Obutto Console project

Absolutely beautiful! Damn shame you don't live near me so I could rent some time on the equipment ;)

I finished the Caution Box! It WORKS :thumbup:

I changed the design a little. It is now in this order-

3mm MDF LED panel > 3mm MDF Spacer > 3mm MDF Spacer > 3mm Acrylic text panel > 1.5mm Acrylic frame panel

Here it is broken down-

Here is the MDF LED panel. The screws are the panel mounts for the Phidgets 64-

The text panel is a 3mm Transparent Green Acrylic Sheet. I painted one side with matte black then reverse engraved the text into it.

Here is the rear side of it-

The result is what looks like a gloss jet black piece of plastic from the front.

In the first photo above it is the bottom left panel.

And once it is back lit-

I tried it as is but the hot spots in the text was terrible. So i cut a whole heap of these to diffuse the LED's a bit-

Just dropped them in-

Bolted it all together-

And the result is fantastic. This picture doesn't do it justice. Absolutely no bleed between each indicator. I'll get a video up soon.

I'm happy :D

WOW...great job man !

Hi romeokilo,

I have a question. How do you interface the LCD panel that you took from a rear cam view kit? They're not usually VGA are they?

I haven't sorted that out yet, but I have seen others do it before.

Something similar to this should work-

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=390704454856&alt=web

I hope...

what, and use composite video connection?

I couldn't do that for the signal loss.

I'll give it a shot. If it's untenable ill go this route-

http://r.ebay.com/5ERe5H

Romeo,

This is absolutely amazing. I have an Obutto Revolution, and I was looking to do something very similar, except that I am using MDF to create my consoles. I love how this is turning out, and to be honest I am quite jealous. I will be keeping up with this project for sure. Youve already given me tons of ideas, however most I lack the equipment or knowledge to do myself. Great work!!! :thumbup:

wow......just wow.

Are you planning on selling any of this stuff in the future mate ?? :joystick:

Well it's been a while since I have been on here. Changed jobs, moved house and I have a new son on the way- but I am finally around to unpacking the pit and getting back into it. :thumbup:

A few changes have been made.

Major one- the triple monitors are gone (sold today!) and will soon be replaced with a projector.

The small 19 inch monitor will remain as a glass cockpit once i work out a mounting mechanism for the now 'half' Obutto cockpit.

I am currently designing a small glare shield to go on top of it with fire handles, master caution button and a few switches. Maybe a UFC on top later on.

Things I've done this week-

Landing gear and AHCP panel view from the rear.

The gear handle mechanism in place. Still prototyping that.

The lighting circuit for it. Changed things up- I'm now using three LEDs per resistor in series rather than three in parallel. Benefits are much less soldering/wiring runs, however the back lighting is now slightly uneven. After running some experiments i realized that due to the acrylic spacer panels I use the unevenness is not even noticeable when the panel is all together.

All together-

I also started using vinyl wrap on the rear. It holds the LEDs in place without any gluing required, stops light bleeding from the rear and also insulates the circuit to prevent it shorting on any bolts/switches. Plus makes it look much more professional. Win win.

LEDs from the front-

Spacer panel on-

Top panels on-

UHF back lighting

wow......just wow.

 

Are you planning on selling any of this stuff in the future mate ?? :joystick:

I have thought about it. I'm certainly not going to open a business, but since i have the cutter and the files it seems like a good idea to do a few runs if people are interested. Before I look into that I'll get my pit complete to work out all the issues- so it may happen but will be a long time away.

Looks fantastic but won't it be a problem if you need to change an LED having to peel back the vinyl wrap? I'd be worried it would pull the entire wiring and LED array up with it.

Very nice.

Looks fantastic but won't it be a problem if you need to change an LED having to peel back the vinyl wrap? I'd be worried it would pull the entire wiring and LED array up with it.

I've already removed some to fix some minor issues and it was not a problem.

The LEDs fit so tightly that it does take some force to remove them. Plus the fact that I've used solid core wire makes it quite strong.

The vinyl peels of easily. :thumbup:

I've finished most of the panels now.

Only one I haven't done is the CMSP- waiting to pick a suitable display and mess around with arduino and DCS-Bios.

Here is what it looks like at the moment. Sorry about the dark photos- I was running out of daylight.

And here is something else I'm playing around with. My custom 'master caution and fire' panel will hit the inside of the rubbish bin. Functions will be moved to the glare shield and I haven't decided what will takes its place yet- most likely the NMSP.

And how it is going?

Could you Reupload your pics for this thread? I have a VolairSim and would like some ideas on how to integrate panels with it.

And how it is going?

This project was retired. See this thread for it replacement

Could you Reupload your pics for this thread? I have a VolairSim and would like some ideas on how to integrate panels with it.

I just uploaded them to a Flickr album for you

That was really nice of you to load the pic's up. Thank you so much. Impressive too.

No problem at all.

Just be careful though because once you start you may not be able to stop.

What started as this-

Is now this-

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