What have you done for your simulator today?

[jfuenmayor]

Well guys, for a change, I am back after a rather tumultuous year, not that I got sick or anything, just many changes in the business, including the EHR company that I have used for 11 years going belly up, and having to migrate 34000+ records. So what I have done for my sim today? well, I fired it up, and it worked !!.
I hope to be able to make it to WF this year, if all goes okay.

JF

[bernard S]

I managed to source this grey thing pictured and copy it so i have two yellow things

[bernard S]

more things

[Joe Lavery]

You building your own airport Bernard? 

[FredK]

You building your own airport Bernard? 

The mystery of the "thingies" continues!

Fred K

[MistyBlue]

Pretty sure Bernard's motto is "He who dies with the mostest cool thingies wins!"  I've seen what he's up to...and I officially quit

[bernard S]

for the wild thing

[bernard S]

got this thing to brk those things so i can do my thing

[sagrada737]

Looks like a new building is going up!  Those rocks seem like a challenge for that little tractor...

Don't forget the Heli Pad...

[bernard S]

make it work :-)

[MistyBlue]

Don't forget the Heli Pad...

Don't give him ideas.  He might just do it!

[bernard S]

dont you lot worry about the size of my thing its seems to be working.. emm   helipad.... actully why not ?

[bernard S]

introduction for tiki bar maybe ? 19 more loads of the sandy stuff

[bernard S]

beach front

[bernard S]

more of same thing for the thing

[ame]

I 3D printed a DIN rail mount for a Raspberry Pi to hold it in place inside a pedestal.

I downloaded the files from Thingiverse and printed them directly. Came out great.

[bernard S]

now thats cool

[ame]

Here's the link to the files:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2492974

The Pi mounting holes are M3 in the model, but the actual hole size is M2.5. I filled the holes with some glue and bits of filament and re-drilled them to accept the smaller screws. I expect others just drill out the Pi holes to M3, but that's a bit 

I would also have liked some holes for the Pi LEDs. I'm into light pipes, and DIN rail 

Although I've already printed it I loaded the STL files into OpenSCAD and reduced the mounting boss hole size to M2.5, and added two holes for the LEDs. I hadn't done that before, so I wanted to experiment and see how easy/hard it was. I haven't printed this one, but I'm  happy to send the file to anyone who wants it.

[ame]

I've also been working on a new switch design, which I have posted about in another thread. It's a technique of using evenly spaced sensors and a tailored activation pattern to detect the position of an input (usually a rotating actuator). It works best with optical sensors, but I've been experimenting with switches. Five switches can be used to detect 30 rotation positions (a resolution of 12°).

[sagrada737]

Nice looking 3D printed assembly.  3D printing is a great resource for our Sim projects.  Looking forward to how the embedded Bosses work out.

Mike

[blueskydriver]

Amazingly, I finally got a complete flight in on MSFS2020 this evening; flew from KCVG to KMSN. Albeit, it wasn't in my B737NG sim; instead, it was in a King Air 350.

After I went ahead and purchased a new set of CH Products (Yoke, Throttles and Pedal combo), and mounted it all too my desk, I found that desktop flying is actually pretty fun. Yes, desktop flying!

Plus, I figure this is the best way too learn MSFS2020 without worrying about all the complexities of the sim itself. And, it'll give me time to just setup a quick flight, as well as review things as they come out.

Overall, it's like learning FSX after using FS2004, you just have to try everything....

John

[bernard S]

for the thing that makes the big things go whoose  catapult :-)

[sagrada737]

Hey Bernard...   It's time for the Floor Plan...

[sagrada737]

Be sure to put a large linear Drain in from of the Main Door.  Looks like the entry way slopes toward the structure.

Embedded electrical/data conduit in the floor?

[RayS]

Work continues on "dual-Booting" the Beech 1900D sim.

Originally it was based entirely on the X-Plane platform, but have been working for a few months to enable it to fly MSFS2020.

There's still some residual functionality that needs to be converted over, but as of right now, I can fly on either sim platform.

The supporting computers (There are 5) can boot into using XP or 2020 using a simple batch file on startup.