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Project 1 update: Teensy board

Last week I came across info about the Teensy board. From the PJRC website:

The Teensy is a complete USB-based microcontroller development system, in a very small footprint, capable of implementing many types of projects. All programming is done via the USB port. No special programmer is needed, only

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‘New’ CPU and SSD purchased

For my forward view desktop, I purchased a used Q6700 CPU to replace my Core 2 Duo CPU (E2180). This Quad Core processor is the fastest processor my MSI P6N Diamond mainboard will support. Since I want to purchase some OpenCockpits hardware, I won’t be investing too much in the desktop at this time.

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NAV radio project update

Well, I have spent some time gathering all of the parts needed for the radio and have looked into a way to display the right numbers on the displays. I felt a bit victorious when I was fooling around with the PoKeys software and was able to display something with the LED matrix test.

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Project 1: 737 NAV radio project

This week I decided to put the PoKeys56U card to good use. I want to build a NAV radio myself and have it communicate with X-Plane 9. I will split the project in 3 parts:

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PoKeys56U card received

Today, I received the PoKeys56U card from http://www.flightsimparts.eu! It landed on my doorstep fast, so that’s great service (thanks Wendy!).

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