Regnad517 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 OK, long time coming but can finally start to document some of this. Big thanks to Ian, Hans, and others that have helped me tremendously with some of the coding. You guys kept me going!! This community is indeed special and appreciated by me. So, backstory. A friend of mine has gone through multiple setups and never was quite satisfied. The most recent was a 9 screen touchpanel setup fully run with helios. It was close but still wasn't right. Then we read here about DCS-Bios and it changed our world. Next thing we are purchasing a CNC Machine, bunch of arduinos, already had a 3d printer, etc... with the goal to build everything ourselves from scratch. My buddy is the engineer and I'm the computer nerd so we work well together. We decided to split the cockpit into 3 sections basically, left, center, and right running a master Mega for each So we are 90% done with the right panel. Some quick pics As you can see they are coming out beautifully. Right now they are just placed in there for pics. When I say from scratch, he even made his own PCB boards with the CNC machine. Front plates are white plastic painted black and then CNC engraved. Each individual section is run from a slave arduino such as ILS, Tacan, Caution Panel, etc... Here are some individuals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regnad517 Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) I will be adding code for each panel we used as well as I build this thread. Might help someone else and will at least be a backup for me:doh: I was told today actually that a few of the faceplates were actually purchased from pcflights.com so thought I would mention that. Edited January 29, 2018 by Regnad517 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrsteensen Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Looking great man! Keep it up! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk OpenHornet F/A-18C 1:1 SimPit Website :: DCS Thread Link :: Discord :: Github :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullant Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 That looks awesome, well done! Intel i7 13700K @ 5.3 GHz / ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-Plus / 64 Gb G.Skill DDR4-3600 / RTX 4090 / 2TB Kingston KC3000 NVME / Win 10 x64 Pro / Pimax Crystal / WINWING F/A-18 HOTAS A-10C, AJS-37, AV-8B, F-4E, F-5E, F-14, F-15E, F-16, F/A-18C, F-86F, FC3, Christen Eagle 2, FW190D-9, Mosquito, P-47D, P-51D, Spitfire, AH-64D, KA-50, UH-1H Combined Arms, WWII Asset Pack, China Assets Pack, Super Carrier, Falklands Assets Nevada, Normandy, Persian Gulf, The Channel, Syria, Mariana Islands, South Atlantic, Sinai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrustvector Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 my first words were JESUS CHRIST! man that looks good, and the fact your making it completely from scratch is totally awesome! cant believe how good they look, like better than shop bought. dam fine work guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansolo Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Really good looking work Sir :thumbup: Looking forward for more pictures on the process. Cheers Hans 132nd Virtual Wing homepage & 132nd Virtual Wing YouTube channel My DCS-BIOS sketches & Cockpit Album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regnad517 Posted March 17, 2018 Author Share Posted March 17, 2018 Haha, so due to some bad lag and hit or miss responsiveness, we scrapped the master/slave setup and decided to mount a USB hub in each console and then assigned the com ports accordingly. Took 17 com ports but seems to be much better than our master/slave setup. Having some 4K resolution issues at the moment so we are going to alter setup and run Helios from a separate machine. Will have some new pics and updates in the next weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavespawn Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Looks great! I’m about to put a CDU together myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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