August 20, 2007

I worked on both the motor controller and the cockpit panel this weekend. I ordered the KT-5198 from Ocean Controls to use to control my platform motors. I was able to wire it up, but I have yet to test it. I should find some time this week to adapt my program to make calls based on motor speed and potentometer position.

I also decided on a single cockpit design and drafted it up in Artcad. Last year my home "project" was to build a CNC machine, so I used it to cut out the panels. I then painted them with textured flat black and dark grey paint.
Visit the motor control and cockpit panel photo gallery to take a look

July 9, 2007

This is a small video of the software test with Flight Simulator X. I used the simConnect SDK and C# to get the data out of the flight sim.

Read posts I have made about this simulator:
To 3-Phase or not to 3-Phase
My Motion Simulator