๐Ÿ”– https://www.digitaljoshua.com/modular-flight-simulator-panels-and-button-boxes/

Not often Iโ€™m mind blown by what some people come up with to scratch their itch. Swapping panels easily thanks to cable management kits is a great and cheap idea.

https://beko.famkos.net/2025/06/11/15629845/

#flightsim #homeCockpit #simpit

Modular Flight Simulator Panels and Button Boxes - DigitalJoshua - Joshua Marius

This video shows you how to build modular Button Boxes or Flight Simulator Panels, without the need of 3D Printers or extra hardware.

DigitalJoshua - Joshua Marius

I was very busy yesterday night to get that #Macross #VF1 vibe going for my cockpit HUD ๐Ÿค“

Even draw a (debug) border where the physical limits of my octagon display frame is in real-life ๐Ÿ˜

Still slowly rewriting the code for the UI elements, finding bugs, optimizing, tweaking, getting there ๐Ÿ‘Œ

#EliteDangerous #SimPit #HomeCockpit

VFD segment displays in HTML/CSS for my SimPit

So I dunno if you know what a #VFD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display) is but Iโ€™m a sucker for these โ€“ at least virtually.

Games like #RebelGalaxyOutlaw perfected the look and this is where I want to go with my #Arwes HUD app for my #EliteDangerous / #X4Foundations home cockpit too.

The segment displays are heavily inspired by #AugmentedUI project (https://augmented-ui.com/) where Iโ€™ll borrow some more elements. Learned the neat fake scan lines from there too. And yes the 8 segment display works by shifting bits under the hood ๐Ÿค“ This isnโ€™t really needed for an app but I have plans to add some real segment displays eventually (I do have a whole box full with these!) so I wanted to know how to implement this anyway.

Video from an earlier stage in the development demos the scan line effect.

The bars are configured with parameters in size, count, percent, colours and thresholds ๐Ÿ˜ I also added a random chance of 5% to shift the hue a little bit because just as in real life nothing is perfect.

And yes they are fully themed so switching the colour theme also affects the virtual VFDs.

Iโ€™m also going to replace the older horizontal bars, that look way too boring in comparison.

Itโ€™s still very early but I hope to get some rad animations going too. See https://www.hudsandguis.com/home/2022/retro-digital-dashboards to get an idea in which direction this is going ๐Ÿค“

See the dedicated project page https://SimPit.dev for more details on this #Macross #VF1 inspired #cockpit panel.

https://beko.famkos.net/2025/05/04/vfd-segment-displays-in-html-css-for-my-simpit/

#arwes #augmentedUi #cockpit #EliteDangerous #homeCockpit #macross #RebelGalaxyOutlaw #simpit #VF1 #VFD #x4foundations

Vacuum fluorescent display - Wikipedia

Quick demo time: I got a touch display 17.3โ€ณ that will reโ€ฆ

Quick demo time: I got a touch display 17.3โ€ณ that will replace my rather old one in my VF-1 inspired cockpit panel.

Pick your poison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX4LsyqYPCA / https://makertube.net/w/nCopvNbkvkwR9XcG5QPQ3i

Mostly because of the bad viewing angle. Iโ€™m not a huge fan of touch but sometimes it is really useful and if I already spend money why not go the extra mile ๐Ÿค“

https://beko.famkos.net/2025/05/01/15629759/

#Arduino #arwes #homeCockpit #HUD #macross #ReactJS #simpit #Valkyrie #VF1 #VF1 #ViperPit

Short Demo: New 17.3 touch display for my VF-1 inspired home cockpit panel

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Short Demo: New 17.3 touch display for my VF-1 inspired home cockpit panel

https://makertube.net/w/nCopvNbkvkwR9XcG5QPQ3i

Short Demo: New 17.3 touch display for my VF-1 inspired home cockpit panel

PeerTube

I'm not allowed to use the tag #HomeCockpit on #Twitch.

#Simpit is fine.
#Cockpit too.

Not at home though!1eleven

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Updated https://simpit.dev/ - home of the #Space #PewPew #SimPit inspired by a #VF1 Valkyrie cockpit (#Macross)

That's a glorified #DIY joystick controller with an LCD ('MFD') and plenty of #RGB for my #Linux PC

Newest additions are my #XR sheniagans (and some notes on #Breezy and the usage of #IMU data as #headtracker), the games #AceCombat and #XWVM (#XWing / #TIEFighter) and a bunch of videos were updated.

Best viewed WITH an ad-blocker and patience (slow af).

#Gaming #HomeCockpit

Primary Buffer Panel - The Simulated Cockpit On A Linux PC For More Immersion In Space Pew Pew

A glorified DIY joystick controller with an LCD ("MFD") and plenty of RGB.