the EMI panel. Pointers still missing. All Instruments will work with stepper motors of General Motors spare parts for Tachometer. The advantage of these is, that the have a mechanical zero position. So, to initalise, you just drive the stepper minimum a hole rotation leftside. So you get sure, you software and pointer have the same 0-position. Each instrument is drived by an H-bridge chip connected to an arduino to get DCS values over my I2C bus system. Each Instrument is lighted with a green diode from up right corner. Picture will follow when sun is down here in Germany :pilotfly:

finished right console with lilliput working

finally arrived and first steps So, the time has come. The Tornado cockpit finally arrived!!!! :lol: The first steps I made is to uninstall the left and right front console. After a little CAD work and laser cutting, the right front console backplate is finished. Here is the original Tornado console: and here is the modified for my A-10 You can see, Lilliput 8'' is fitted for right MFD. 'Cause of having only little space in center front console, I decided to move CMSC to the top of right console. To be continued....:D

these are only breakout cards. With them you can bring the inputs of the mastercard to screw fittings for connecting your switches

okay, seems no more interest. If anybody still wants one, I'll put them on ebay these days. So, go on building!

Oh, the second line is visible when CMSP is turned off??? Will look for the bug these days.

two 7-segment cards sold.

Hi guys, if you read my thread Gremlin's A-10 you know that I have build up my own Bus system. So I don't need my Opencockpit cards any more. I would sell them 30% off. I offer: 2xMaster Card each 38,50 € 1xExpansion USB Card 26,50 € 2xServo USB card each 17,50 € 4xDisplayCard for 7-segment displays each 23,- € 1xInputs Connection Card with encoder 28,-€ 3x Inputs Connection Card each 12,60 € I'll send to hole Europe. Don't know exact price for shipping. If someone is interested in shipping price, I can look up for your country. So, please contact if you are interested

you have to use either H-Bridge chip or darlington array. then you can move the stepper in any direction. I do it this way with arduino

I would go in the garage.....

Took me one year to find the fitting fuselage. Had two possibilities for an ISKRA trainer from Poland, but they only have one row of consoles on each side, so nothing for a real A-10 feeling. But don't you have better possibilities in the USA at the plane cementaries? Getting an old A-10 fuselage?

yes hans you are right, but then I'll be dead, cause my wife killed me........

ejection seat So, now I am a proud owner of a real tornado ejection seat. Cannot wait the day it arrives......

Thanks to all for donating! Very happy and motivated about that!

for gadroc Here are my code files for u cmspteachin COM version+part of cmsc.rar perhaps you can improve the mathematic model, cause some of the characters have the same countvalue.. And sorry for my bad programming style!! :megalol: the .ino file comes per mail

first part of manual the first part to start from Manual for cmsp and cmspCOM.pdf

I'll do it for cmsc, too. Think, should be easy.

Hi Gadroc, this would be great. But I think my programming skill don't go that far. I use helios, too. So what do you think, when I give you my few code lines of VB (but don't be shocked about the bad programming style) and you insert them in your great helios program? Would be the easier way, I think. And I have no comercial interests with my code. it's the hobby of us all and hopefully this way we all can get further by helping each other

have written an COM version for LINDEN of the program. So you can directly hang an Arduino uno with LCD 2x16 via USB on your computer and you will have a smooth running CMSP Display. If there is any interest, please contact me.

Hi all, found a very good prog from tacno here in this forum to export the cmsp display. Thanks to him this was finally possible for cockpit builders like me. No more screen copy things....... 'cause of having my own developed i2c-udp system to connect the "real switches" with the simulation, I decided to write my own prog to export the cmsp. I had the idea to write a program that does not do any mathematical recognition things but that learns how the display looks at every individual machine. So, you have to go through some kind of teaching process in which you tell the prog witch character is displayed at the moment. Just saving this, and next time the prog knows it on its own. The next days I'll write a little dokumentation for running the prog. Look at tacnos thread if you like, there I wrote a short disciption. For download please use the link. Have fun http://www.737ng-homecockpit.de

Hi, yes tried all of the things you mentioned. If you like, have a try with my program I wrote the last four days. Not perfect already but working quite well and fast. All you have to do is to install and then create an empty cmsp.txt file in a Folder c:\A10\. Changing IP and Port needs programm restart after saving. you only have to fill in the export positions in the upper left corner (from your monitor.lua) and then adjust the positions so that the catches are good to read. When you click start, for every new sign there will be a popup which asks for the right charakter displayed at the red marked position. When you switched all possible charakters for every position through, you won't see this popup any more. For the second row, also adjust the position of the same letter that your prog uses. Then, take the value displayed in the current value field and write it to the corresponding field on the right side. repeat this witch all possible lines and blank. Then, don't forget to save....and have fun. The UDP stream sends something like that: 1:first line;2:second line in period of Timer (300ms default) If you have any questions, just ask. Trying to write a short instruction file the next days. And here the .rar file with installation http://www.737ng-homecockpit.de

my cmsp export prog Hi, testet your cmsp software and it works pretty well. But it was quite heavy to get it working and it had lot of latency. So I wrote my own in vb. I worked with teaching the programm every possible sign on the run for every place on the CMSP display. So, running the program the first time you have to "teach" every sign in, but switching all signs through, you get all at one run. This makes for the "worst" one 35 possibilities and the values are individual to your PC. So no real and slow text recognition is needed and the prog runs through in ms. Just have to add the UDP support, not a big thing to do. When I finished, I will upload for testing....

Using and Donated! Thanks again for solving this problem!

tacno, this is a fine piece of software! got it working with my interface software over udp and works great! Thank you for that! Now I can finally throw out the monitor in the left console and fit in a LCD on i2c bus. Great work!

Hi, having problems running under Win7 64 bit. Get message stopped working. Can you give an advice? Thank you -- Found it, have to run it as administrator