Thick8 Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 Hi Guys, they're getting the CNC machine hooked up at the school where I teach. so I was thinking about making a couple of panels. Has anyone used this type of interface board? http://www.desktopaviator.com/Products/Model_2230/index.htm It looks pretty much plug and play. I have no desire to spend a bunch of time setting up several Arduino boards if I can use one 31 button board for several panel inputs. what do you think? John 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
agrasyuk Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 For simple input device go for gpwiz40. All this pulsing while maybe usefull for FSX is not needed for DCS IMHO. Anton. My pit build thread . Simple and cheap UFC project
Thick8 Posted December 11, 2013 Author Posted December 11, 2013 I noticed that you have to choose between 4 possible boards. I assume that means you can ony hook up a total of 4. Is this correct? Does Windows see it as a joystick so I can assign functions in the DCS options? I don't think I will need hat and axis functions as I have both pedals and a TM:WH. Can these functions be remapped as digital outputs? So many questions... John 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
agrasyuk Posted December 11, 2013 Posted December 11, 2013 Up to 4 will connect without any conflict. Past that I'm not sure if any issues will arize with enumerating several USB devices with the same name. Yes windows sees these as joysticks. Gpwiz does not offer hat nor analog axis input, it does have 8 of its digital inputs arranged as 4 quasi axis. I wrote a small autohotkey script to capture movement of these inputs and translate into keystrokes. As is with any pure joystick device nothing can be remapped as outputs . Anton. My pit build thread . Simple and cheap UFC project
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