Bendix Nav/Com KX-165A project

[DanTheSasquatch]

EDIT: Haha, thought you were talking to me lol. I probably just looked pretty dumb

[Steve1970]

Hi William,

How is your project going? Do you have an update?

Thanks

Steve

[Kerbo]

Hi William,

How is your project going? Do you have an update?

Thanks

Steve

Hi Steve,
I wish I had an update but my hobbies have not had much attention lately. The parts did arrive and I have the displays on a breadboard but that is as far as I have gotten. The good news is I have a lot of days off this month. The bad news is the wife has been working diligently on her honey-do list.

Stay tuned

[Kerbo]

I need to buy a bigger breadboard. The layout is just too cramped using multiple smaller breadboards.

[Steve1970]

I need to buy a bigger breadboard. The layout is just too cramped using multiple smaller breadboards.

Looking good, do you plan to make this USB plub and play?

[Kerbo]

Looking good, do you plan to make this USB plub and play?

Yes, the radio will be USB and interfaced to FSX by my usbSimCentral program.

I did get a large breadboard and have started laying out my prototype circuit. Someday I may actually get a display lit up.

[Kerbo]

Last night I finished hooking up the displays and validated my design for multiplexing the 20 digits. I think the next step will be designing some PCBs so I can start refining the firmware. Here is my current schematic design. I have only had one encoder working so far so this might not be the final design.

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[Steve1970]

you are one clever guy, wish I knew how all this PIC stuff works. Where did you learn how all this works? So far I have only played with SIOC coding and the open cockpits card.

Steve.

[Kerbo]

you are one clever guy, wish I knew how all this PIC stuff works. Where did you learn how all this works? So far I have only played with SIOC coding and the open cockpits card.

Steve.

Thanks for the kind words. I got something very similar to this when I was about 10 and have been fiddling with electronics ever since. I am self taught so can't hold a candle to the real EE's out there but I have a lot of fun playing.

[pilotwannabe]

I agree with Steve. What PCB design package are you using? I've got DIP Trace free version. There seem to be hardly any components I want to use in the libraries.