My home-made panels

[Mark Hurst]

I designed a couple of panels people might like to see. These are built with an acrylic sandwich and graphics printed on paper with an inkjet printer. They can be backlit although I have yet to do that part!

[iwik]

Nice work Mark,
Been looking at doing something like this but wondered how black the background would be.
Les

[Mark Hurst]

Nice work Mark,
Been looking at doing something like this but wondered how black the background would be.

Thanks. My initial experiments with a laser printer were disastrous (probably cos it's a cheap laser) but with bright white paper and inkjet it is phenomenal. I use HP 100gsm paper and use two copies to get the density for back-lighting. If you don't want to back-light, one page works really well. You can use acetates but I found I needed to layer three or more to get the density. That makes it hard to get crisp graphics and it makes the sandwich thicker so you start to approach the limits for installing some of the components.

[Mark Hurst]

If anyone's interested in building these panels for themselves, check out the following links...

Building the GPS+ panel
Building the Autopilot+ panel
No programming required

You can also visit the forum for more info. Or just go straight to the eBook!

[Trevor Hale]

Mark, I have watched your video's before but your profile pic doesn't look like you in the video.  I never put 2 and 2 together. but either way.  You have a nice way of doing things.

Trev

[Mark Hurst]

Mark, I have watched your video's before but your profile pic doesn't look like you in the video

Thanks Trevor, that was a twenty-years-younger me! Perhaps I will change my avatar

[jackpilot]

No prob to show your mileage  Mark, very few ladies on the Forum. 

And anyway, experienced pilots have an edge! 

Jack