A while ago I looked into upgrading my desktop PC, which I use primarily for flight simming. The old i5-6600 was getting too slow and the mainboard didn’t have much room for expansion. There was only one ‘fast’ SATA connector and it was a very basic board.
read more...Past week I’ve been look at some real Boeing hardware. I kind of got inspired by two real B732/733 cockpits on YouTube and I read bits here and there about modifying and gutting real hardware. This afternoon I took the plunge and ordered two radios on eBay!
read more...I recently switched from an Nvidia card (GTX780Ti 3GB) to an AMD card (RX580 8GB). The improvement I expected wasn’t really happening. X-Plane still uses OpenGL and AMD’s OpenGL support kind of sucks. I really hope Vulkan will improve this. I also don’t want to pay double the price for an Nvidia card with 8 GB, so I’ll ride it out until X-Plane supports Vulkan.
read more...Today I’ve been to FSWeekend with a friend. It was nice to see what other people have built and which products will be released in the near future, like the Honeycomb Throttle Quadrant.
read more...Since my flight sim pc is a CentOS 6 desktop and I am attaching my Teensy handywork to this pc, I wanted to run the Arduino software on this pc (the Arduino software is a prerequisite to the Teensyduino software used for the Teensy boards). This proved to be a bit of a challenge, but I succeeded with the help of some information on the interwebs…
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