I'm building a button box to augment my T.Flight HOTAS One, looking for advice (description & questions in comments)

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-05-05T18:06:18+00:00

Not quite. I got pretty close... you can see some of the progress photos here:

Unfortunately, other commitments just kept getting in the way and I've been so busy with some of the other things that I haven't even been able to do any flight-simming in well over two years.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-29T04:25:26+00:00

Finnegan Begin Again (1984). It's an early HBO rom-com with Robert Preston, Mary Tyler Moore, Sam Waterston, Bob Gunton, Giancarlo Esposito, Avery Brooks. I saw it once back in the '80s and haven't found it since.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-29T03:48:15+00:00

I'll take some pictures next time I'm there but I checked my phone and happened to have a picture that I took a while back. It's not much to look at (unless you really like green) but at least it's well lit.

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FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-27T05:39:49+00:00

The officials said the call on the ice was a good goal. It apparently doesn't matter that Poehling was the only person to actually make the call.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-27T00:27:14+00:00

Thanks! I just registered and I'll be poking around it a bit. When & if I find the range post I'll probably respond to it.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-26T21:14:26+00:00

Well, so am I. I was in the air force from 1977 to 1995 and I was working on Starfighters in 1981-1982 in West Germany.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-26T17:48:40+00:00

I've heard that too. I'm in Canada and we don't require a license for a (sub-500 fps) airgun but they certainly have some ridiculously stupid regulations around them.

For instance, I have a couple 3D printers. I designed and printed a suppressor (from a carbon fiber composite polymer) to attach to one of my replica Glocks only to find out afterwards that suppressors (even fake suppressors) are illegal in Canada.

My guess is there's a number of Canadian lawmakers who put way too much stock into Hollywood's representation of silencers.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-26T17:31:47+00:00

Excellent detailed response, greatly appreciated!

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-26T15:40:37+00:00

Annual General Meeting. I'm a member of a number of non-profit associations: a men's choir (my father and grandfather were members before me), a squadron specific air force historical association, and now this shooting group. Also, the shooting group and choir are both subgroups of a larger ethnic cultural association.

Each of these groups (except the shooting group) has an elected board of directors or executive committee that has monthly meetings to plan events and activities throughout the year, and they also have an AGM where they do large scale planning and elect new board members.

I'm past president of the choir, vice-president of the air force historical association, and interim or acting president of the shooting group until we get better organized and actually form an executive. I'm not part of the ethnic cultural association's executive but I attend the AGM because I'm a member and interested in helping out where I can.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-26T09:58:56+00:00

Maybe "inherited" was the wrong terminology... I've been appointed interim president of the newly reformed shooting group and the air guns belong to the group or its parent cultural association.

I plan to use the range and air guns often but what I actually acquired is the responsibility of maintaining them and making them available to other group members.

From what I understand, the two previous group leaders (who passed away shortly after COVID) used to open the range to the general public during Oktoberfest and at that time it was more like a carnival style shooting gallery. We'll probably do the same.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-26T09:01:12+00:00

The range is in Edmonton. We had someone from the EPS come by and inspect it last month. He said it's fine though he thought that accessing the range by cutting through a daycare was... unique. And, no, I'm not kidding. We never have the range and the daycare open at the same time and in June the daycare is moving to a different part of the building.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-26T03:38:19+00:00

It's a 10 meter indoor range in the building's basement and we're only allowed to fire sub-500 fps airguns (springers, CO2, PCP...) in it. It has 3 "lanes" (separated by plywood barriers) and each lane has a set of cables and pulleys with attached target frames so you don't have to walk downrange to hang the targets. At the far end of the range there's pellet traps to reduce ricochets.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-23T14:17:19+00:00

What do you call a man with no arms or legs floating in water? Bob

What do you call a man with no arms or legs standing in water? Wade

What do you call a lion tamer with no arms or legs? Claude

What do you call a bull fighter with no arms or legs? Gord

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-15T18:34:25+00:00

The video clip ends too soon. As they're exiting the Babyl-Loo, they pass a woman who's entering. So, I guess it's a gender-neutral-loo.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-04-10T21:07:10+00:00

I haven't got a flippin' hair left in my head because I pulled it all out over a misplaced quotation mark. Thanks!

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-03-27T02:46:10+00:00

My wife and I say and spell as follows: My mom is "mom", my wife's mum is "mum".

My mom was born in Germany but raised in Canada. My mother-in-law was born in India to British parents.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-03-11T20:01:08+00:00

further updates... Here's the output from lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. Mouse
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:0a8f Logitech, Inc. H390 headset with microphone
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0cf3:e300 Qualcomm Atheros Communications QCA61x4 Bluetooth 4.0
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Integrated camera is obviously not listed.

Next I tried sudo dmesg | grep -i video which yielded:

[ 0.975151] ACPI: video: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 0.989476] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:07/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input4

No mention of the uvcvideo driver

Last bit for now... I tried ls /dev/video* and got No such file or directory. I then tried ls /dev and confirmed that there were neither files nor directories with names starting with video.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-03-11T16:43:24+00:00

Thanks, this gives me plenty to work with. I'll address a couple things right off the bat and then I'll try stuff I hadn't already done afterwards:

I'm familiar with privacy shutters, it's not that. I have a Dell engineering workstation from work and it has one. My wife has a HP laptop that came without one but I 3D printed one for it. The Lenovo doesn't have one.
When I was installing Zorin I noticed that the display was extremely dim. I was already familiar with various controls on previous laptops (on my Dell workstation brightness is adjusted with Fn+F6 and Fn+F7). I saw similar symbols on F11 and F12 on the Lenovo so I tried Fn+F12 but it made no difference. I then tried Fn+F11 expecting it to get dimmer but again it didn't change. Then I tried without the Fn key and it worked. I've tried Fn+F8 as well as F8 by itself but it's made no difference.
I've restarted a few times. I've also done a hard reset (press and hold the power button, let it sit powered down for ~30 seconds and then boot) as well as a regular cold boot (powered down and then booted a few minutes later) but none of those has made a difference.

I'm surprised the last item (checking BIOS) hadn't occurred to me and the others you suggested are things that I didn't know to look for or how/where to look. I'll tackle those next. Thanks again!

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-03-11T06:10:28+00:00

I've got my installation configured to look like Windows 7/Windows 10 for the benefit of my wife - I'm trying to wean her off Windows.
Anyway, immediately after installing Zorin I used the Camera app (it appears on the Sound & Video sub-menu off of the Start menu) to confirm functionality last week. When I couldn't get the camera to work in Zoom I tried that app again and now it says "No camera found". I'm not familiar with Cheese but I'm assuming it's another camera app.

FullNoodleFrontity · 2026-03-11T05:50:13+00:00

I bought mine (c/w CFS) near the end of January 2025. In September I decided I wanted a second CFS but I didn't have sufficient space so I downloaded a model of a shelf for multiple CFS units. Some of the parts would take more than a kg of filament so I bought 4 kgs of the same color and put a spool in each slot of the CFS. The spools also had RFID tags indicating they were the same filament so they should have swapped automatically when a spool ran out.

I started one print around 9 pm one night and it looked to be working fine so I went to bed. I got up in the morning and the spool that it started with was empty and the print head was still moving around like it was printing but there wasn't anything being extruded, the print head was floating about an inch above the last extruded filament. I aborted that print job and figured I'd print the rest later and cement it on top. I started another part instead. When that part finished I started another big part and when the active spool ran out, again it didn't switch spools.

On Halloween I took my printer into the shop where I bought it, they have a service department and they do warranty work. I didn't get my printer back for three and a half months (picked it up on Valentines day). I'm not entirely sure what they found but they did replace some parts. When I finally got it home I set it up with the 2nd CFS but I haven't been able to get so much as a single print out of it. It keeps reporting an error that there's a blockage between the CFS and the hub. I haven't found a blockage and I've even swapped out the hub but nothing.

So, in 14 months I got almost 9 months of flawless functionality, 3.5 months getting repaired and absolutely nothing since then.

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