Curtis Olson wrote: > There are bazillions of little embedded boards with digital outputs. I > don't know if they can support small lamps or if you'd need to drive a > relay (?) but they can usually turn led's on and off. But if there is a > nice/cheap/compact solution to reading lots of analog inputs, lots of > switch inputs, driving lots of lamp outputs, and driving at least a few > analog outputs, you are well on our way to building a spiffy cockpit > .... and there are already solutions for this available (Epic has been > around for a long time and there are probably many others) but the small > size and nice price of this unit caught my eye ...
As I said in my previous email, I'm working with some atmega microcontrollers, the ones I'm playing with don't have hardware USB support, but there's a library available to provide USB with a couple of the input pins using hardware interrupts, but you could also interface over serial if you wanted to. Some of the example projects look interesting: http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html As an intro to this sort of thing I can highly recommend an arduino board - I've got one as a small portable environment for trying out various crazy interfacing methods (it's currently set up with 2 servos providing ASI and VSI indicators on one of my computers). Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
