Memento10's Cockpit Build

I've now just about completed the indicator panel and wanted to share it with others. It's obviously not meant to be an exact replica of the real thing. The video shows the lamp test, getting shot down and some of the wiring.

There are actually 2 identical panels stacked ontop of each other.

I use OpenCockpits USBOut card to interface with the game. Thanks to Oakes and others for their help in figuring all this stuff out!

Nice! Do you have pictures how you put it together in steps? The front was very reflective I couldn't see well. Looks like one big acrylic sheet at the top, then probably another sheet for the letterings, and then one base plate for the LEDs? Would like to see the inside.

Thanks for sharing!

that would be cool to add to my pit

The front is made of a sheet of acrylic, then a printed transparency with all the text, then a sheet of white paper, then another sheet of acrylic to hold it all together. The photo below shows the backside where I used waterclear "superbright" led's. The problem I had was that these led's are very directional and the create bright spots on the indicator which doesn't look right. The translucent tape diffuses the led light enough to give the indicators a consistent brightness across the indicator. The tape is not to hold the led, they're soldered.

Very cool Memento impressive work!

Thanks for the steps. I've read that one way to diffuse LED light is to lightly sand it till it's frosted.

What I/O card are you using?

That will work

Thanks guys, the card I'm using is made by OpenCockpits. It's their USBOutput card which has been very simple and handles 64 Outputs.

I'm running 12 Volts through each output which runs 2 identical indicator panels. The leds have different forward Voltages so each 12 Volt line can have either 4 green, 6 amber or 6 red. Divide that by 2 since there are 2 indicator panels in series for 2 green, 3 amber or 3 red.

I'm actually planning on building a 2 seater variation of the BlackShark... like a Ka-52 but with the interior of a Ka-50. I know this is completely ficticious but I think would be fun to use with another person, and there's definitely enough to keep 2 people busy on most missions. So 1 person would focus on flying and the other on weapons.

What do you think?

Hi Memento.

Nice work, really impressive.

How did you make the boxes? can you share some draw? I was plannig to make somathing a little bit more laborious (using plexiglas and manual mill), but if build your box is less a mess, I'll think about it.

Jocman

Hi Memento. Great job. I am starting the wiring for my leds and I got a pair of opencockpit USB output cards. Would you share your programming (I suppose you used SIOC)?

Thanks

Thanks guys, happy to share as much as I can but I don't claim to be an expert on any of this stuff and this is my first attempt at building anything like this.

Here is the artwork I used for the Panels:

http://rapidshare.com/files/360026807/FinalIndPanelLeftOpt.pdf.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/360026808/FinalIndPanelRightOpt.pdf.html[/url]

As far as the SIOC, I installed Oakes files from his project:

http://code.google.com/p/dcsbsexport/updates/list

Then I added the code that would relate each lamp to the appropriate Sioc variable. I will upload that within the next couple of days... I'm just not on the computer that has that code right now.

My box design is from Rocketeer's suggestion but I just don't have the tools to cut all the individual acrylic boxes easily so I just tried using one sheet and it turned out fine:

http://www.f16simulator.nl/cautionpanel.pdf

Code to follow.

Here's a video of my progress so far. Still lots of work to do, panels, controls, indicators etc.

This is a 2 person mod of the Blackshark, will be original!

If this doesn't play... click on the 480 resolution in youtube frame.

Very cool! Do the seat lock in place when you move them into the forward position? I really like the idea of having those on tracks like that!

Very nice!

Hi Guys, with a toddler in the house and a baby on the way... my hobby is being neglected, time to sell my Opencockpit Cards. Here's a link with more details:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=1307953#post1307953