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DIY Overhead Control Panel
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 18:56
by seebart
I'm sure some of you have seen this crazy custom input device:
http://imgur.com/a/DyQZL
This is my personal favorite of the lot:
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Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 19:19
by klikkyklik
This is my favorite.
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Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 20:56
by Muirium
A friend of mine wants to make some kit like that for his flight sims. You can build quite a cockpit that way, which does indeed interface with the simulation.
A lot f work of course. Especially as they all must glow at night, like real planes.
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 21:02
by Redmaus
Yeah this was on reddit.
So cool. I wish more things today used real switches instead of rubber buttons. Like remotes.
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 21:07
by Findecanor
Really fun project! Lots of geeky pop culture references. Me likes
The weird glyphs after WARNING are an alphabet from Star Wars called Aurebesh. It says "DON'T EVER PUSH THERE BUTTON" ...
The words under the toggles under MAIN SYSTEM are not all intelligible. Under the first I read "JOEY". Under the others I can read "VES" and "EPH". Probably "IVES" and "STEPH".
No I can't read Aurebesh fluently.. But I have used it. Like ten years ago or so, I made a couple of lightsabers with engraved Aurebesh script. When I costume (cosplay
), kids sometime come up to me and ask for my autograph - and then I write them my name and club ID in Aurebesh script.
BTW. A HAL panel replica is on my bucket list of props to build ...
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 21:17
by macmakkara
hmm... i don't get these... propably because i see this at work everyday
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 21:25
by SL89
Findecanor wrote: Really fun project! Lots of geeky pop culture references. Me likes
The weird glyphs after WARNING are an alphabet from Star Wars called Aurebesh. It says "DON'T EVER PUSH THERE BUTTON" ...
The words under the toggles under MAIN SYSTEM are not all intelligible. Under the first I read "JOEY". Under the others I can read "VES" and "EPH". Probably "IVES" and "STEPH".
Personally, I think that people should use the special glyphs in Aurebesh for "PH", "AE", etc.
No I can't read Aurebesh fluently.. But I have used it. Like ten years ago or so, I made a couple of lightsabers with engraved Aurebesh script. When I costume (cosplay
) kids sometime come up to me and ask for my autograph - and then I write them my name and club ID in Aurebesh script.
A HAL panel replica is on my bucket list of props to build ...
I have the Aurebesh keyboard, I have it at work specifically. So nobody can use my keyboard
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 22:14
by Madhias
I read about that overhead display guy today at heise.de on the toilet!
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 22:22
by webwit
On the toilet's overhead display?
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 22:23
by Muirium
Oh, you've got one of those fancy Japanese bidets! Very chic in the valley, I hear. Sergey won't leave the room without a "family wash", no matter what.
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 22:26
by Redmaus
macmakkara wrote: hmm... i don't get these... propably because i see this at work everyday
So cool, is that a helicopter cockpit? Or a plane? I can also see the trackball!
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 23:09
by XMIT
macmakkara wrote: hmm... i don't get these... propably because i see this at work everyday
NH90 huh? That's a big helicopter. Do you fly them, fix them, what?
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 23:19
by Findecanor
After some quick googling, I find it likely to be a
NH90 helicopter.
Finnish Army?
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 23:21
by XMIT
Findecanor wrote: After some quick googling, I find it likely to be a
NH90 helicopter.
Finnish Army?
It's definitely an NH90. The photo that macmakkara supplied had NH90 in the URI.
Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 23:22
by seebart
webwit wrote: On the toilet's overhead display?
Brilliant.
Posted: 26 Aug 2015, 10:05
by macmakkara
Im mechanic. At the moment im doing assembly.