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DIY Multi-Projector geometric Warping and Blending for X-Plane

Introduction This article is about setting up multi-projector visuals on a cylindrical screen for a flight simulator home cockpit. There are three image transformations one will need to accomplish for it to work properly. Figure 1: Sample three projector system (left). Distorted images and overlaps when projecting from X-Plane without warping & blending (center). Properly …

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Simulation of “Smoke in the Cockpit”

After finalizing an almost complete Boeing 737 Flight Simulator, I thought about going one step forward and trying to simulate emergency situations. Smoke in the Cockpit is one of them, and not a funny one (See for instance the fatal Swissair SR111 Accident, where a fire with the flight entertainment system generated heavy smoke and …

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Microsoft wants your kids to play games 15 hours a day!

Like many parents we use Microsoft Family Safety to limit screen time of our children. It turns out that the default screen time is … 15 HOURS PER DAY !!!!! So when you register a Microsoft device (e.g. Windows computer or Xbox) for your 9 year old, the default screen time for your 9 year …

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Bye Bye USB, Welcome Ethernet

I’ve just removed and replaced the last OpenCockpits Hardware, the Forward Overhead Panel, which was connected via USB to the flight simulator. Apart from the extensive wiring needed, USB devices by OpenCockpits were quite difficult to use because a) their communication protocol is not “Open” as the name misleadingly suggests, and b) the OpenCockpits USB …

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