Hi everybody. Some weeks ago, I dug thru my spare-parts-box and found a small assembly of an 8 channel 10 bit A/D converter using a LTC1090 and a few other parts. I dug a bit further and out came some pots, knobs, switches, some pieces of wood, a few screews and a bit of wire. I glued it all together, wrote a device driver for linux, hacked a xml file and suddenly had a neat power quadrant to use with flightgear's piston twins connected to the unused serial port. It has: 6 levers (axis?): 2 black for throttle, 2 blue for prop, 2 red for mixture 2 wheels for elevator and rudder trim 1 switch for gear up/down 2 switches for flaps down/up
js_demo sees it like this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joystick 0: "LTC1090 Joystick" Joystick 1 not detected Joystick 2 not detected Joystick 3 not detected Joystick 4 not detected Joystick 5 not detected Joystick 6 not detected Joystick 7 not detected +--------------------JS.0----------------------+ | Btns Ax:0 Ax:1 Ax:2 Ax:3 Ax:4 Ax:5 Ax:6 Ax:7 | +----------------------------------------------+ | 0004 +0.2 +0.2 -0.6 +0.3 -0.1 -0.6 -0.0 -0.1 | If anyone here on the list (or is there a hardware-builder list?) is interested in rebuilding this little toy, I am happy to put all I know to a little web site. One should be able to purchase all parts for around 40 EUR. Oh - by the way: Thanks everybody for making FlightGear! I use it a lot to keep current in flying ifr procedures... Cheers, Torsten _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
