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Title: GorkleBox
Post by: RTGorkle on September 25, 2004, 05:38:34 AM

Don't throw out that old USB stick...

http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~pchance/gorklebox/index.html

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Post by: TBolt A-10 on September 25, 2004, 12:31:34 PM

Nice work!  I'm impressed.

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Post by: airbumba on September 25, 2004, 12:45:47 PM

Wow. That's cool, good stuff, .

....didn't they arrest you in a cabin deep in the woods somewhere in Northern California a few years back?.    ;)

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Post by: DREDIOCK on September 25, 2004, 06:30:18 PM

Wow thats really really cool.

What is do? LOL

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Post by: mechanic on September 26, 2004, 02:18:46 PM

sweet!

i'll take 50!

bat

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Post by: SunKing on September 26, 2004, 02:48:47 PM

But in a fight you dont have time to take hands off your stick to adjust trim and zooms and flap , it needs to be on throttle or stick.

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Post by: mars01 on September 27, 2004, 10:01:48 AM

Nice Gorkle,

Was it easy to identify where to hook up the switches on the PCB?

How did you figure that out?


BTW - taking your hand off the throttle to adjust certain things, without looking for a key on a keyboard is HOTAS as far as I am concerned.  The big thing is not having to take you eye off the bandit.

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Post by: RTGorkle on September 28, 2004, 01:29:47 AM

All the original tactile switches are still on the boards and are easy to identify - you just attach the wires directly to the back of the board where the switch terminals come though.

Yeah, it aint HOTAS, but you can stick it down on your table close to your throttle hand and use it without looking. If you were building a custom cockpit you could easily populate the front and side panels with all manner of switches instead of putting them in a box like I've done.

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Post by: RTSigma on September 28, 2004, 01:56:28 AM

VERY NICE, I might be asking for some help once I can start working on my simpit.

With something like that, it could be used in many many different ways.

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Post by: RTGorkle on September 28, 2004, 02:18:20 AM

No worries, be happy to help. It ain't difficult and I'm sure you'll figure it out.

BTW, my RT prefix is for "Red Tails". I think The Rolling Thunder arrived just after RedTails started using RT. We don't use it any more as you guys outnumber us. I'll change my forums profile one day :)

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Post by: RTSigma on September 28, 2004, 02:42:35 AM

Nothing wrong with having an RT prefix ;)

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Post by: AcId on September 28, 2004, 03:27:06 PM

can do the same buy dismantling a usb keyboard ;) the pcb is about 2inches x 4inches

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Post by: AcId on September 28, 2004, 03:27:19 PM

double post