During this "little" break I focused on developing MCP driver for PMDG 777. And fortunetly things went quite well for me. I will soon share some beta-version software that will allow you to take full control over 777 MCP. Just a photo preview for now.
Good guys from simworld invited me to try their Boeing 737 full real simulator. Lot of fun and an amazing experience for me. Let's hope mine will look similar in the near future :).
(left me, right Filip)
(vacating runway)
Big thanks to Peter Pieper, who helped me with extracting data from PMDG 777 SDK. Thereby I can read MCP values with Link2fs and send them via Virtual Serial Port (COM) to my hardware. Big step forward. Next thing is to collect all MCP displays, switches, and buttons. Hope it will be flyable soon.
Frameset is ready and the first two panels are actually mounted. Few knobs were painted, few should still be buy. The goood news is that Link2FS is working with PMDG T7 and I will use it to interface my cockpit. Look forward to make some "home-made" hardware instead of buying Arduino cards.
And of course some shots:
Things are slowly moving ahead, first panels finally arrived. They were develop by simworld, and I was impressed cause quality is very, very high.
It's always nice to see some progress but there's still a lot to do.
Enjoy some photos.
for more photos...
Making all electronic components by myself is the hardest part of my project. On the other hand, it gives you a lot of satisfaction while something seems to be working as you wish, and you know that this part is totally made by you. Well, I want to share some photos and video of prototyping xpndr for PMDG 777. Yes, this is only a prototype now, but it does work ! Unfortunately, there is no dedicated software for this plane yet, so I had to use jims link2fs. I dont want to tell that this is a bad software, but with T7 I cant get all data from FSX e.g. mcp altitude, v/s, autopilot hdg... shitty issue. I hope that guys from PMDG release SDK for this beauty soon. Anyway, this module is based on Arduino so far, but the final version will be running on dedicated AVR microcontroller. I will try to share more info about this as soon as it will be possible.
+short video
Overhead wing panel looks to be ready for cutting. Panel will be backlighted. It was hard to find any dimensions of overhead panel but I believe it will be pretty close to the real one.
The size of one panel :
W 184 mm, H 210 mm
