the sim is coming along, next on the agenda is 3d printing the knee panel that controls brightness

i kinda wanna hook that into the actual room lighting too

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3D printed a quick and dirty AFDS panel, as its really the last set of buttons i need in the sim never to have to use the mouse.

don’t have the patience or equipment to backlight the text properly on this one so i just used colored filament

the three buttons are functional

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getting in an early sunday flight from SJC to SEA, 3D printed and hastily assembled transponder doing well

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taking the sim from philly to seattle and the real time weather over ohio is painting some nasty looking shades on the ol radar

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I repaired my old Thrustmaster rudder pedals. That’s the one I upgraded using an Arduino Pro Micro before (PeerTube, YouTube) to get rid of their old D-Sub connector so this device is really old and probably belongs into a museum. I doubt I’d get any replacement parts for this from the vendor nowadays.

Their sliding beds are made of some sort of plastic and this started to become brittle over the years. When I noticed that one side was coming apart I found several more hair fractures so I had to stop playing with the pedals for a while.

Yesterday I went with one of the sliding beds to the Swablab, our local maker space, and considered cutting and milling new parts of wood, when a fellow maker suggested to use some leftover HPL pieces for the job.

This was far less complicated compared to what I had in mind and I went for it. After a few minutes in the workshop I ended up with two new sliding beds that I mounted today. Worked like a charm.

I went with Liquid Moly LM47 for some lube, simply because I have a tube of that around from working on the car. That’s grease for stuff like bearings and probably overkill for the job.

Couldn’t be happier. The pedals are back into service and feel even better than before (probably thanks to the new grease) and I avoided once more going for expensive modern replacements. I’m also probably the only one with rudder pedals with wood aesthetic now 🤓

wiring and programming of flap gauge v1 is complete - in perfect time with the sim as well

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heading out of las vegas returning to seattle on the JOKR5 departure

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