they dont say he's wrong. They do worse, and imply that he might be totally right, but it doesn't matter. Because they dont care enough to do anything about it.
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they dont say he's wrong. They do worse, and imply that he might be totally right, but it doesn't matter. Because they dont care enough to do anything about it.
Oh I wasn't talking about Frontier.
I just got one of those for my burfday but had the missus send it back... gonna build me own instead.
That said, pointless buying fancy stuff since Elite is still hamstrung by the 32 button input limit from 20 years ago. Plopped a grand on a high end setup over the summer and can't use half the buttons. (Throttle has 80 inputs or something mad on it!)
Very nice setup you have there. Wireless charging point on the desk?
I use the same joystick - throttle setup. Virpil. Use joystick gremlin to unlock all the buttons in game.
Watch out with the throttle usb connector also. If its the older steel connector the green cable is liable to snapping off the joint. It seems to be a common fault. the replacement they sent is redesigned
You mean my conversations elsewhere?
Have to say the thing that caught my eye was the Lego.
I used to use Roccat Power Grid - sadly now discontinued - it was great as an immersive extension to the HOTAS and keyboard. I may look into Matric that looks somewhat similar should I ever dip back in to ED...
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I've tried a few different apps and things with Elite but none of them worked for me.
Gameglass was ok when it worked but I always got connectivity issues with it.
Yup. Ordered a decent puck on the amazons, dismantled it and routed out a hole underneath to recess it. To be fair, it's about as reliable as Odyssey. Works better when the phone isn't in a case.
Oh yeah - already went through it. Couldn't handle the wait for a replacement so I just resoldered it and added a few layers of shrink wrap around the bend point to reinforce it.
I did the joystick gremlin thing originally for the throttle, but to be honest it was a rampant pain in the backside. I'm far from versed in PCs being a lifelong Mac user. Feels like every time I sit down to play, I have to run loads of different programs before I can even start, between Joystick Gremlin, vJoy, EDDN, VoiceAttack.. I ended up binning them off for simplicity, and use the throttle in "keyboard mode" where it everything over button 33 is a keyboard press. (Which doesn't work overly well, and you can't specify which keyboard press goes where, so the switch I use for the cargo scoop pauses the game every time.)
Yea I've seen a lot of people do that on social media/tubes and whatnot. I'd do it myself if I had a good enough desk and a router
Alexa order a router.
I have the Razorback kit from The Mandalorian still sitting sealed from last year's chrimbo. And the Big Bang Theory set unopened as well from the year before that. My daughter would lose her absolute mind anytime I try building stuff without her, although she's almost seven now so can be "trusted to help".
(My favourite bit tho is my Lego Stephen Hawking)
The pi I use with inara is just a rpi3 hooked up to the internet and running linux, so nice and simple.
I have several others which might be interesting for project ideas:
RPI1 - this was my first and just runs RISCOS. It is painfully slow!
RPI2 - A battery powered digital camera in a lunchbox
RPI2 - security camera overlooking my car
The rest are zero's with wi-fi.
Air quality monitor - using bits from pimoroni.com
Cloud - this reads the weather from the met office then displays it in the form of an animation on a model cloud
- Naturewatch - this is a simple, battery powered daytime trailcam.
- Anilcam - infra red trailcam. I designed and had my own pcb's made for this one.
Anicam has a IR filter and this picture shows the insides - I've mounted it in to birdbox and power it with a usb batterypack.
I did have a pi that ran riscos and elite in my old landy (I sold the car so pi is repurposed!)
- The controller runs from 2 x pre built boards here that plug in to a usb port so no pi is used.
Next projects
I am in the process of designing controller v2 which has so far got an rfid reader and rotary encoder working.
Mp3 player for the car
RPI2 - A battery powered digital camera in a lunchbox
RPI2 - security camera overlooking my car
The rest are zero's with wi-fi.
Air quality monitor - using bits from pimoroni.com
Cloud - this reads the weather from the met office then displays it in the form of an animation on a model cloud
- Naturewatch - this is a simple, battery powered daytime trailcam.
- Anilcam - infra red trailcam. I designed and had my own pcb's made for this one.
Anicam has a IR filter and this picture shows the insides - I've mounted it in to birdbox and power it with a usb batterypack.
I did have a pi that ran riscos and elite in my old landy (I sold the car so pi is repurposed!)
- The controller runs from 2 x pre built boards here that plug in to a usb port so no pi is used.
Next projects
I am in the process of designing controller v2 which has so far got an rfid reader and rotary encoder working.
Mp3 player for the car
How you can keep it in the box is beyond me.
Like the Borg all sets get assimilated into the Asp Scout though
I have a mate who did something similar but I believe he used an Arduino board and it connects to his pc.
Very very very nice, mate.
Mine are all doing typical run of the mill duty, one is running BrewPi and monitors my homebrew fermenters (not that I've done any of that in a few years since the kid came along), one's running OctoPrint for my 3D printer, and most of the rest are dedicated retro gaming emulators of some sort. Replaced my old Amiga one with an FPGA setup, so now that's sitting there looking bored. The notion of building an IR security camera is bloody brilliant.
How you can keep it in the box is beyond me.
Like the Borg all sets get assimilated into the Asp Scout though
I have the Lego Marvel Helicarrier, three different Marvel Quinjets, the Milano and a Millenium Falcon lego.
ALL MINE!!!
