The next step in my “Arduino career” was to play around with potentiometers. I needed (for now): Cabin vent Carb heater Primer (Future) Defroster (Maybe) Cabin heat 1. Cabin vent It’s just a matter of a few months until summer arrives and I’m going to need a fan to keep my from sweating my a** … Read more →
This is not an in-depth guide at all, and also I’m skipping a bit ahead compared to the previous posts that I’ve made on my flight sim build, but I wanted to write this while it was still somewhat fresh in my memory so I can better relay the things I’ve learned so you don’t … Read more →
To make your home cockpit feel more authentic, you need some placards with warnings etc. This would probably be easier and prettier with some kind of laser cutter / CNC thingy, but I don’t have that. So I have to make do with what I have, and that’s a consumer-grade Ender 3 S1 3D printer. … Read more →
As a virtual pilot, aka a flight simmer, I figured it would be fun to have a pilots logbook. So I made a simplified logbook in a spreadsheet and printed on a landscape oriented A4 piece of paper to keep in my clipboard so I can fill it out after each “serious” flight, usually on … Read more →
I found a 6mm MDF board which I cut a big square hole in, to fit a 27″ widescreen display with Air Manager instruments. For now, I’m just playing around with the MDF. I’ll be making holes here and there, while I learn how to connect everything (Arduino, I’m looking at you…). So this MDF … Read more →
Feature image: Screenshot from Russ Barlow on YouTube In the previous update I shared some thoughts as to why I was building a home cockpit, you can read that here. Today I will be focusing on which monitors to use for the home cockpit I’ll be building. My inspiration came from The Sim Simma on … Read more →
Feature image: Piper Comanche PA24 from A2A Simulations This series is a slight bit outside of the usual scope of TechPatio, but nevertheless, it’s technology related, it comes around electronics (such as Arduino) and gaming (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020). The target audience for this series is small. It’s a niche. There’s not that many home … Read more →