A week ago I ordered 4 7-segment displays and a MAX7219 board from Loungepilot after I chatted with Kev from Loungepilot a bit about the format of the PCBs and the cabling. Today I could pick up my parcel and I was excited to check it all out. Let me start by saying that I’m really happy with the service provided by Kev, even before I ordered! Let’s check out what is in the box 🙂
read more...Up till now, I was using Wordpress for this site. Over the past few months, I got fed up with all the Wordpress and plugin updates (I get an email from Plesk stating that there are updates). Nowadays, it looks like you can’t run with current versions for more than a week. This made me look into an alternative that I already use for another site of mine: Pelican. Pelican is a static site generator, powered by Python.
read more...A few days ago, I ordered some more items from Opencockpits for my 747 MCP build. The package dropped on my doorstep today and I was eager to check out what I received. I’m very interested in the quality of the 747 MCP panels. Should be good though, as I bought a fine 737 NAV radio panel from them years ago.
read more...Last week I ordered a few I/O cards from Opencockpits. Two days ago, on march 26, the shipment arrived. In this post I’ll describe the basic I/O cards from Opencockpits and how they work together, as I discover that myself 🙂
read more...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.
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