Oakes Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 (edited) Ok, here is the first prototype of my weapons panel. The back is made from 6mm acrylic which will be painted black, the front overlay is printed on a laser printer and then laminated for durability. No backlighting as this point. The switches, displays and LED's are connected to an IOCard MasterCard + DisplayCardII. Todo: Make the final front overlay (note the mismatch between the holes and LEDs etc on the pictures below) and glue it to the acrylic. Paint the acrylic. Rewire the the displays for a neater look (notice the wires sticking out of the top). For the next panel I'll definitively make a custom PCB instead of the current spaghetti approach :) Make the round safety covers on a lathe(one red,one black) for the jettison switches. Connect all the switches. /Oakes Some pictures: The acrylic + the overlay. Testing the first display Testing the displays Testing the full panel. Edited October 1, 2008 by Oakes Update with new pictures 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurofor Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Great work! Very inspiring! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boberro Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Nice!!! Reminder: Fighter pilots make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY! :D | Also to be remembered: FRENCH TANKS HAVE ONE GEAR FORWARD AND FIVE BACKWARD :D ಠ_ಠ ツ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walternowi Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 WOW! Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 ASUS Sabertooth X79 4 x 4GB Crucial Ballistix VLP PC3-12800 ASUS Cerberus GTX 1070 Ti 8 Gb Seasonic Platinum 860W Thrustmaster Cougar Uber II Nxt CH Products PT/TQ/MFP Slaw Pedals TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 very nice :) No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deigs Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 That looks mad. Very keen to see this completed. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 161 Squadron Australia's DCS Community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-sulan- Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Awesome!! Looks great! :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.S Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 awesome.. i solved the interface issue with a very efficient mutli functional easy to reach and use, all in one board.. http://www.priz24.de/images/ingram/2020800000073440291.jpg :music_whistling::megalol: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAT_101st Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 good woork. Home built PC Win 10 Pro 64bit, MB ASUS Z170 WS, 6700K, EVGA 1080Ti Hybrid, 32GB DDR4 3200, Thermaltake 120x360 RAD, Custom built A-10C sim pit, TM WARTHOG HOTAS, Cougar MFD's, 3D printed UFC and Saitek rudders. HTC VIVE VR. https://digitalcombatmercenaries.enjin.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triggerhappy69 Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Damn fine work Oakes.. Wish I had seen this before making my post.. "But (504)Brewber said they were'nt friendly.. So I took'em out.!" [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stswrebel Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 What you guys are doing with these control boards are great, I'm going to have to learn how to get these working with the sims. I know I can make the panels, I jsut don't know how to import and export the data to the panel. The above has been based loosely upon my own opinions. :pilotfly: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakes Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 Thank you all for the kind words. Here are some more pictures with the all switches mounted + a new overlay. I'm not completely happy about the jettison safety covers, they are to long I think. Also two small demo vids can be found here: /Oakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 That looks awsome... No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurofor Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Amazing! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlejohn1959 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 awesome stuff . are you gonna have em for sale? where? looks real good . :thumbup::thumbup: cheers . [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S77th-konkussion Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 sick.. [sIGPIC]http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=43337&d=1287169113[/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakes Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 are you gonna have em for sale?Sorry littlejohn, these are handmade (no CNC) and I don't have any plans to manufacture these commercially. I've attached the panel file below so you can make your own. I've used InkScape (http://www.inkscape.org/) for the design. weapons_1_00.zip /Oakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlejohn1959 Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Sorry littlejohn, these are handmade (no CNC) and I don't have any plans to manufacture these commercially. I've attached the panel file below so you can make your own. I've used InkScape (http://www.inkscape.org/) for the design. [ATTACH]19733[/ATTACH] /Oakes thats way over my head there mate . thanks all the same though . you have fun with your new toy there . give yaself a pat on the back mate . its a fantastic job .:thumbup::thumbup: cheers from here . [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33rd_Sniper Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Great Work! :thumbup: What kind of interface do you use between opencockpits (sioc?) and DCS:BS? -Is it the SIOC KeyboardEmulator for inputs towards BS? How do you get data from BS to drive your OC-outputs? Thank you very much! Sniper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team Groove Posted November 23, 2008 ED Team Share Posted November 23, 2008 Awesome work, you guys are gifted :) Our Forum Rules: http://forums.eagle.ru/rules.php#en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_smile Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Great work! Keep it up and soon you'll have full Ka-50 cockpit!) It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice © Scooter Intel Core i7 8700K, Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5, 32Gb DDR4 CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 3200MHz, Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080Ti Extreme, VKB Gunfighter MkII + TM HOTAS Warthog + TM MFD Panels, TrackIR5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakes Posted November 24, 2008 Author Share Posted November 24, 2008 Great Work! :thumbup: What kind of interface do you use between opencockpits (sioc?) and DCS:BS? -Is it the SIOC KeyboardEmulator for inputs towards BS? How do you get data from BS to drive your OC-outputs? Thank you very much! Sniper Hi Right now I use the SIOC KeyboardEmulator for inputs, which works kinda OK for simple commands. Hopefully the PCIP will allow us to send switch position directly to the sim i.e. "put switch 52 to position 4" or similar. Today with key-emulator since most keyboard commands only allow you to toggle switches you have to make sure that the physical switches are in the correct position when you start the sim or you will be out of sync. For outputs, I have no idea at this point how this is going to work, again well see what the PCIP contains I guess. For me the ideal solution would of course be if ED implemented the IOCP protocol into BS *Hint* *Hint* :music_whistling: And again, thank you all for the kind words of encouragement. /Oakes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33rd_Sniper Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Thanks for your answers! I'm relieved that we have the same problems. :smilewink: Maybe we can work together... My mailaddress is in your PM. Sniper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketeer Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Hi Oakes, excellent work! Did you use the SOIC to preset those values for the 7 segments when you flick those toggles? I wonder what kind of controls you have right now without the PCIP on outputs. My A10C cockpit thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakes Posted November 26, 2008 Author Share Posted November 26, 2008 Hi Oakes, excellent work! Did you use the SOIC to preset those values for the 7 segments when you flick those toggles? I wonder what kind of controls you have right now without the PCIP on outputs. Yep, currently I have no feedback from the sim. I just wanted to show that when we get the PCIP I can get the info up on the displays etc. /Oakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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