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 →
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 →