Do you ever feel like you missed your calling, and were meant to be touring the countryside in a motorcycle & sidecar with your well dressed badger best friend, solving minor mysteries and enjoying tea & adventure?
The G4 cube was discontinued closer to the release of the first Apple II than to today.
That's because I am allergic to GUI app builder interfaces after spending too long staring at LABVIEW / EPrime / Presentation and sorry PsychoPy too. 🤢
Hat tip to https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-mathworks_2_aerospace-app-designer-activity-7361048896678031360-b5CE 🙏 6/6
Build a cockpit-style app. No simulator needed. Use App Designer and Aerospace Toolbox to create custom apps that display flight status with built-in flight instrument components. If you’re working with similar engineering data, this is a fast way to prototype visualizations, run simulations, or just build something cool ⤵️ | 20 comments on LinkedIn
Now you and I can relive the excitement of being 9 and staring at dials in MATLAB… https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b31qlzytgb87gktyi8vdy/AerospaceFlightInstruments.m?rlkey=cf74xazbmfg4irnw1yd6k7yzf&dl=0 you’ll need that script and the Aerospace Toolbox… 🧑✈️ I did think about using stlread to change the Piper into a TIE Fighter… ⚔️
This is based on the demo here… https://uk.mathworks.com/help/aerotbx/ug/flight-instrument-components-in-app-designer.html?source=15572&s_eid=psm_15572 but rather than drag and drop with App Designer I have implemented the dashboard of dials programmatically. 5/6
It felt so magical when I was 9, and it's the origin of my ingrained 'reverse' Y Axis mode for mousing in FPS games came from. You pull back/push down to nose up – anything else is wrong! ✈️
The thrill of flying was also to be found in the vector graphics of STAR WARS arcade – which had exciting digitised movie samples (for 1982 – they did sound like AM radio on a stormy night). However, there was a distinct lack of spinny dials. 👾 3/6
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