Flight Simulator Hardware For Arduino, PI, and/or Windows
Budget: $50 – $0 USD
I am learning how to fly and I have setup a flight simulator in my home. Sadly there are products that do not interface well with the software so there is a program called SPAD.next. This program resides on the PC with the flight simulator to provide control of the sim via certain hardware. However, again, sadly some hardware is not compatible with SPAD.next. Because of this they created Arduino control that SPAD.next can then control anything basically on the Ardruino board.
So, I have a piece of hardware that is plugged into the PC via USB that shows up on the PC as a Serial device. I am able to send commands to the device via Putty easily. So I want the Arduino to control it instead. I have a Arduino UNO and a USB Shield. So once I have the Arduino controlling the Serial device (both read and write), I then need to have SPAD.next control the Arduino board. SPAD.next uses a CMDMessanger library to send and receive commands from the Arduino. Also, secondary, I would like to use a few pins to turn on LEDs on my hardware and also allow me to add my own buttons that I can send commands to the Arduno using pins.
I have attached all the information I have on it.
- Serial Commands for the actual hardware device (Attached FCUSDK).
- SPAD.next Communication information Wiki (This allows control of the Arduino via SPAD.next) - https://github.com/c0nnex/SPAD.neXt/wiki/Serial-Connection
- SPAD.next Arduino Demo Program - https://github.com/c0nnex/SPAD.neXt/wiki/Demo-Ino-Snippet
- SPAD.next Program - https://www.spadnext.com/home.html
- Actual Hardware piece - https://www.cpflight.com/en/fcu320full-prod-34.php
So, I have a piece of hardware that is plugged into the PC via USB that shows up on the PC as a Serial device. I am able to send commands to the device via Putty easily. So I want the Arduino to control it instead. I have a Arduino UNO and a USB Shield. So once I have the Arduino controlling the Serial device (both read and write), I then need to have SPAD.next control the Arduino board. SPAD.next uses a CMDMessanger library to send and receive commands from the Arduino. Also, secondary, I would like to use a few pins to turn on LEDs on my hardware and also allow me to add my own buttons that I can send commands to the Arduno using pins.
I have attached all the information I have on it.
- Serial Commands for the actual hardware device (Attached FCUSDK).
- SPAD.next Communication information Wiki (This allows control of the Arduino via SPAD.next) - https://github.com/c0nnex/SPAD.neXt/wiki/Serial-Connection
- SPAD.next Arduino Demo Program - https://github.com/c0nnex/SPAD.neXt/wiki/Demo-Ino-Snippet
- SPAD.next Program - https://www.spadnext.com/home.html
- Actual Hardware piece - https://www.cpflight.com/en/fcu320full-prod-34.php