Thick8 Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 Been looking for a solution to be able to activate all the cockpit switches. Some are left click, some right, some middle, some drag, some scroll. You all know. I mounted this pad in front of my throttle and am able to active everything. It’s great. So now I can use voice commands for dialogue interactions and the pad for physical interactions. All of my posted work, ideas and contributions are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0,) which precludes commercial use but encourages sharing and building on for non-commercial purposes, ©John Muldoon
Todd1215 Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 Been looking for a solution to be able to activate all the cockpit switches. Some are left click, some right, some middle, some drag, some scroll. You all know. I mounted this pad in front of my throttle and am able to active everything. It’s great. So now I can use voice commands for dialogue interactions and the pad for physical interactions. Interesting. Is that in lue of using a trackball or mouse? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 MB: B450M Pro4 RAM: 16Gb DDR4 SSD: 500GB GPU: MSI GTX 1070 8GB
cichlidfan Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 Interesting. I have one of those in my 'old PC stuff storage' area. It has been years since it was hooked up. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Joker69 Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 I’m looking for the same solution.. I think to fix it just down of my monitor. In this way I have my hands on HOTAS and when I’ve got to move one switch I put my hand on it and I interact with the up/down position of the switch. My question is: it is possible to interact correctly with rotating knobs just like the wheel of the mouse? Or it’s not precise to do this? If not.. have You any other touch pad suggestion? Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/139168989452694/about/ ASUS ROG - TM Hotas Warthog - TM Hotas Cougar - TM F-18 Grip - Oculus Rift S - Track IR 5
BigDuke6ixx Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 I’m looking for the same solution.. I think to fix it just down of my monitor. In this way I have my hands on HOTAS and when I’ve got to move one switch I put my hand on it and I interact with the up/down position of the switch. My question is: it is possible to interact correctly with rotating knobs just like the wheel of the mouse? Or it’s not precise to do this? If not.. have You any other touch pad suggestion? Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk You should be able to roll the mouse wheel with the correct input. The t650 is now very hard to find for a good price but there are other more affordable pads.
Joker69 Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 Copy! If it’s possibile to have any suggestion I’ll try them surely.. I would like to control cockpit only with HOTAS and clicking / moving the cockpit controls without touching my keyboard. I would like to use keyboard only for cameras, wiew, settings and so on.. Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/139168989452694/about/ ASUS ROG - TM Hotas Warthog - TM Hotas Cougar - TM F-18 Grip - Oculus Rift S - Track IR 5
Thick8 Posted April 29, 2018 Author Posted April 29, 2018 It mounted to the throttle very easily with a piece of threaded rod and a few Velcro pads. Pics All of my posted work, ideas and contributions are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0,) which precludes commercial use but encourages sharing and building on for non-commercial purposes, ©John Muldoon
Joker69 Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 It mounted to the throttle very easily with a piece of threaded rod and a few Velcro pads. Pics Wonderfull solution.. You have everything under control.. I think I’ll do something like this for my cockpit.. Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/139168989452694/about/ ASUS ROG - TM Hotas Warthog - TM Hotas Cougar - TM F-18 Grip - Oculus Rift S - Track IR 5
Todd1215 Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 Wonderfull solution.. You have everything under control.. I think I’ll do something like this for my cockpit.. Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk What kind of Chair is that? Are all those attachment points made into the chair? I like it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 MB: B450M Pro4 RAM: 16Gb DDR4 SSD: 500GB GPU: MSI GTX 1070 8GB
Buckeye Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 I have two of these mounted in the places one would normally mount MFD’s, works great for VR interaction with the dashboard and right/left AUX panels. Feels natural and the tactile click from the T650 is a nice touch. Not perfect by any means but it’s a nice temporary solution to hold me over as I start work on my more robust VR cockpit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Rig: SimLab P1X Chassis | Tianhang Base PRO + Tianhang F-16 Grip w/ OTTO Buttons | Custom Throttletek F/A-18C Throttle w/ Hall Sensors + OTTO switches and buttons | Slaw Device RX Viper Pedals w/ Damper Tactile: G-Belt | 2x BK LFE + 1x BK Concert | 2x TST-429 | 1x BST-300EX | 2x BST-1 | 6x 40W Exciters | 2x NX3000D | 2x EPQ304 PC/VR: Somnium VR1 Visionary | 4090 | 12700K
Thick8 Posted April 30, 2018 Author Posted April 30, 2018 What kind of Chair is that? Are all those attachment points made into the chair? I like it. It’s 2 chairs. They were going to trash 2 expensive fully articulated chairs because they “broke”. So I took them and crafted them into 1 VR chair. Other than a couple of bolts everything is used from the original chairs. All of my posted work, ideas and contributions are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0,) which precludes commercial use but encourages sharing and building on for non-commercial purposes, ©John Muldoon
raptorman0 Posted May 16, 2018 Posted May 16, 2018 It mounted to the throttle very easily with a piece of threaded rod and a few Velcro pads. Pics At risk of being the thick one, how did you bend that stuff and get it screwed in the holes at each end. its an awesome idea and I want to emulate it
Thick8 Posted May 18, 2018 Author Posted May 18, 2018 (edited) The 1/4” rod is secured to the throttle through the 2 mounting holes on the front of the base plate with a nut on top and one ont the bottom. The 2 nuts are tightened against the bas plate between them. I bent the two top 90 degree bends first by drilling a hole through a 2x4 then inserting the rod into the hole and bending it . The 2x4 will give you a nice clean bend. Once the two top bens were in place forming a square horseshoe shape I drilled a second hole in the 2x4 so I could stick both ends of the horseshoe through the 2 holes at the same time and did a 30 degree(ish) bend so that both sides matched. A little tweaking and cutting the two ends so they were equal length and viola. Edited May 18, 2018 by Thick8 All of my posted work, ideas and contributions are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0,) which precludes commercial use but encourages sharing and building on for non-commercial purposes, ©John Muldoon
raptorman0 Posted May 18, 2018 Posted May 18, 2018 The 1/4” rod is secured to the throttle through the 2 mounting holes on the front of the base plate with a nut on top and one ont the bottom. The 2 nuts are tightened against the bas plate between them. I bent the two top 90 degree bends first by drilling a hole through a 2x4 then inserting the rod into the hole and bending it . The 2x4 will give you a nice clean bend. Once the two top bens were in place forming a square horseshoe shape I drilled a second hole in the 2x4 so I could stick both ends of the horseshoe through the 2 holes at the same time and did a 30 degree(ish) bend so that both sides matched. A little tweaking and cutting the two ends so they were equal length and viola. That's great thanks very much. Really impressive using the track pad just need to make up the mount. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
BlacleyCole Posted May 22, 2018 Posted May 22, 2018 I have one of these in storage from back when my Mac mini worked as i recall it needed a solid surface behind it for the mouse clicks to work how did you get around this? BlackeyCole 20years usaf XP-11. Dcs 2.5OB Acer predator laptop/ i7 7720, 2.4ghz, 32 gb ddr4 ram, 500gb ssd,1tb hdd,nvidia 1080 8gb vram New FlightSim Blog at https://blackeysblog.wordpress.com. Go visit it and leave me feedback and or comments so I can make it better. A new post every Friday.
VirusAM Posted May 22, 2018 Posted May 22, 2018 I am looking for it since 3 years when i broke mine...but it seems impossible to find R7-5800X3D 64GB RTX-4090 LG-38GN950 N/A Realsimulator FFSB MKII Ultra, VKB Stecs Max, Winwing F-16EX Throttle, Winwing Orion (Skywalker) Pedals, Razer Tartarus V2 SpeedMaster Flight Seat, JetSeat
Thick8 Posted May 22, 2018 Author Posted May 22, 2018 I found this one on eBay for under $80. All of my posted work, ideas and contributions are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0,) which precludes commercial use but encourages sharing and building on for non-commercial purposes, ©John Muldoon
jayr7720 Posted November 30, 2023 Posted November 30, 2023 Nice ideia, trackball might serve me well to look around... i had trohble adapting to head tracking device.
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