P1IC
04-19-2009, 10:44 AM
I'm taking this forum at its word. It's billed as being for the purposes of posting the latest info about our simpits. So here goes.
Don't hold your breath - I have no pics. All I have is the result of successful tests. Here's what I'm doing.
I'm building a simpit for the LVLD 767, with my own design and build of interface hardware and software, using an off-the-shelf USB module to communicate with FSUIPC and FSCONV. That module is connected to my interface board based on PICs.
So I wrote a basic interface routine for the buffering PIC, and used C++ to liaise between that software and FSUIPC through the USB module. My first test was to see if I could simply use a toggle switch hanging off the prototyping board to operate the taxi light switch on the C172, and to get back from the 172 a signal showing that the taxi light is on, which would light up a LED on my prototype board.
It worked! You have no idea how totally chuffed I am! :D :D Especially since I had already made the assumption that, one way or another, I would make this work, and had shelled out a fair bit on switches, pots, indicators etc to populate the simpit.
Yes, I know, not quite in the same league as all the OpenCockpit stuff and other commercial products, yet, but I'll get there! ;)
Don't hold your breath - I have no pics. All I have is the result of successful tests. Here's what I'm doing.
I'm building a simpit for the LVLD 767, with my own design and build of interface hardware and software, using an off-the-shelf USB module to communicate with FSUIPC and FSCONV. That module is connected to my interface board based on PICs.
So I wrote a basic interface routine for the buffering PIC, and used C++ to liaise between that software and FSUIPC through the USB module. My first test was to see if I could simply use a toggle switch hanging off the prototyping board to operate the taxi light switch on the C172, and to get back from the 172 a signal showing that the taxi light is on, which would light up a LED on my prototype board.
It worked! You have no idea how totally chuffed I am! :D :D Especially since I had already made the assumption that, one way or another, I would make this work, and had shelled out a fair bit on switches, pots, indicators etc to populate the simpit.
Yes, I know, not quite in the same league as all the OpenCockpit stuff and other commercial products, yet, but I'll get there! ;)