Gremlin's A-10

[Gremlin77]

no, I didn't...............the only thing that is rubber now is the skin of my hands......weird sh... these casting resins. sometimes it hardens sometimes not..and this with the same amount of hardener. I quit..... :-)

[cichlidfan]

I've worked with harder acrylic type casting resins but I think they might be easier since you are going for a more rigid cure. Rubber sounds like a PITA and apparently messy! ;)

 

Good luck with it. :thumbup:

[Rockwulf]

This Work is more than words can say.

Good Luck and I hope you'll keep us updated

 

kind regards

[WannaBeGnome]

Is this project still alive? I am very interested in this.

[Gremlin77]

yes it is, only very busy at the moment. will send pictures soon of the small steps I made. Sorry for that!

[Gremlin77]

little update

 

Okay, have some things installed. Ejection seat and finished right front console. also installed Electronic base plate for right console. Left console is finished and working.

 

Still long way to go.... and I need a new photo machine

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 7, 2013 by Gremlin77

[HornetUK]

VHF radio panel

 

So, after hard work and help from Gadrok(thanx again) for the Preset Numbers my VHF AM radio is full operable. I used Opencockpit cards for the 7-segments exporting the values over UDP and for the Dials I used Gray encoders connected to Arcaze board. Works fine for me, but have to redesign a bit, cause the Presets have two digits.......going to change......F....

 

love your radio panel, is there any chance in you tellming me how your made it?

[Gremlin77]

oh, this is a very old version with opencockpit and arcaze board...

 

The present state of project is my own interface bus system which drives switches rotaries and 7-segment.

 

Look at older posts, I think I described there how to connect DCS with opencockpit.

[nobrot]

I just love these threads with lots of pics.. looks like its coming along nicely!

[HornetUK]

I don't suppose that you are up for makig some money making some displays?

[Gremlin77]

sorry, don't have the time for that 'cause of business. Perhaps when I am retired and I have the time ;-) just have to wait about 25 years from now on

[HornetUK]

thanks anyway

[mhe]

Excuse me while I wipe the drool of my keyboard...

[rajdary]

Wow, excellent inmersión i suppose! the best Project i have seen!

[Sceptre]

Just incredible. Really great.

 

I don't care what it cost, I would much rather own this than be a PPL in a Cessna.

 

And once you've built the sim you only have to pay for electricity which you pay anyway, being a PPL you still have to pay to fly

 

plus A-10s are cooler than cessenas :)

[Maximus_Lazarus]

dude, give that video a proper name ! (the walkaround vid on youtube)

 

"Craziest sim pit in the world" or something like that.

[Gremlin77]

Hi Guys,

 

sorry for beeing absent for such a long time. Work caught my life.......

 

But I hope that I will be able to show you some progress on my pit the next days.

 

I have ordered an Oculus Rift DK2 a few weeks ago. Now waiting for my baby, got my hands on a DK1.

 

So I thought to mysefl, wouldn't it be great to use this hot thing with my Flight simulator????

 

But I came across the same problem you all will probably think off: I have spent many hours building up a real cockpit, but with that Rift on I cannot see the damn thing.

 

After thinking some days about it, I came to the result, that I should be possible to add two cams to the rift and mix the cam pic with the DCS view. And let me say: it works!!!!!

Step by step:

1: I have two DCS outside views with motion tracking of the Rift (in my case of TrackIR) one for right and one for left eye

 

2: I have a cam View for left and a cam view for right eye

 

3: I take the cam views an let a nice little piece of software I wrote in c# calculate all blue coloured parts of the picture to transparent. (Like a bluebox in television)

 

4. I put the calculated cam pics over the DCS view. Now I have a pic with cam seeing DCS through the transparent parts.

 

5: Taking the combined views for every eye an apply the rift distortion to it

 

6: Send the whole sh.. to the rift and.......smile

 

 

Now I began hanging a nice blue curtain around my cockpit and voila: I see my real cockpit and the DCS view in full stereoscopic 3D in the rift.

 

When I finished this up (bigger curtain is on shipping), I send pictures :-)

 

 

Hope you will like it!

Edited August 12, 2014 by Gremlin77

[cichlidfan]

Sounds extremely cool!!!

 

Looking forward to pics.

 

:thumbup:

[Capt Zeen]

thats something i want to see! nice idea!

[Abburo]

Your ideea and the results are just awesome.

 

Now, I am not trying to be sarcastic on your project but on this ideea that is walking arround since OR beginings: should I look on virtualised toilet while I am going to use it ? :) :)

[Sabre-TLA]

That's the way to do it! Some of the complaints of OR is that they can't see their switches. What you are proposing is the best of both worlds! Awesome! :-)

[Hansolo]

Nice update Gremlin :thumbup: Looking forward to seeing some pictures :smilewink:

 

Cheers

Hans

[Gremlin77]

Hi all,

 

so now I have finished the first steps:

 

The two pics show my simple setup for chroma keying. Just a quick one, without removing all the twinkles etc.

 

And here ist the "calculatet" result of the camera picture:

 

 

I will give this setup a change to more perfectionism..... :thumbup:

[Panthro]

I had the same issue when considering the Oculus so I decided to go CastAR.

 

I figure I could even do my MFCD displays with the CastAR.

[Gremlin77]

Redesigned the electronic / Software

 

Hi all,

 

Gone a long time since my last post. But I did lot of things.

 

So I now finished all the panel work on my cockpit including redesigning it to the DCSBios software. It's in my opinion the best method to use arduinos with the DCS Software, and, by the way, much better than my badly written c# programs :-)

 

I just made some changes on the Arduino-Software-Part of DCSBios to use my I2C bus system and I divided the whole cockpit into Blocks, so I now use 5 Arduinos connected via Ethernet-Shield.

This is how one Block looks like (here one arduino with 5 MCP23016 on the Bus) Each MCP23016 has 16 I/O pins and you can use up to 8 controllers in the Bus, this makes 128 I/Os for one arduino.

 

 

Will send some pics of the whole cockpit soon.

Edited May 24, 2015 by Gremlin77