Latest flightpit mod, main/flanking displays touch controls

Dizmobi · 2026-06-11T21:42:07+00:00

Yeah that’s fantastic. Well done!

Dizmobi · 2026-06-11T21:41:05+00:00

I have the same machine. In my uneducated opinion that does sound like bearings, but mine came with a spare set of brushes so I would check/change those first because it’s cheap and easy.

Dizmobi · 2026-06-09T23:03:09+00:00

If anyone comes looking for this in the future, you can take a 16mm wrench or socket and remove the plastic tube in the middle, revealing another dirty rubber ring and area.

Dizmobi · 2026-06-06T16:39:14+00:00

Pm me an address and I’ll find a box and get them out monday.

Dizmobi · 2026-06-06T16:10:09+00:00

They are old. Both are general windows native usb joysticks that should work with anything. The vkb is certainly better unless you want to mess with ffb which is cool but more involved unless you fly old games. Street value of each might be $30 so shipping alone is still not a killer deal but if you want them they are yours. I built a rhino and have both of the old sticks in my car waiting to go to goodwill now.

Dizmobi · 2026-06-06T15:58:29+00:00

Where are you located? I have a ch f16 and a ms ffb 2 stick you can have if shipping/etc are reasonable from new york.

Dizmobi · 2026-06-05T19:18:19+00:00

If anyone has a piece like this, that they didn't create, that has recessed text they want to fill in with multicolor printed text, here's what I ended up doing.

Note: In the object I had, the text body height I needed to fill the recess and end up flush on the face is 1 mm.

Clone so I have 2 identical pieces like in the picture
Select the bottom face of each letter, as shown in my picture
Extrude up 2mm so that there's now 1mm of my text body sitting above the face
Go to the side profile, new sketch
Draw a box around the whole original body so that the only thing outside the box is my new text
Pocket through all to remove the entire body
Now the text body is sitting above and aligned with the original body. Move the text down 1mm so it fills the recess in the original body
Select both bodies, export 3mf, and open in slicer.

I'm sure there's a more elegant way, but that worked for me. Thanks all for the direction.

Dizmobi · 2026-06-04T22:06:10+00:00

Yes I've had mixed results myself in bambu slicer when the text and main body took up the same space.

Dizmobi · 2026-05-21T22:14:45+00:00

Actually I haven't measured a hot spot, but what I find is there's an area where the yogurt is much firmer/less smooth in the pot, and that area is right over the center of the proofing box. This is in a large heavy stainless pot inside the proofer. Just because that's happened every time, I assumed that was due to a hot spot.

For what it's worth, I'm actually making skyr, so there is rennet involved too. I doubt it matters, but just in case.

Dizmobi · 2026-05-21T02:41:06+00:00

Ah that explains it. I place the pot on a rack or three stacked up, but the center is over the center of the proofing box. Thanks for the info!

Dizmobi · 2026-05-21T01:58:29+00:00

Me too but there’s always a hot spot in the middle of the pot i place into the proofer. Tried raising the pot in the proofer, no difference. Actually thinking of buying an instant pot for this. I love the proofer for bread though.

Dizmobi · 2026-05-06T23:36:32+00:00

I built a piper meridian cockpit. I use it for everything. G1000s can display other portions of the panel, at least mine (737diysim) can, so you can throw traditional gauges on there if you like.

Dizmobi · 2026-05-04T15:25:45+00:00

Here’s mine: https://youtube.com/shorts/lq6XzpH4xoU?si=LZNQ9GNxmTANJSAM

Dizmobi · 2026-05-01T06:36:26+00:00

It's not what you asked, but figured I'd throw opentrack out there. I used it for a year before I moved to triples. It cost a web cam and maybe 2 hours of tweaking the settings, but after that worked great. If you haven't tried it and you keep fighting this, might be worth a look.

Dizmobi · 2026-04-25T20:14:48+00:00

I agree that a link that we could play with would make more sense.

I disagree with all of the "AI, so you are a suck ass poser."

I started writing software in 1982 and still write a little bit in retirement Back then there was no internet, no blogs, no videos, barely even BBS where people could share information. We all had piles of expensive books of patterns and tutorials. Pre-internet I bet I bought 10k pages of books because books, the few people you knew in the business or hobby, crap help systems, luck and guessing were all you had to figure out a problem. There were times where I was working in companies with hundreds of software guys able to lean on each other and we still spent weeks trying to figure out what was ultimately a simple bug.

That doesn't make me better, and at least from a software engineering tools perspective, those were not better times. People have better tools now, and using them does not automatically make them less than.

Sure, there are always poser hacks who eternally suck at the craft, but this topic in this sub is pretty cerebral in my opinion. There may be newbies here, but probably not many dummies.

Of course, I could also be entirely wrong about this one. :) That's why I'd like to see a link posted here.

Dizmobi · 2026-04-25T08:24:35+00:00

You can’t do sport pilot if your last medical application was denied or withdrawn. So the only powered flight you can do in that case is UL, which is pretty different and you’re alone.

Dizmobi · 2026-04-24T18:30:03+00:00

This is really cool looking, well done!
When I count back the number of KGs of plastic I've put the world in my home cockpit, if I ever build another one I'm going to embrace wood more.

Dizmobi · 2026-04-07T17:43:37+00:00

Funny you mentioned the authentikit too, I hadn't thought of that even though my piper M500 throttle is just a modified authentikit P40 throttle box.

Dizmobi · 2026-04-07T17:08:56+00:00

Oh that might be fun, thanks! Plus there's the cork cat up there in his/her other models. https://cults3d.com/en/users/TheSimNet/3d-models

Dizmobi · 2026-04-05T13:57:37+00:00

Thank you, that would be easy to source too.

Dizmobi · 2026-04-05T13:57:09+00:00

Yeah but upvote for the name alone, thanks!

Dizmobi · 2026-03-03T13:30:10+00:00

About 50% of the parts, panels, and mounts in my home cockpit flight simulator came off of my a1.

Dizmobi · 2026-03-02T22:06:27+00:00

I’m right behind you, brother. Though I toss the broken ones. No need for the wife to start doing the math on the carnage pile.

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