Hey mate!! Looks like DCS has allowed the game to ignore those files for the IC. It was failing for me for a long time and now works 🙌🏼🙌🏼 see you next week 🤙🏻
The laser engraver just brings the project to an entirely new level. For now Im just using a Bambu A1 in thinwall mode with black for the panel, white on raised text and then a UV reactive green on top of the white to give it a glowing look in blue or UV light. Looks great for 3d printing, however not up there with these laser engraved ones.
Thanks mate! I’m just working at the airport 😂 nothing to do with cockpit building and electronics I did a little bit of study with soldering and electronics in high school and kinda just kept tinkering afterwards
You planning on running an RS485 Network to daisy chain all your panels to one comm port? My PC started freakn out and Windows was getting pissed at me with 35ish USBs plugged with warning from Windows that all USB resources were used up. I now run an 3 megas. Basically 30ish comm ports shrunk to 3 comm ports. Each Master has 3 RS485 networks to load balance, scalability and future growth like servos driven guages. So far I have like 12 slaves on the right console and 13 in the UIP. Building the Hornet was pretty cut and dry. Wiring it is a whole other beast. Please test the crap out of everything before final install. In particular the IFEI. Once its in there the only way to get it out cleanly without chipping the paint on nearby stuff is the fully remove the UIP. And if you have the UIP all wired up then its a mega bitch rewinding what you did for all the wiring just to extract the IFEI out to trouble shoot. Also, might want to ditch the cable lacing. Looks cool but I assure you you are going to have gremlins causing you to rewind things. Probably more feasible with zip ties. I tried the lacing. Looked awesome until a gremlin put the kabache on that. Build is looking awesome. Keep it up.
Thanks mate!! Yeah it will go to a RS485 system with the HID Bus Masters eventually (there are 4 or 5 all up)… probably coinciding with when Open Hornet Releases the v0.3.0 software package (all the PCBs are designed for it)… the direct USB/single arduino integration in reality helps with the channel / episodes in creating stand alone modules… trying to explain how each panel integrates into the bus network would be a nightmare each episode and would be lost on a lot of people who are building smaller scale pits But as the cockpit comes to completion then that will be its own episode and viewers can see it on a macro level instead of individual components 🤙🏻🤙🏻
@aHornetsNest Completely agree. Took me a minute to figure out how to do it but once you have the hardware requirement in place for it the master/slave option is the best way to go. The only issue I had with master/slave was with RGB LEDs. They worked but there was noticable latency. I ended up driving all my indicator lamps with tiny MOSFETs. They are stupid fast with zero latency on master/slave.
Hey there! I personally don’t But you can jump on the Open Hornet GitHub, which is spoken about in depth in an earlier episode and it’s all for free 🤙🏻
this whole build series is fantastic, really impressive to see the details you get into and how great it is all looking!
Thank you so much! I appreciate it 🤙🏻🫡
Amazing attention to detail Scott - bravo pal.
Thanks mate!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 how you been?
Nice video mate, love your work. Excited to see if you have a way around the IC for exports in the next vid. Keep up the good work.
Hey mate!! Looks like DCS has allowed the game to ignore those files for the IC. It was failing for me for a long time and now works 🙌🏼🙌🏼 see you next week 🤙🏻
Frankly that is amazing and the best news I’ve heard all year. Granted it is January but I’m still super happy to hear it. 🎉
It was probs one of the biggest “stressors” for the channel leading up to yesterdays episode was how do I deal with this broken IC issue
Thanks Scott, another fantastic tutorial. Keep ‘em coming. I’m here for the long run.
Thanks mate!! I appreciate it 🤙🏻 I’m hoping for an episode next week with the exporting of the IFEI 🤞🏼
The laser engraver just brings the project to an entirely new level.
For now Im just using a Bambu A1 in thinwall mode with black for the panel, white on raised text and then a UV reactive green on top of the white to give it a glowing look in blue or UV light. Looks great for 3d printing, however not up there with these laser engraved ones.
Thanks mate!!! Oh that’s awesome send me a pic if you can 🤙🏻🤙🏻 I’ve seen some real nice results with Bambu machines
Thats actually a pretty creative idea / work around for your scenario.
🙌🏼🙌🏼
lol love the " hello" at the end. hahah
😂😂😂😂😂
Awesome tutorial... thank you!!!
Thanks mate!! 🫡🫡
Amazing work! :)
Great progress! Do you have a video about your laser setup? I'm not seeing one but if you discussed it in a video already I'd be interested in a link.
Hey mate! I don’t … but I think I should ay
I’ve always put it off but I should really do one
What field do you work in in real life? because you have a great level of skills
Thanks mate! I’m just working at the airport 😂 nothing to do with cockpit building and electronics
I did a little bit of study with soldering and electronics in high school and kinda just kept tinkering afterwards
@@aHornetsNest Passion is therefore your driving force. do you think you can mount all this on a dynamic simulator to push realism to the limit?
@bigounet51 ooooo I’d love to!
You planning on running an RS485 Network to daisy chain all your panels to one comm port? My PC started freakn out and Windows was getting pissed at me with 35ish USBs plugged with warning from Windows that all USB resources were used up. I now run an 3 megas. Basically 30ish comm ports shrunk to 3 comm ports. Each Master has 3 RS485 networks to load balance, scalability and future growth like servos driven guages. So far I have like 12 slaves on the right console and 13 in the UIP. Building the Hornet was pretty cut and dry. Wiring it is a whole other beast. Please test the crap out of everything before final install. In particular the IFEI. Once its in there the only way to get it out cleanly without chipping the paint on nearby stuff is the fully remove the UIP. And if you have the UIP all wired up then its a mega bitch rewinding what you did for all the wiring just to extract the IFEI out to trouble shoot. Also, might want to ditch the cable lacing. Looks cool but I assure you you are going to have gremlins causing you to rewind things. Probably more feasible with zip ties. I tried the lacing. Looked awesome until a gremlin put the kabache on that. Build is looking awesome. Keep it up.
Thanks mate!! Yeah it will go to a RS485 system with the HID Bus Masters eventually (there are 4 or 5 all up)… probably coinciding with when Open Hornet Releases the v0.3.0 software package (all the PCBs are designed for it)… the direct USB/single arduino integration in reality helps with the channel / episodes in creating stand alone modules… trying to explain how each panel integrates into the bus network would be a nightmare each episode and would be lost on a lot of people who are building smaller scale pits
But as the cockpit comes to completion then that will be its own episode and viewers can see it on a macro level instead of individual components 🤙🏻🤙🏻
@aHornetsNest Completely agree. Took me a minute to figure out how to do it but once you have the hardware requirement in place for it the master/slave option is the best way to go. The only issue I had with master/slave was with RGB LEDs. They worked but there was noticable latency. I ended up driving all my indicator lamps with tiny MOSFETs. They are stupid fast with zero latency on master/slave.
Nice one!
Do you offer these cockpit component circuit boards for purchase?
Hey there! I personally don’t
But you can jump on the Open Hornet GitHub, which is spoken about in depth in an earlier episode and it’s all for free 🤙🏻