cefs Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 I did a similar thing with the Level D 767 CDU with FSX and used a 32 bit microcontroller at 80 mhz. A complete screen refresh was clearly visible but fast enough to not really matter. The main reason it worked was because the output from the sim identified individual values that changed in each cdu page, so if a single value changed you would only have to rewrite a small part of the screen, there was no screen buffer, just a font in program memory. So it would be possible if you could just identify any values that have changed in a page and update those, but a complete screen refresh when a new page was selected would be painfully slow.
rajdary Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 only one，maybe making more in the future:smilewink: excellent work! If you decide to make more, id be really intrested Phanteks Enthoo Evolv Tempered Glass, Asus ROG Maximus IX Hero, Intel i7 7700K @ 4.8, Corsair HX 1000i, Nzxt Kraken 62, 32gb DDR4 3000Mhz Corsair Dominator Platinum, Nvme SSD Samsung 960 Evo 1Tb, Asus Strix OC 1080ti, Philips 43" 4K Monitor + 2 x Dell 24" U2414H, Warthog HOTAS, Track IR 5, Obutto R3volution, Buttkicker Gamer 2, MFG Crosswind pedals, Occulus Rift CV1, Windows 10 Pro.
agrasyuk Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) How about using 3.5" LCD available for arduino? In theory it should be just as good if not better? (by better I mean - you don't have to use VGA). To add: Please don't take the above as discouragement. I would advise acquiring Uno or any other arduino board (if you don't have already) and one of those LCD modules. These are very inexpensive and If anything it will be a nice exersize for you installing libraries and practicing some coding. Plenty of examples out there. PS, you often see those displaying good quality photo. This accomplished by loading the gif file from attached SD card. and still takes seconds - almost useless for our purposes. I used 3.5LCD,and with VGA output's controller board,5''LCD is too large,The HDMI output is not necessary,VGA output is enough. This is quite obvious. Reason I mentioned the larger module is to demonstrate the strange disparity in price Edited February 25, 2015 by agrasyuk Anton. My pit build thread . Simple and cheap UFC project
ramzessii Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Anton & Ian, Thank you both for that info. I was not aware about the fact that it might/will be slow. I don't have UNO just yet, what I got is 2560 but sooner or later I'll get either another mega or UNO when I'll run short on free pins. I have opencockpits CDU and that has VGA screen ... I am not impressed with and I thought that arduino with an lcd would perform better. As for my theory - I based it on practicality thinking that with arduino you only have one usb lead (or ethernet) where in case of vga one will need that and a video cable. Besides using VGA I have to make a viewport for CDU screen don't I? That will affect frames slightly. Where with arduino I thought it's just a case of using dcs-bios to export cdu content line by line and that's it - easy and quick.
Marcin_B Posted March 18, 2016 Posted March 18, 2016 3.5''LCD and board: not Arduino + DCS-BIOS,I used DCS Easy Monitor ConfiguratorV2.0 and helios . Hi I have a question - do You plate with LCD connected directly to the PC?:helpsmilie:
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