Masters of the Air
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My Cougar might be serial... it's that old. I dunno, I guess step one is to find it and evaluate.
This made me curious about what it would take to make a guitar pedal with the stuff I already have. I use a lot of ESP32 WROOM boards. Something I haven't done with it yet, but it has Audio to Digital and Digital to Audio onboard and you only need 1 pin each. Low sampling rate & resolution, but it works. You can hook up external ADC/DAC and plug the output into a DSP to clean it up. Probably a 3-4 hour 3d print to make a small housing, you can draw it in tinkerCAD in 30 minutes. Power with a phone charger. You don't even need switch inputs, it can run a web server onboard and you can change settings with a phone or tablet. Or have switches and knobs and sliders. Or both.
Most effect code is simple, some is really complex. Depends. You can fit a shitload of effects on 1 board though. wah wah, tremolo, distortion, flanger, looper, compression, blah blah blah. -
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that isn't me... but it's kind of me.
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that looks nice!
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I've been looking for an excuse to buy these and build something. Motorized slide potentiometers. People into music production tend to like them.
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Do they make peripherals that use optical sensors instead of pots? Those would potentially never wear out and be extremely stable and consistent.
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They use MR or Hall sensors. It's contactless and determines position by measuring magnetic field strengths or field angles. Lasts basically forever.
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Sounds like an attempt to reinvent the wheel. Optical sensors work very well and have been used for years...
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It's not a reinvention. Hall Effect sensors are standard. They're in everything from xbox controllers to high end Virpl joysticks. They last forever, the mechanical bits centering the joysticks is what wears out.
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Re: the button box - I'd like to have a tiny joystick (4 way) that controlled the trim tabs for starters. Most of the other buttons would be HUD mode/radar control stuff.
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Re: the button box - I'd like to have a tiny joystick (4 way) that controlled the trim tabs for starters. Most of the other buttons would be HUD mode/radar control stuff.
My Virpil gear has two of those joysticks.
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2 axis analog sticks are $2 to $5. Usually also has a push-down-to-click button feature built in. Something bigger than looks like an RC controller stick, usually $20ish.
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Virpil is too expensive and also too bulky for me. I need stuff that just sits on the table and takes little space. Virpil stuff would be the ticket if you're building an actual dedicated flight simulator - like a big project, made of 2x4's and sturdy plywood, with everything mounted in a sit-down cockpit etc etc. That's cool if it's your thing, but it's not my thing. I don't have the time or space for that in my life right now.
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Thay should make a wireless joystick that you insert into your ass and control with clenches and squirms.
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like a big project, made of 2x4's and sturdy plywood, with everything mounted in a sit-down cockpit etc etc.
80/20 aluminum profile is where it's at.
My hobby is dumber than simulators though. I make shit people use to put on large scale, 2 day paintball games.
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Virpil is too expensive and also too bulky for me. I need stuff that just sits on the table and takes little space. Virpil stuff would be the ticket if you're building an actual dedicated flight simulator - like a big project, made of 2x4's and sturdy plywood, with everything mounted in a sit-down cockpit etc etc. That's cool if it's your thing, but it's not my thing. I don't have the time or space for that in my life right now.
It can sit on the desktop, or you can mount it with clampy things.
It is expensive though.
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It can sit on the desktop, or you can mount it with clampy things.
It is expensive though.
It's too high up on their base for a desk clamp, at least at desk level. You immediately have to redesign your space around controls in a big way. Not for me. It would require a dedicated build for me - like a sit down arcade machine - a full dedicated sim. I simply don't have room for that in my life right now.
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It's too high up on their base for a desk clamp, at least at desk level. You immediately have to redesign your space around controls in a big way. Not for me. It would require a dedicated build for me - like a sit down arcade machine - a full dedicated sim. I simply don't have room for that in my life right now.
Oh shut up and stop making excuses Slam, I'm doing my best to get you back flying damnit.
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Oh shut up and stop making excuses Slam, I'm doing my best to get you back flying damnit.
I've downsized a lot of my life - so I'm wary about going that way again.
So realistically, I need to downsize more stuff. I'm decent compared to where I was, but still need to do more. When I come out of this, I do see a future where I'd CHProduct an area and maybe add a homebrew USB button box to help out with the added complexity of a DCS World cockpit. I actually did like DCS World, but my PC is more than 10 years old and does need a major refresh/rebuild. It's all coming in due time.