Hemp’s Flight Sim Stuff

  That is a screenshot of USB Probe on my iMac, showing the Hemptsick USB descriptor... 3 axes, 64 buttons. But it can contain whatever combo you want. It is a live USB device, a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W Linux device, costing USD $15 + a microSD card. It's a 4 core ARM64, 1GHz device. It's a full computer.  The deal, eventually, is... you download a .img file, that is a full Linux OS. Then, you burn it to a microSD card of your choice, with a program like Raspberry Pi Imager. Plug in the microSD card into a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W stick... boot up, and plug in the USB cable to the Zero 2W, and the other end to your gaming rig (iMac, in this test)... and it boots up and shows up on my iMac as a USB joystick. Inside the .img, there are the following, at the moment. a Custom compiled Linux Kernel, v.6.16.3 to be exact, with the RealTime feature turned on, a program, tentatively called hempstick-hid-import, a config file, tentatively called hempstick-hid.conf, a systemd unit file to auto...

They fit. A real Left Aux Console was measured with a caliper and a few other hand tools and 3D modeled, years ago. This year, I acquired the real landing gear module. I didn't even know what those 3 holes were for... but I modeled them anyway. And today, I finally 3D printed it (with some extra excessive stiffening I am regretting now). Now, I know what those 3 holes are for. And they fit perfectly. I think I will just use the real landing gear module, and the real landing gear panel. Simply because I can. ;-)  

7" Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 on the right Aux Console, fits..... almost perfectly. I had to cut about 2mm into the rim of the aux console on the upper right hand corner. Other than that, it fits right in. 7" is still a tad small for fat fingers, like mine. But, it's workable. Plus, I got a wireless BT/4GHz keyboard touchpad combo thing hooked up to it. Hey, it even comes with a red dot laser pointer. I think a magnetic holder at about where it sits now will do just fine. Of course, in anticipation of my own control stick to be slotted in where the stick is supposed to go, I did added bottom panel, and some ribs inside to reinforce the "slot", and increase the rigidity of that plastic thing. After all, this thing is 3D printed plastic, not cast aluminum. Whether it's strong enough when missile are chasing up my six remains to be seen. I am thinking about putting up a long 12.5" wide screen on top of the glare shield as the 2nd screen. You know, one of...