DIY Dual Concentric Rotary Encoders with Push Button
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...
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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...
It’s Mail Time! 😃 I received some questions regarding the 737 FMC CDU design I posted earlier. I’ve decided to answer them in a post as the questioner suggested, in case others have...
First attempt at replicating the 737 FMC CDU Display. Looks okay, but suffers from a really slow page refresh — featuring an inadvertent but really cool looking The Matrix” effect! Oh well … as...
I decided to re-purpose the IKEA LACK coffee table into an enclosure for my 3D printer. It’s a well known hack that when stacked, among other things, the LACK is the perfect size for...
I spent the weekend building some new local scenery for the Flight Sim. I used: ortho4xp This uses digital elevation models and satellite imagery to rebuild the underlying base of the flight simulator world....
Finally completed my KLIA scenery for X-Plane. Well it took me a lot longer than I thought — about 4 months while doing a big work project also — but while most of...
So there I was minding my own business driving down the NKVE and getting off at the Damansara exit when suddenly — together with two cars in front of me — I had to...
*Creative Destruction: The Home Server is dead! Long Live the Home Server!*I recently had bad sectors on two disks of a RAID5 array on my home server. With a lot of hacking of “mdadm”...
Saw my first smash and grab today. As I was turning into my housing area at around 5pm, in rear view mirror I saw a motorcyclist next to a myvi at the traffic lights...
“Well, after struggling for a year and if your second year salary is still RMB 2,000, then that means you have not grown as a person. You should be really ashamed of yourself. Do...