Crimped roughly 250 connectors and did lots of soldering. Still WIP but I rolled the first successful button tests!!1eleven
Ignore the wobbling, there are almost no supporting frames behind for easier access to the wires.
Tag: simpit
🤓 Painted the button box, added more buttons and the LCD and set it to playing the #BSG DRADIS animation[1] of the Pegasus just for show:
Next is wiring everything up (and when that is done finishing the frame for the display) and add decals.
Same thing really to see how it feels:
[1] The Loop was created by David Gian-Cursio (https://www.gian-cursio.net/2016/07/battlestar-pegasus-dradis-screens/) for Diaspora: Shattered Armistice (a total conversion for the FreeSpace Open engine).
Behold my latest #simPit addition 🤪
A button box | switch panel for the toddler. It was on a discount so I gave in. May be a good starting point for a bigger one that I’m going to make for the kids eventually.
SimPit doodles
Just wanted to feel horse riding in Red Dead Redemption 2 game. #rdr2 #gaming #horseriding
I guess that counts as #simpit too https://tinandjar.com/2023/01/09/feel-game-gun-recoil/ 🤣
Hell of a #DIY #controller. Also no idea how that monitor survives this onslaught.
Jon cobbles up that chat "AI" to his #EliteDangerous #SimPit. Really fun stuff. My kind of nerd level 👌 including text to speech to make it a snippy bitching Betty: https://youtu.be/miQBHcP8YzA
Running X4: Foundations with my SimPit
I hacked a mod for X4: Foundations to get ship telemetry and targeting data to my “Primary Buffer Panel” via a socket. This is a demonstration of my simulated cockpit made from cardboard on a budget usually used to play Elite Dangerous now also used for X4: Foundations. This is work in progress.
In use:
- A Linux PC
- A DIY Headtracker
- A DIY Joystick (My Primary Buffer Panel)
- A X52 Pro HOTAS
- An AMD RX6700XT
- …a lot of plumbing in Node-Red xD
This is loosely based on the Python Pipe Server mod for X4 that is sadly Windows only using Named Pipes. I fixed that for Linux PC by side-loading the library LuaSocket and starting a socket server directly in X4. That’s right, the Python Server is simply not needed now and companion tools may directly connect to the socket. It’s a nice bonus that LuaSocket also allows a UDP or TCP server depending on how it is started. That was some piece of work though and I’m still wrapping things up to publish my code changes. I’m also still looking for testers so if you’re interested get in touch!
So you _still_ think you can’t space pew pew on Linux PC? Think again. I do it all the time: https://beko.famkos.net/2021/10/16/space-pew-pew-on-linux-pc/
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Modding my X4: Foundations into using the same data format as Elite Dangerous does so I can run my SimPit without changes. Things are coming together nicely 😀
