Another Black Shark Pit project

Awesome work !!! :thumbup::thumbup:

Truly heroic project!

Congrats mate! :)

Thanks guys. Well, still a lot of work left:

- mounting and controlling leds

- find a way to control displays for UV26, weapon panel and PVI

- printing the labels for BIT leds and push buttons for alarms and ABRIS

- finishing some missing equipment like APU control and laser warning

- mounting the hood

- lot of fixing: rudder and stick need to be more tightened

- installing cockpit lighting

- some cable clean up

- improving fps!!

Great work ! Exactly what I have in mind for mine..Any chance of getting a link to Triggerhappy's drawings / diminsions? I can't find them any where..

Spetz, I think you'll find links if you wade through this thread:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=27270

Of course, you could probably narrow it down in there with the search function, but then you would be missing out on reading that thread. ;)

Spetz,

Triggerhappy's cockpit-drawings for download:

http://home.arcor.de/simpit/Downloads/Black_Shark/Download-Page/download-page.html

Sokol1

Note that I used my own dimensions for the right wall panel. I posted on this thread a file with all the dimensions for this part.

sure... but indeed you need a white wall on which to project... I can't...

so big TV could be financial interesting / triplehead...

 

I'm just curious about some tester feedback for that soluce... before to go...

I have a 100 inch image with only ten feet of throwable distance. I got over the room limitations by taking the "First surface Mirror" from an old rear projection TV and bouncing the image off it. I cant stress what a big deal a projector makes on gameplay and sit. awareness.

Its great to see the progress CrC, really wish I can afford some time in this hobby lately but now with a kid on the way looks like more ideas will be on the back burner.

For switches and I/O, have you looked a http://www.phidgets.com/ or perhaps E.P.I.C. (although not cheap)

Hello everyone and a very happy new year 2010. I wish we will see on this forum a lot of new pits and hopefully the SDK promised by DCS to the pit builders when they released BS one year ago. :cry:

I have been doing some small addition to my pit:

- added a hood

- added (but not connected yet) the working ejection handle

- added (but not wired) the LWS on the overhead panel

- added (but not wired) the APU panel on the left along with a side wood panel to support it and to protect the fuel handles and rotor brake.

- put the labels on every lights and buttons

- some clean up mods and fixing.

My collective is giving me headaches as I still haven't found a way to make it hold still when I released it (which makes flying difficult unless you got a third hand :joystick:). In addition, the pot of the collective is not very accurate.

I have to try to have touchpal to work on the right screen of the panel. But BSVP is working great on a secondary networked PC (not visible on pictures). I am eagerly waiting for some additional features on BSVP (such as displaying the bugs on radio alti and HSI, full screen capability in portrait mode, ..., I know it's work in progress anyway).

Now the pictures:

I would like to start to implement the led lighting (alarms,...) but we are still missing the SDK from DCS. This is a bit frustrating.

Ah, also I promised a short video, but it is really hard for me to fly and shoot the video. Plus, it is really hard to show the action on the switches AND to result in game at the same time. All the attempts so far I made to show this on video are not very interesting. I think I need some external help.

My collective is giving me headaches as I still haven't found a way to make it hold still when I released it (which makes flying difficult unless you got a third hand :joystick:). In addition, the pot of the collective is not very accurate.

I have to try to have touchpal to work on the right screen of the panel. But BSVP is working great on a secondary networked PC (not visible on pictures). I am eagerly waiting for some additional features on BSVP (such as displaying the bugs on radio alti and HSI, full screen capability in portrait mode, ..., I know it's work in progress anyway).

 

I would like to start to implement the led lighting (alarms,...) but we are still missing the SDK from DCS. This is a bit frustrating.

Your pit is an inspiration as always!

I had a similar problem with my collective. I solved it by extending the shaft past the pivot point (I used an old X45 throttle) and adding a counter weight. My only problem now is the collective settles a little right after releasing it. This wobble makes it a little difficult to settle in after changes but after that initial settle it stays put.

You should be able to extract all the information needed to do the leds now. That's how touchpal and BSVP get their data. Send me a PM maybe we can hook up over IM to see if I can't help you get started.

Guys,

I put together all the files I created for the layouts (got a few requests lately). These are scale 1:1 so they can also be used to get an idea of the dimensions of my pit.

I used the excellent freeware Inkscape for that.

Hope this help.

Plans.rar

Very Nice pIT man,

You need to take a video!!

WOW!

Very impressive.

Did you use rub on letters to label your switches?

No. I simply printed on thick paper, then put some mat varnished to protect. Once dry, cut the holes for the switches and stick the paper on the panel. The source files are in my previous post.

For the warning lights, I used color laser transparencies.

Boy nice work their.

Nice work, but requiring 9 BU0836X cards is pretty too much, Why not use X-keys Matrix board, or Halstorm card, or Opencockpit card?

I will probly try a X-keys my self.

I'll definitely let you guys know on the XKeys as I have the 128 encoder. I just haven't had a chance to make a matrix board and test it out yet. LOL I need to get busy as soon as I have the time!

Im looking forward on how you go with X-keys. since it's alot cheaper than paying 9 BU0836's about 75.00 USD each.

Well I haven't just not had a chance to wire up a matrix board, I haven't had a chance to learn HOW to wire a matrix board either. Just need that ever elusive free time. Then I have to split the time between freestlye BMX riding..........

I use the X-Keys and it's easy to use. The only downside is the installation of a diode on each switch. So, order you a batch of 1N4148 or 1N914 diodes ;)

Nice work, but requiring 9 BU0836X cards is pretty too much, Why not use X-keys Matrix board, or Halstorm card, or Opencockpit card?

Well, several reasons:

- At that time, I wasn't feeling like learning SIOC

- I wanted a modular enough pit to be able to move it for LAN / Expo

- Kinda like USB. Plug and play.

- Don't like programming.

But anyway, now I am in the "outputs" construction phase, and I finaly concluded that IO cards is the way to go in order to see my hundreds of leds light up. So I have to learn SIOC after all. :cry:

IO cards on the way, as well as ribbon cable and resistors. Got a lot of soldering work for the leds. Hope I can find some time to do all this.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Where to find the hardware and software??

Hey man, great job on the pit, just wondering what software you used to display the instruments on the left side of the panel, and where did you get the switchs and dials from?

Thanks,

Spuds