$50 Overhead - B737 Home Cockpit
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- I am making my own overhead. It is made from a Illustrator file printed on a very large sticker/foil (1x1,2 meters) and then cut into smaller pieces that are put on pieces of foamalux/plexiglas.
Cost of printing the sticker aprox. $50. Then add cost for switches (Depending on what you got laying around)
The Adobe Illustartor-file can be downloaded from my blog. buildaboeing.co...
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Excellent work, this is a great alternativ to those fucking redicculus prices on cockpit instruments. Keep it up
Great idea using a piece of foam like this. I'll probably use it for my little build since I'm looking for something cheap and quick. I just got my Arduino to talk with FSX so now I just need to build the panels.
Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to make this overhead and then posting the pdf for it as well!
It has a Yam damper... I hate damp yams! Love the panel though :)
Thank you so much! I always thought: Oh dear, want to have a homr cockpit but its so expensive! Now I know: Be creative! Everything is cheap!
Excellent effort and truly inspiring for those on a budget!
Thanks very much for the download Peter. Got my print today.
You can build your own expansion cards for the pokeys leds. You need one cheap chip called the ULN 2803 for every 8 leds. The chip switches the ground side of the led so you run your power to all the leds and then one wire back to the chip.
Always interesting to see the creativity in motion
Very cool. Thanks for sharing the PDFs and AI Files. :-)
Very nice and very inexpensive, notice I didn't say cheap...as it looks very good for being home made...Nice job !
wow... this is looking amazing for being only printed... you could maybe do even lighting switches if you get a switch for 2 in/outputs and do a led circuit. Then put a Led behind the display for the switch and light it up D:
With the led issue, you could add a separate transistor and power source for the leds.
Hey , you can buy the knobs easy from ebay.On ebay they called
Davies 1510 and they are different coulers and white whith a black line for only 5 cent more
It's amazing man. You are clever. Congratulations!!!
Guys, In other countries, Depron/Compressed is an alternative for the Foamalux
Great idea! So smart. I love it.
Excellent work Sir!!
Nice work brother!
Peter, you should create another series called "assemble an airbus" and make an airbus simulator.
"Yam Damper" nice
dem sweet pahtatoohs dems mighty bouncy ! yas gotta damnpen dem vibrayshuns !
The power of a Yam is sourced from the MIGHT YAM spanning *SEVEN AND A HALF DIMENSIONS *
Very practical nice job! Looks great!
Thakns. It even looks better after I got it mounted in the cockpit.
Build a Boeing Pieter, are you going to do another video soon? I would love to see the status of your cockpit with the overhead mounted! By the way, what MCP and EFIS modules are you using? Im looking at the Open Cockpits one but I'm not sure if I would be able to use the SIOC software correctly.
superb video and good understanding
i love the the build, i too have a setup that is mostly friendly to the twin jet aircraft..... take a look and tell me what you think....
1:50 the "YAM DAMPER" light
Impressive. Good work.
Hello !!! how many controller cards was used ??
+Vídeo Mania 1 Open Cockpits USB expansion card. 3 OC MasterCards. 2 OC Display cards. 1 Pololu Maestro 12 ch. And a few extra wires from another MasterCard in the MIP.
There are a lot of interface cards to achieve having the switches work. You may want to search 737 flight sim or go to this sight which is a guy that built a complete sim and wrote everything you need to know. www.flaps2approach.com/project-overview/
You could just print a regular poster and use spray adhesive
Kris Farrant probably yeah
thanks for the file. I'm preparing a laser cutting template based on your drawing. I will paint a sheet of plexiglass grey and cut and engrave the lines onto it with laser cutting machine then the panels will be perfect. I just want to notice you that the file you gave us has overhead light label missing. circuit breaker ligt label is there but below that, a label is missing. For your information. Thanks so much.
Thank you..I'm going to try my hand at this :)
thank you... from argentina
VERY WELL DONE!!
Hi Mad great project on your cockpit.
I'm not sure if all the buttons are still work if you push them up to 100 times because material you wrote here foamalux/plexiglas looks like what germans call Styropor and its not a strong material.
Proberly it will broke verry fast ?
Maybe it is better to use blue or other colored plexiglas
so you can do some lights (led or something) on the background
and it will shine from the frontside of it and in dark rooms ?
I made on of these pannel for Falcon A.F on a F-16 Jet
and use blue plexiglas with a strength of 5 mm.
All the buttons i was build in these 5 mm plexiglas are still the same strength
as the time i was create and build these pannel.
My next Option is to line up some wires and LEDs to show the different buttonstates on a led when a button chance his status for *on* or *off* with green an red leds.
For control this things i use a ARCAZE USB-INTERFACE with 40 digital I/O-PINS and some analog output, and a ARDUINO MEGA 2560 Rev. 3 witch got up to 50 and more digital I/O-PINS with PWM-supported outputs for adjust the brightness and so on.
Here are the Weblinks to the Mainpages of Arduinoboards arduino.cc and Arcaze-USB-Interface wiki.simple-solutions.de
The last weblink for the Arcaze-USB-Interface some guys said that this one at last time was cheap to get in some Internetstores.
cool video!!
Very interesting use of inexpensive materials. You can see the negative posts are from children who are so jealous. Those 12 & 14 year old rivet counters with no skills who thrive on criticizing those who do. Good work on the panel.
New to all of this, but reasonably handy. Am a general contractor with engineering background. Just in the pre-planning stages now. What are you using as an interface between the pokeys and the pc? Mobiflight? Just trying to get a better understanding of this series of hardware and software. Im considering arduino mega and mobiflight. Thoughts?
i will made to home cockpit some months later when i will get...
Where did you get the buttens and knobs because I aslo like to build a overhead panel! Thank you.
May you describe how to make flaps levers? Thx a lot
Nice! How do you get the switches you made to work with the simulator? Is there a video you can do on that please. I use xplane 10. Thanks
Super fedt :) Godt arbejde. Kunne være spændende at komme og se dit projekt på et tidspunkt.
Hey ich bin nochmal nun auf deutsch.Wenn ihr panel belechten wollt kauft nicht die teuren für ein super panel braucht ihr nur plexiglas kleber und eine schrere !!! ihr druckt euch das orginal panel 2x aus und klebt diese dan wie ein sandwich übereinander also von oben gesehen panel+panel+plexiglas0nur die schrift ist beleuchtet da diese weiß ist und das licht besser durch geht wie durch das graue super einfach und spart echt viel geld wenn ihr schalter einbauen wollt einfach mehrere plexiglas scheiben übereinander kleben!!!
with the FSUIPC is possible operate the hydraulic an pneumatic systems on the PMDG 737-800 in FS9?
Please the plan sir, how to get the plan, I'd likee to get my own A320/738 simulator
Kool buddy I subed you n keep the good vids flowing
Nice work, can you please help out with the Pokeys 56U?
I have 2 boards to put in my F16 pit, but being confused how to program them.
Can you make a video about setting up a pokeys and some tip tricks perhaps?
thx
Great Job and you show how a little work can make a great looking overhead. I converted the PDF to a JPEG and got Walmart to do a poster size so I don't need to cut it all up $19 the switches are not so cheap, but I can do a few at a time. What was the card you mentioned to allow LEDS ?
I use OpenCockpit cards (ExpansionCard and MasterCards)
crazy, i love it !!
Hi how do you connect all the toggle switches and rotary knobs on the card thanks????????
Can you make a video of how to Connect the style knobs on?
minute 5:10 the second panel is not ploted with vinil, has not shine.. what paper did you use for that panel? thank you
It was printed on glossy vinyl. I then sprayed it with matt clear paint (Matt finish)
THANK U
verry smart
hello iam looking on doingg this but how did you make the buttons work with fsuipc or just in flightsim?
And the ldg (minimum) and cruising altitue?
But it doesn't work at all, you can't use it with the pmdg b737-800 because a lot of details are stickers :-(
Hi Aaron.
I only offer you stickers that you can use for building your own overhead instead of buying €500 worth of premade panels. Whichever way you go you still have to build them and interface them you self, unless you have around €4000 laying around for a plug'n'play version.
Happt landings
Peter
Hi Peter love the idea , i'm building my own 737 cockpit and i'd love to add some backligthing to my OH . Is there any way you can send a similar print to Portugal , i live in Lisbon and i just do not know any place where i can make that kind of printing.
Link for panel:
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6177912/Peters%20Overhead.pdf
(You may now post links on UA-cam, the ONLY good thing about the new comment section)
wow
Hi. The link is at the bottom of the description. I can't post the link in a comment. :-)
/Peter
Hi, I'm going to do the same sort of thing on illustrator except for a 777-200LR. How did find the dimensions of each individual panel?
Mega Max Productions Honestly, I can not remember... :-(
Ok, no problem. I found a chart that I was a able to get at 1:1 that comes with a 1cm mark for scale. Just used the cm marker to get dimensions and it works perfectly!
hello , I'm working on a similar project but I'm facing a problem , I only bought input cards , so I should be working on an aircraft that has warning messages on the EICAS unlike the 737 which you have to look at the overhead panel and see what is the problem , so I decided to go for the 747 because it has a perfect warning messages on the EICAS and I dont have to mound LEDs in my overhead panel and I dont have to buy a SIOC card , but I just need the B747 overhead panel stickers , cab you send them to me if you have them ?
Hi Mahmood.
I have only made the panel for the 737 as this is the one I build. So I am not able to help you with a 747 version. But you can download the Illustrator-file from the blog and edit so it fits your needs.
Regards Peter
Build a Boeing thank you very much , if you can tell me about an MSFS B737 addon that has EICAS messages like (Park Brake off / Fuel low ) warnings like that , I will be very thankful to you
am i right in saying when u wire a switch. for instance a toggle switch on off. if a light comes on when u turn that switch on do u wire that led to that switch if that makes sense
Hey! What switches did you use for 'On Auto Off' switches (like spdt dpdt etc?) and for the normal switches 'On Off' or 'Off Arm' what switches did you use on them? Or were they just spst? Thanks!
Fantastic!!!!
3.5w is huge. The led's you are using should only be rated at about 20ma?
Hi
what do you call the two cards on the back of your overhead panel(the end up of the wires of your toggle switch and rotary knobs)?????
Thanks
I suppose the buttons which are in there does work?
Where did you buy the chip on the back side of the panel?Pleas respond i really need help since i have built a panel like youres but i only need the chip now!!!!!
Put the panels dosnt work Then
hi mate ... is it not possible to use the LED extension board with pokeys? Looks like you can run multiple LEDs per output. It's available from flightsimparts -dot- eu.
Just starting my own cockpit build, so your videos is very helpful so far, thanks !
i like your solution of printing it different panels instead of just one simple layer. But ive improved it a little bit, because my print-supplier printed it on a transparent foil so i have decided to paint the letters on the anounciators white and coluered just the frame so i can put a small LED behind it. The contra is that i've lost my '3d look' a little bit. What do you think about this, and is it possible?
And theres another question, i know that you used prosim737 since the early idea of your project, but do you think that it's possible to do it with just fsuipc and pmdg? I can't spent to much money cause i'm a pupil and the real flying is not cheap. ;) So your DIY videos are the starter switch for my cockpit.
Hello i like your knob for the turn buttens(don´t now how they names are come from german)where do you buy these???
Hi Tim.
The knobs are $0.50 each from Tayda Electronics and then spray painted.
RGDS Peter
Build a Boeing Thank you,Isearched a long time for something like that(sorry for bad english!!!)
Where did you buy all the parts from?
awesome!!!
Nice
Can you tell us how to program all the wires? Thanks!!! :)
the Pockeys56U is compatible with Fligth SImulator 2004?
it is a verry nice overhead but wihout lights and stuff....
***** Depends on how you make it. I have holes for the annunciators and LEDs are able to light up through the foil. So annunciators: Yes. Backlightning: No.
okay.. But still. i think i will be buying a Overhead..
Sure. This is just ment as a cheap way of getting started. It doesn't beat "real" overhead panels. :-)
haha yeah your right
+Captain.AIR and it doesn't cost $6500
IM LOOKING TO BUILD AN md11 COCKPIT..DO U FEEL YOUR METHODS WOULD TRANSLATE TO THAT COCKPIT?
Do we have a handbook aboyt how to connect cables?
Also what should we use to connect them like arduino etc?
No, there is no handbook because it depends on your interface boards. I mostly use OpenCockpits. But other cards are different in regards to how many switches that can share GND.
@@BuildaBoeing okay but for me, I'd like to get a laser like the k40 chinese then build panel from myself but first, I can't get measurements and then I don't have that perfect knowledge about that.
by the way great job
What offset num you setup the servo
Hi there.
Thank you for the great video,i would like to know where i can find the PDF file you mentioned,i found your video very informative and helpful.
thanks Keith
Hi Keith. Look in the desription
Hi Peter, I have tried out this technique to pretty good effect since I saw your video. Question: how do you accurately cut the holes for the switches? I've used a hole punch for leather but it doesn't give a very good result. Any tips on this would be welcome!
I just used a normal drill. Goes through foam like a hot knife through butter. If you use plexiglass I recommend you reverse the drill and use the heat from friction to work your way through the plexiglass. I have cracked many pieces of plexiglass using a HSS drill if the "right direction"
Is it usable for FSX? I understand its for the Home Cockpit 737 but is there plugs or such to use for FSX? :) Please reply at your convenience! Thanks in advance!
Ofcourse this is for FS
Hi. As mentioned above, this of course works with FS. It is just a piece of plastic. For it to work with FS you need something to connect your switches ot (Interface cards). All I have done is to make a pdf-file you can print and use for your own build at a low cost.
Regards Peter
Alright, thanks! :D
Go to www.DesktopAviator.com the have an interface that you can hook switches up to that is a usb device, I have 2 of them and can hook up 40 swithches...
Don Cornwall 40 Switches on 1 hub or 40 on 2 hubs?
Thanks
why does it say YAM DAMPER under YAW DAMPER? - im not technically minded so if its supposed to be like that i apologise :P
Hi Matt. The file was updated a few days ago. Of course it should read YAW.
Okay, was just wondering :)
Where did you get the switches? What are the switches and how did you interface them all?
Switches are bought from eBay. They are simple on-off toggles (Or on-off-on). There is no simple manual for interfacing because it depends on the type if interfaec boards you use.
Build a Boeing thanks for replying! I'm keen to start on a diy project to build a few instrument panels.
Do you think you'd be interested (if you have the time) to do videos on how you interface them? (e.g. industry name of those switches, soldering the connections and programming)
How did you printed this? I mean, I want to make airbus overhead but did you printed the layout on A4, cutted out and attached it to your selfmade overhead?
I ordered at a professional print shop. See the blog for details buildaboeing.com/overhead
do you know any websites where i can buy parts for my homemade 737 cockpit?
Hi Lachlan. By now I am sure that you have found plenty of shops whit panels.
Hey if I were to buy one of these, can I replace the switches like the knobs?
Very helpfull video! I've got one question: is this also possible for a A320 overhead panel and if so where can I download the files to print it out. I'm going to build a homecockpit as well. Thank you.
I have only done the 737 as I am making a 737. No plans for an Airbus.
It says yam damper not yaw dampter
Damper*
Sure does. It has been updated in the pdf/ai-files
+Build a Boeing oh thanks! BTW those panels helped me a lot! :$
how did u add Matt finish on the glossy sticker sir?
+Yogeshwara Bhat Spray paint. /Peter
Hi,
can you provide the communication protocol between PoKeys56U and flight simulator?
Hi Davi.
It is handled by Prosim737 that has support for Pokeys (Among many other cards).
So it is (more or less) plug and play.
/Peter
What do you call the end up of all of your wires????
Very cool ,,,,,,how print,,,,,, as you print,,,,i get small,,,,,help
+Edwin Espinoza The instructions are on the web page. You need a large scale printer, or you need to be able to scale the print.
Tk,,,,,
Some projects which are needed to print? .dwg or .cdr ?
If i asked would you create one for me and ship it to UK? ( Just wondering, not good at this stuff. ) Thanks!
+Ryan Hi Ryan. No sorry. I only made the file. But you should easily be able to find i UK based company that can help you. Look on my webpage for printing details and then ask any semi-pro print-shop.
Build a Boeing thanks sir!
Ryan
Where did you get rotary switch knobs?
+Tugsuu Togooch Tayda Electronich / eBay