Meterials & pieces used during this project

In this article, all meterials used during this project are listed with their costs.

MIP Meterials

• MIP Support Panels       (different size wooden plaques)      - no cost
• MIP Paint
• Support Panels metal fixing parts
• Panel Coating
• Glare Shield Coating
• 
  

Seats

• Two old car seats                - no cost
• Textile to coat

Yoke System

• wooden construction for the support of Yoke           - no cost
• plastic tube + adapter                                              - 1,00 €
• cables from Yoke to controle card> 
• 2 Trim switches 
• 1 Autopilot disengage switch

Throttle System - (non-motorized)

• 2 Linear Pot for engines       (from an old joystick)           -   1,00 €
• 2 Reverse switches
• Throttle body MDF(10x120)
• Illuminations

Having knowledge about ports

I collect some information about manipulation of parallel and serial ports since I will need some more options like feedbacks or more connections.
Eventhough using those ports are old fashion, i found it is still usefull for some special effects.


some exaples of using ports with PPJoy utility.
http://www.etheli.com/simulator/simulator.html

Hands on

As of  13 April I started to craft. I found many different types of woods and collected them. Seriously I made the calculations for the cuttings and the desing of the cockpit shell.
I will give you details in the construction page.

Please follow up...

Two seats found for my cockpit

I found two old car seats last week. They were thrown away by one of my neighbor and I saw them luckily while passing by with my car. And for the captain seat it has an arm support as well. They were washed with pressurized water and cleaned totally. Of course I started to look for a textile like boing type seats.

Here is a pic from the seats:

Cables & wiring details

Parallel port joystick configuration for sim:
http://www.etheli.com/simulator/simulator.html
http://www2.burg-halle.de/~schwenke/parport.html
http://sim.tomsrc.com/page.php?17                            parallel & serial port emulation
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystick/pc_joystick.html#connector     very good connection diagrams
http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/usb_game12/index.php
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ih/doc/par/
http://airborn.com.au/serial/rs232.html




USB connection hacking:
http://www.simprojects.nl/usb_joystick_hacking.htm

Gameport connections:
http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/GameportPCMidi_pinout.shtml
http://www.simprojects.nl/joystick_connection.htm
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystick/pc_circuits.html#sb_solver
http://vvvv.org/documentation/howto-gameport


control servo motors:
http://principialabs.com/joystick-control-of-a-servo      with C++
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php?topic=12660.0         with Visual Basic code
http://www.aaroncake.net/circuits/stepper.asp
http://www.imagesco.com/articles/picservo/04.html

All types of PC control details:
http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_input.shtml
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~trp/pinouts.html
http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Main_Page

-- use for tests:

http://circuitzoo.com/2011/02/27/electronics/atari-to-pc-joystick-adapter-circuit-diagram

http://circuitzoo.com/2010/10/18/electronics/guitar-tone-control-circuit-board-design

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/RS-232_Connections

http://www.circuit-projects.com/audio-circuits/
http://www.sonelec-musique.com/electronique_realisations_interface_midi_001.html
http://www.abcelectronique.com/

some pieces to buy:
http://www.homecinema-fr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29881029

Collecting Information

Hi again,
You may think that I only do copy paste in this blog, but actually what I want to do is to collect all the best prectices / solutions and then to start the construction without any doubt.
Of course I will give my solutions and construction details in videos or as documents.
Keep following up !

Videos that I like

Cockpit construction 767ER