>I've never seen this solution out there, should I give it a>try? Hi Christopher,This "idea" is used quite often already. See the examples at the Opencockpits website, programmed either in IOCards or in SIOC.Nothing new, a good approach, if you do not want to spent a lot of money for a dual concentric rotary.And by the way, for COM the steps should be .01 Mhz. Note also that a lot of frequencies are no valid VHF frequencies (i.e. ending at 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9). I have programmed my FSCONV software in such a way that these invalid frequencies are skipped...Cheers,Nicohttp://www.nicokaan.nl

Christopher,Another approach is to look at the speed of the rotary. If it is turned slowly, increment in small steps. If it being turnedfaster than some threshold, use large increment steps.Mikewww.mikesflightdeck.comwww.mikesflightdeckbooks.com

Hello all,a short update:some minor changes have taken place over the last few weeks, e.g. we really turned down the DMUX-technology for controlling the 7seg displays (I should have listened... http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/wink.gif ), we're now using AS1106 driver ICs from AustriaMicroSystems instead.Also, a lot of new things can be found on our homepage, http://www.sim-modules.at if you're interested http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/wink.gifThe project management stuff and all the administrative things needed for the diploma thesis itself are mostly done, so now the actual work can start... stay tuned! ^^best regards,Chris HauserSim-Modules Development Team

Hi,>Also, a lot of new things can be found on our homepage,>http://www.sim-modules.at if you're interested>http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/wink.gifVery Nice.However, could you elaborate a little bit on what is really new? The modules I see, are also already available from other manufacturers, or am I missing something? Best regards,Nicohttp://www.nicokaan.nl

>However, could you elaborate a little bit on what is really>new? The modules I see, are also already available from other>manufacturers, or am I missing something? Hi Nico,well what I really ment to say was, that we added some new content to our website - we are of course aware of the fact, that we're not really devolping something "brand new" - we are not really a "Sim-Part-Manufacturer" nor a "Supplier Company" (well, not yet?) but the development of our "Sim-Modules" is done as a diploma thesis at a technical collage for electronical engineering.But I'm really happy to see so many people being interested in our project, and as I said in my initial post - we indeed plan to release the whole thing one day; either as a commercial product or as an open source project.Anyway, thanks to all of you for your ongoing interest, it is really a motivation for us to do our work as good as possible! :-)So long,best regardsChris Hauser

Nicohttp://www.nicokaan.nlHi Chris,Okay clear. Chances that you will graduate are high, I'd say. Good Luck.Regards,Nico

Just another short update (for those who are interested http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/icon_wink.gif)The programming work for the 7-segment-display-driver is now done...The driver can show digits between 0 and 9, some letters and symbols (whatever a 7seg display is able to show), the brightness can be regulated via software in 16 steps, the comma is fully software controlled and all digits can blink in two blinking-speeds.as you can imagine, the code has gotten quite big and chaotic - so in the next few days I'll have to sort some things out, comment everything and so on... so that I can let some teachers have a look on it as well http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/icon_biggrin.gifMore information (AND a also a short video http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/icon_cool.gif) can be obtained here: http://haus-air.at/sim-modules/index.php?dufts1=news〈=so long, thanks for your ongoing interest! http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/icon_wink.gifbest regards,Christopher HauserSim-Modules Development Teamhttp://www.sim-modules.at/

Hi all!Finally, I've found some time to update my homepage again...One and a half month to go to our final exam, now there's still a lot of documentation work that has to be done...But the good news you may be interested in:The project "The Sim-Modules" is nearly finished! :-)A new main module has been designed, offering the possibility to simply connect up to 64 switches, buttons or LEDs, 8 rotary encoders and 8 analogue axes to the PC... Via the new control panel, it is possible to link each digital input with either an FSUIPC-Command, a Keyboard Event or a mouse click, everything 'as simple as it gets' http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/icon_wink.gifThe other modules, like the DME, the XPNDR or the COM/NAV-Module are working fine, in combination with the software everything really ended up with true plug-and-play functionality... well, we're still testing (sometimes it continues to be 'plug-and-pray' rather than play http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/grin.gif), but so far I'm really satisfied http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/icon_wink.gifAnd something I'm really proud of - the first 'real' big simulator project already started to use Sim-Modules technology....check it out on www.sim-modules.at http://www.haus-air.at/smileys/wink.gifSo long, best regards!Christopher HauserSim-Modules Development Team