Upgrading Flight Sim PC Case – CoolerMaster NR600
Since upgrading the GPU, my flightsim PC runs quite hot as it is quite cramped inside. I decided to upgrade the casing to one with better airflow. So much for thinking my PCs would...
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Since upgrading the GPU, my flightsim PC runs quite hot as it is quite cramped inside. I decided to upgrade the casing to one with better airflow. So much for thinking my PCs would...
I was fortunate to have traveled a lot when I was young, as my dad worked for British Airways. Most of our holidays were spent visiting wherever British Airways flew. The bulk of these...
There appears to be quite a bit of updates going on with the ExtPlane plugin source code in the last few months, and it turned out some of these are needed to fix some...
Finally … after a long hard battle … my Pi-Xplane-FMC-CDU is now working with the Zibo 737. You will need to upgrade your ExtPlane plugin and also the software on the Pi FMC. Update...
This is my fully 3D printed design for a Dual Concentric Rotary Encoder with Push Button. It’s useful for making the knobs for flight-sim radio panels, where there is an outer knob to...
I’ve been stumped for the last few weeks with getting my Raspberry Pi FMC to work with Zibo’s 737. I used the ExtPlane plugin to interface my code on the Pi with the simulator,...
This is a guide on how to install my Pi X-Plane FMC CDU Software, for use with the Pi FMC CDU Printed Circuit Board (PCB) I designed. Thanks to all the testers who provided...
To connect the 737 FMC CDU PCB board to my X-Plane flight simulator, I used a Raspberry Pi 2. Almost any Pi model will do, provided it has the full 40-pin GPIO connector (i.e....
I spent the last long weekend rewriting the FMC CDU display code in C++ and SDL2 … redrawing time is much more snappy than before (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1mQiPr0KUI). For someone coming from an age where...
My new ride!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXeAQO4Y6N8&ab_channel=danklaue This is the first 64-bit compatible Carenado release: the A36 Bonanza for X-Plane 9 & 10. It features an Aspen EFD1000 electronic flight display, which is 10… This post was originally...