Crash

The cunning plan worked and the soldering is now done. A few minor jobs to do the sketch and test. Will put up some photos tomorrow.

ev blog #343 01.06.2023 Dear Friends, Today is the first day of summer (finally!) and it's time to start the races even that was announced before. To participate, join one of the multiplayer race servers (they are called WarBRD Race Tournament =Group A= and WarBRD Race Tournament =Group B=) and fly the track on the selected aircraft (Bf-109 F-4 in Group A and Yak-1 series 69 in Group B) as fast as you can - the number of attempts during the qualification stage is not limited. The completion time in each attempt will be recorded automatically, the best time in the group will be taken into account. Please note that after the end of the event all the participants who have flown the track at least once will receive a small gift on our website. If you are playing the Steam version of IL-2, then the IL-2 and Steam accounts must be linked so that the server could identify you (your nickname must be visible in the main menu of the game). If you have not linked your accounts yet, you can do it quickly - click on the automatically generated pilot name in the main menu of the Steam version of the game and then either enter your IL-2 login and password or go through registration there. If you wish to make your results eligible for the race finals and receive special gifts from VIRPIL Controls and 1C Game Studios, please visit Virpil-servers.com and register there - you'll get an unique code via e-mail. You have to enter this code in the multiplayer chat on the racing server to have your race results tied to VIRPIL Controls account. You can view the results of all participants at any time here. The qualification stage ends on June 11. Ten selected finalists will participate in the finals on June 17th - three fastest racers and other finalists will receive special gifts from 1C Game Studios and VIRPIL Controls. The discussion of the races is going on in Discord on VIRPIL and IL-2 Great Battles channels. The races rules are available here. We wish good luck to all participants! In other news - at the moment several aircraft are in the works as usual. We'll love to tell you about them in detail closer to their release, but today we can at least show you how the first two aircraft of Flying Circus Vol. III look in the sim at the moment (other planes including collector ones are either at an eariler development stage to show or were already shown on screenshots before). Here are Halberstadt D.II... ... and Nieuport 11.

New cunning plan, I have ordered a 3D printer belt and pulley, Hopefully this will work out.

Thanks Wingy, most of the soldering is now done. My original rubber band on the throttle has now got a split so I will need to come up with a new cunning plan. Might get some photos up tomorrow.

I remember the feeling

Base now complete and soldering commenced.

How many buttons and axis are on your sketch Dennis?

Will do Wingy, I have fitted all the switches, so I need to solder the wires and get Leonardo talking to the computer.

Thanks Dennis I will give that a go.

Glider due in the Autumn https://il2sturmovik.com/news/797/5103-patch-roadmap-and-special-event-announcement/?_gl=1*ujfmby*_ga*MzI5OTQxMjcuMTY3ODk3Nzc2NQ..*_ga_M3ND9NY3EC*MTY4NDM0Nzk5OC4zMjMuMS4xNjg0MzQ4MTA3LjAuMC4w

More progress, as I have decided to mount the Leonardo in the button box on the lever I had to feed the wires from the collective pot up the lever along with the USB cable. This meant taking the plate off the side to get access to the collective pot, and taking the lever off the pivot to allow the cables to be fed up the tube. All back together now.

The throttle thumb stick the bracket holding the back of the box The joystick joystick position in the box with the hat on More later

More progress, I have soldered the 2 pots and have roughly positioned the throttle complete with thumb stick. I will put some photos up soonish in my build thread.

More progress on the base I found a small knurled knob for the pot and used a piece of elastic shoelace joined with an electrical connector. I had to cut the top mounting on the damper as it wasnt wide enough to take the top bearing. After it was all bolted in position it worked well. The next part will be the throttle and thumb switch.

Who are these grown ups of which you speak?

The Leonardo works. BUT it isnt very obvious how to load a downloaded sketch or even how to download the sketch. After quite a while I have the board set up as a 5 axis controller and it tested OK. Now to find the sketch I need, that is 4 axis, one 4 way hat switch and maybe 10 or so buttons.

So far I have repurposed a pair of speaker wall mount brackets for the sides. Then marked out the travel of the arm and the pivot point. I transfer drilled the up and down stops, pivot point, and the two spacer bolts. I then drilled the pivot bearing mounting holes and fitted the bearings. I used a long 8mm bolt as the pivot and drilled the arm 8mm and bolted it in position I was going to use gears to rotate the pot but the ones I got from amazon were too small. I thought the best way would be to use pulleys. I made the large one for the pivot out of a plastic waste pipe union and put a piece of MDF which I cut out with a hole saw to center it All bolted up it looks like this More later.

Based on this one https://www-cruzdesanandres-com.translate.goog/foro/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3314&sid=01462609f413cd14c6a275284563d82a&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB

I have just realised that we are going away for a few days starting on the 21st so I cant make it. Should be there for the rest of it though. How many missions will we be running?

Slow progress, the Leonardo has just arrived so I will try out the joystick library this week

I think it might be an idea to look at making next year a Dogz day out if Legends havent got a date for 2024

I am having a nightmare with the project. I cant find a sketch that will work with my board and the damper set up is far too stiff. Looks like buying a leonardo is the only way forward with this.

I am not doing the columns and rows stuff. Its a mega plus board https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09C1S4TW8/?coliid=IDE4DQ6ANF77N&colid=3GJ0HH41UWZCS&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it Looks to me like it does 53 buttons

Question for Wingy, when setting up Arduino in sketch, do I have to tell it how many buttons I am going to use or does it just see what I use when I press them?

I have started "cutting metal" as we used to say in the aircraft industry. More info and photos next week.