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Some nice pictures here of the $1000 Throttletek replica: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3262485 I'd suggest you make your plans so that they can accommodate the TM Warthog throttle, Virpil T-50, or VKB TECS.

Do you use dual extruder or just pause and change?

Awesome! STL's + BoM would be doubly awesome.

He was mentioning that DCS-BIOS had issues with the parking brake rotate command...

Do you think PLA could work at 1.5mm to match the 1/16" aluminium plate of the real panels? Then you could add LEDs and switches to that and then a 6mm (or 1/4") printed or milled/engraved acrylic plate on top. What infill percentage are you using on these? And to repeat the top question on everybody's mind; when do you think we can start getting our grubby hands on those excellent .stl's of yours?

The grip is surplus from a RAF Tornado, I believe he states.

Yeah, definitely sell it to someone who wants to refurbish, especially the throttle if you have it.

That looks very useful for angles, but I don't see any scale reference?

DCS-BIOS is AFAIK the closest you get to plug&play.

LynxDK is working on a for-sale hornet UFC, DDI, panels and the other parts, see https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=216683 or his site and instagram. Here's Brun's UFC, in the form of an stl file that you can 3d print or pay someone to print for you, as well as a bill of materials for switches etc. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=218874 Jrsteensen et al. are working on full open source plans if you'd rather build yourself. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=200124

Nice, but how's the noise from those 40mm's?

And here he goes, posting even more CAD porn... think of the children, would ya!? :-)

DCS has built-in duplication of the MFD's, you just render them on a scecond monitor (or off screen) by editing a .lua inputting the coordinates to start the render. It's what is normally used with Helios and a secondary, directly attached monitor.

Could you post this kind of description for all the ABSIS variants? Would be convenient to know exactly how they differ from e.g. tekkx's boards.

Is this a DCS-specific implementation or does the raspberry screen show up as a directly connected screen would?

Note: Not actually force sensing. The analog axes work by measuring the distance to the keycap, so you are limited by the short throw of the key.

Did I miss you sharing the .STL's or CAD files or is that something that is upcoming? I'd love to be able to modify this system for my own pit, and I wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel unnecessarily.

Was it 0603 metric or imperial? What are you currently going for? Any pictures of the soldered boards you'd like to share?

Most impressive. Do you have an ACES II to go with it?

Might be a bit late, but here's a museum source for the dimensions. https://digitaltmuseum.se/011023012039/datapanel Length: 205mm (8.071") Width: 125mm (4.921") Height: 180mm (7.087") Which doesn't sound like the Dzus standard to me.

Depends on your preferences. I find OpenSCAD nice, though it's programming-like interface is a love it/hate it divider.

Thank you. I guess I'll walk before I try to fly, doing a DCS-BIOS and a DirectInput implementation separately first. I wonder if there is anything fundamentally stopping me from putting in an extra arduino slave and having the DCS-BIOS master optionally send the control states to that over RS-485 rather than (or as well as) to the computer directly. The DirectInput slave (a Leonardo, perhaps?) would then run MMJOY or similar and relay that to the computer over USB.

Does anyone know a way to have a DCS-BIOS system also (or instead) show up as one or more Directinput devices? I'd like to build out my pit using a master/slave system but also be able to use the panels outside of DCS. I'd also like to avoid using an USB connection for each Arduino.

Hand-soldering your own 16-segment displays, while certainly impressive, is by no means a widespread method. I suspect many builders eschew displays because of VR.

Sweet! Time to dust off the 3d printers.