Introducing the DFDT Cockpit Project

There are many great pits here but I rank yours as my all-time favorite. :)

There are many great pits here but I rank yours as my all-time favorite. :)

Thanks!

DCS Su27 is in the near future, so than it will be a complete rebuild!

At last working switches (a lot) :)

Really amazing mate the quality of the fount panel is great and using really gauges is crazy any idea how much this would set someone back sorry if been said before there's a lot of pages just check the first few.

Anyway amazing bro.

Unfortunately the stick is on hold for now.

HPO has stopped working on it, we very much regret that.

If we ever continue work on the stick we will let you know.

 

Regards,

 

Wasserfall

Falcon BMS is about to have a Su27 and I was thinking about HPO's thread I read a while back.

Sad to see the project came to a halt. Hope he is Ok.

Please contact me if this project continues. I definitely want in on the production run.

Best wishes

AV8R

:joystick:

Falcon BMS is about to have a Su27 and I was thinking about HPO's thread I read a while back.

Sad to see the project came to a halt. Hope he is Ok.

 

Please contact me if this project continues. I definitely want in on the production run.

 

Best wishes

 

AV8R

:joystick:

A flyable su27 In BMS? And with working switches would be great!

Anyway, we didn,t had contact with HPO for a long time now sadly.

If anything changes we will let you know

Regards

Time to dig up the thread again :)

I'm starting work on a new instrument, the countermeasures panel.

Currently I have ordered all the electronics parts, and I hope to have a working prototype somewhere in February.

I'm using an Arduino Uno board as controller for it, and since this panel will only use up 6 I/O ports on the Arduino, the plan is to build one or two more panels on the same controller when this one is finished.

For this panel the following steps need to be done:

- Design and build the electonic circuit

- Write the firmware for the Arduino

- Alter the export.lua to collect the necessary data and send the correct signals to the sim

- [optional] Write a control application which can communicate with the arduino and DCS

- Design and build the panel front

wow great....keep up

Looks really good.

That's awesome, I love the way the wear and tear makes it look just like the real Russian stuff.

Just FYI, that last picture is the one I'm working from, it's not a picture of my finished panel (though I hope to make something that looks like it ;) )

The software for the countermeasures panel is progressing well.

Today I started work on the panel design itself.

Here is a first impression of an evening's work :)

There is a small error in the design above, the holes for the стоп and контр buttons are spaced too far apart.

But still I'm quite happy with the result so far, as this is my very first project in Sketchup :)

Currently working on the software for the panel.

The lua script and Arduino code are pretty much done, but still need to be tested.

The bridge application is also in a final stage, I hope to release this to the community as a universal tool to communicate with the Arduino from DCS.

This application simply transfers the data sent from DCS (via UDP) to the Arduino (via RS232) and vice versa.

Hey Joe, when are you releasing this? I was writing my own bridge, but got side tracked couple months ago. Would love to get this to jump start my projects!

Thanks.

Currently working on the software for the panel.

The lua script and Arduino code are pretty much done, but still need to be tested.

The bridge application is also in a final stage, I hope to release this to the community as a universal tool to communicate with the Arduino from DCS.

 

 

This application simply transfers the data sent from DCS (via UDP) to the Arduino (via RS232) and vice versa.

Hey recoilfx,

I'm releasing it when it works correctly.

Tonight I had the first opportunity to test it, and there are still a couple of bugs I need to fix.

Things that already work as expected:

- It detects a connected Arduino at startup

- It starts a UDP listener on the specified port (10310 in my case)

- It forwards all data received over UDP to the Arduino

- It receives data from the Arduino

Things that don't work correctly yet:

- The data from the Arduino isn't read in one piece

- The data from the Arduino isn't forwarded to DCS

- The application crashes when there is a lot of traffic (maybe the serial connection is too slow, could be a buffer that fills up, need to check this)

Here is a screenshot of the first successful test:

Because i needed a bigger screen i chose a 32Inch Led tv from Samsung that does the job perfectly

 

 

A close up of the Hud, which i really like to have functioning, but as far as i know it's impossible in Fc2

i made it in such a way that i can upgrade it in the future (Fc3?)

 

 

On this pic you can see the LOVP working, the waypoints on the "crt" are still pictures on a photo frame,

i have several images from radar scope etc.

 

 

Finally, an overview were you can see some of the frame i made, painted in yellow aircraft primer. The ejectionseat (k36d) is still without headrest and is in basic form, but all in time!!

 

 

 

Hope you like it!!

 

Wasserfall

Would you share the draws that you use for the HUD?

Thanks!

Joe Kurr....did you release this software yet?

I haven't had time to work on it lately, but I expect to continue work this week.

When finished, I will post it here.

Great Joe. Keep up the good work.

Any news regarding the DCS arduino bridge??? sounds VERY promising to me : )

Joe, would you please PM me, when you got it working? this could be THE solition for my ka50 project. thanks a lot for all your efforts!

cheers,

HiLok

Finally had time to finish a first usable version of my DCS-Arduino bridge.

It will have some quirks, and might throw some unhandled exceptions, but these will be solved in the next version.

Functionality is simple:

- Anything that is sent from DCS (export.lua) is sent as-is to the Arduino;

- Anything that is sent from the Arduino is sent as-is to DCS.

This means that you're completely free in designing a communications protocol which suits your needs.

The screenshot below was made using a very simple protocol to control the state of five LEDs and read five buttons.

DcsArduinoBridge.zip

Seen this beautiful pit live at the FSWeekend, and had a chat with beerhunter and wasserfall, nice guys :)

Joe, your pit is one of the reasons I decided to do a pit as well. A lot of your pics of your pit are no longer available so just wondering if you can re post them. With the update to the SU-27 about to happen it would be great to see them again.

Cheers

Joe, your pit is one of the reasons I decided to do a pit as well. A lot of your pics of your pit are no longer available so just wondering if you can re post them. With the update to the SU-27 about to happen it would be great to see them again.

Cheers

When i have some spare time i try to repost the pics, don't know why they disappeared.

Cheers,

Wasserfall

Just discovered that Imageshack screwed up ALL pics:(, i think because it's a paid service now.

Many thanks Imageshack!!

Please upload all the images of your Su-27 cockpit to another image hosting site.

Imageshack ****ed me up too...