F18 UFC DIY

[photohap]

This is an awesome idea. I am currently building a button box for some other items, but this one looks like a good idea too. My question is how are you mapping the buttons?

[KewinSawicki]

This is an awesome idea. I am currently building a button box for some other items, but this one looks like a good idea too. My question is how are you mapping the buttons?

 

Hi bud. Once you have soldered the buttons and wires together and plug them into the circuit board it's done. It is then seen as a controller like any other so it's plug and play. You just go to map it like you would in DCS settings menu.

 

:)

[Cigar Bear]

I just finished my UFC build and my pics are posted at the end of Brun’s thread. I also mounted my MFD’s to it. I added 3d printed MFD toppers and printed MFD bases to make a complete unit. I used two arduino based controller boards, one from Bodner and the other I made myself from a $10 arduino micro board. The comm buttons are coded to the arduino micro, and work really well, other than the fact the buttons push to activate rather than pull...

 

CB

[Cigar Bear]

Here’s the pics from the thread...

[NobleSpoon]

I just went VR and am thinking of building the same solution . Any chance you could post or send the panel layout dimensions ?

 

I just started working on an MFD & UFC combo for use in VR. I'm using a 3 way toggle switch to apply modifiers so I can switch between left/right/center MFDs. It will be powered by a BBI-64. Just waiting on the hardware to arrive so I can start building.

 

 

The BBI is going to be detachable so I can swap it between any future button boxes I decide to make.

[Svsmokey]

Genius !

[Cigar Bear]

That looks like a very novel solution, I began my build with trying to adapt a 20 key keypad, but decided I needed something more robust.

 

CB