On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Harry Campigli wrote: > Robertto, > > Another way is to drop a Microchip Pic in your com box, if you use one of > the smaller 18f 40 pin versions you have heaps of analog and bidirectional > digital io pins, and construction wise you only need add an xtal and an > rs232 or Ethernet chip to the Pic. Power it with 5v from your pc supply if > you like. Easy to breadbord with off the shelf matrix board and wire wrap > wire. > > You can code it in C and knock up (clone) a custom io routine to compile > into FG which reads and writes direct to the property tree and talk to it > on serial or network. > > I run my sim hardware which is all genuine gutted radios and Boeing panels > etc with pics in this way. > > You are welcome to my source code for the FG IO and the pics. You will need > to complie FG, and the pic xcompiler is windows based not linux but seems to > run ok in an emulator ok. >
Harry, the big advantage with the Arduino platform is ease of programming. You don't need any special hardware to program the ATMega328 as it's got a protected bootloader on it that allows you to download the sketches (that's what Arduino programs are called) right to the board over a serial cable. That and Arduino Shields can really expand on what you can do. >From 64 channel digital I/O Shields (the Centipede Shield) to an Ethernet Shield with a TCP/IP stack on it. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
