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Message #28504

apachebcn

Posts: 3

My idea is to make the portable tower, with the most useful and most used instruments, functional, without it being precisely the imitation of any real airplane panel.
For the following reasons:
- I don't want to have a plane inside my house.
- I will never be inside the cabin of a Boeing or an Airbus, which is the reason for having an imitation.
- I am not extremely good at DIY nor can I afford to buy an expensive commercial product.
- I'm married (you know what I mean and what it means to try to build paraphernalia for myself inside the house)

Why do this project?
Because I have seen that the most friendly thing for msfs2020 is the gamepad, and the throttle is not there.
But I have had problems with the gamepad, such as accidentally engaging reverse while at 20 thousand feet, when downshifting with push "B".
Adjusting the autopilot parameters as well as adjusting the barometer is also not comfortable.

My project consists of 3 PCB boards.
- PcbMain: To mount the mega 2560 and the connectors for the other boards and devices.
- PcbLeds: To manage the LEDs through 3 74HC595 chips that will manipulate the PcbMain with the 3 pins for communication, and 1 pin for brightness.
- PcbKeys: Manages the buttons through 2 74HC165 chips, and 3 rotary encoders, and the 2 throttle potentiometers. (This pcb has holes to hold some leds, but the leds come from PcbLeds)

PcbMain:

PcbKeys:

PcbLeds:

Mounting:

[Last edited by apachebcn, 2024-03-01 03:46]

2024-02-29 23:42