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Hello, I need some help with hooking up a 6 digit 7 segment display to a Arduino Nano. Since I'm pretty incompetent at this I'm having trouble finding the correct info. First question! I've hooked up "Dio, SCK, RCK" to pins D10-12 on my Nano, is that correct? 5V and GND are hooked up to those pins. Second question. The display is using a 74HC595 Driver chip, what information do I need? I'm guessing the datasheet? I'm completly lost on this, I've found some sketches but I've not found any with 6 digits. If anyone would point me in the right direction I would be very grateful! I'm going to use it as the Viggens CK37 display, so that is step two... Regards Robin

AKAN is the gunpods, don't remember the actual designation and ARAK is rockets. Will check later after work

Only external gunpods, you'll have to check the manual which other weapons they're compatible with

Fantastic job, one of the best builds! Makes me want to start a M2kC build too ;)

It's still EA, but it's available in the regular installation, don't need open alpha/beta. The Huey is great to, but if you already have the Mi8 then I would go with the Viggen as it seems that you would like it!

It depends on what you want out of it, I love them both. The Mirage can do more stuff, but the Viggen is fun and challenging and have a smaller learning curve if you don't want to "go deep". I get good preformance out of both in VR with a 4770k and 980, Mirage a little better.

I concur, great job!

Thanks again, very useful info! Those 5 conductor cables seem nice, will try that out. Will definitely use MMjoy2, maybe even try out shift registers as that cuts down on wires alot. Need to improve on my electronics skills though :) Cheers!

Thanks guys, great and straight forward info! Will order a couple of Pro Micro and Leonardo's and try it out, can probably get away with <4 USB connections then. If I string a couple of micros in I2C, do I need different resistors between each one of them also? ( Pardon my crappy "electr-english" :) )

Thanks for the answer! How many USB ports are you using? Optimal would be one usb from each side and one from the MIP. I have a powered hub, but the connectors add up pretty quickly...

Hello, I've been avoiding arduinos for as long as possible, since I hate programming, but now it's time to try it out atleast! I've been reading up for a while, but I'm not any wiser on which arduino's to use and exactly how. So! I'd like to use a nano or micro on each panel, use minimal wiring and as few USB connectors as possible, so i2c seems to be the way to go? If so, should the master be a bigger arduino, and then use smaller ones as slaves? Do I need to hook up 5V to each slaved unit? If a panel need more i/o than the arduino have, should I use multiple arduinos, or are there any other way other than matrix to extend that number, expansionboards etc.? I might use a couple LED's, a couple of displays (8 digit osram), perhaps some smaller oled screen too. Other than that, toggleswitches, rotary encoders/switches and maybe a few pots as axis. I'm making a "multirole" simpit, so I won't use DCS BIOS, only as a regular USB joystick. Alot of text that's non-specific, but the "big question" is what is the best way to use arduinos , and which one to use, when you have lots of switches and some displays. Regards Robin

Nice, great job! Looks really neat and clean, some highres pics on the panels would be awesome!

Have you tried "funkyfranky"'s mod? https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=181720 I haven't checked after AFK, but alot of others are there, it's great!

Done, Thank you!

I'm have issues with both the normal version and the beta, the seat works when I test it in the editor, but nothing happens in-game. I use a USB headset, both regular and Oculus Rift, I also tried to use the 3.5mm on the jetseat but it was the same. I have tacview installed if that makes any difference. I did try to reinstall the non-beta, but I'm not sure I did it correctly. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Been a while since I've used it. Regards Robin

It works really well, Big thanks to Einherjer for this!

Any progress Einherjer? Would love to print on if it works. Cheers

This might help https://ocul.us/compat-tool

Great job, that separation looks awesome!

Great job! Mind sharing the design later? Would be a perfect buddy seat at home!

I'd guess that it follows DZUS standard, but I'm not sure. Scale CrashO's pic with these measurements and it will probably be pretty close. You'll get the length of the panel by counting "DZUS holes" too, so you will be able to get the correct dzus dimensions atleast. http://mycockpit.org/tutorials/Panelbuildingfocussedondimensions.pdf

I'll try it, will print it later this week

As always, impressive work, outstanding!

Thanks guys!

Boltz, what green plastic did you use on the EW panel, for the Osram displays? Having a hard time finding it here in Sweden. Cheers!