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Heli controls and MobiFlight

Discussion in 'DIY peripherals' started by Aerosmith, Oct 7, 2024 at 13:46.

  1. Aerosmith

    Aerosmith Active Member

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    My Motion Simulator:
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    I recently bought the Heli flight controls from @GoFlying and I'm about to connect all the wires to the Arduino board and hopefully will get everything to work. All the programming of the trim motors are done with MobiFlight. I know there is a seperate Discord server for MobiFlight projects and this is probably not the right forum. But I hate Discord and Discord hates me. I spent 3 days trying to register. Maybe I was blacklisted for not passing their CAPTCHA test too often.:mad:And Discord is just a mess. It's a big chatroom and every piece of useful information is soon lost in the noise.

    So if anyone here is also using MobiFlight and thinks this could be useful I'd like to share my work. I see that cockpit builders use MobiFlight a lot but the forum search here returns zero results.
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    Aerosmith, Oct 7, 2024 at 13:46
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  2. Aerosmith

    Aerosmith Active Member

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    My Motion Simulator:
    3DOF, AC motor
    Ok, my first advice: Don't do it like this
    Arduino-SensorBOB.jpg
    Connecting single wires with Dupont connectors is good for a quick testbench hook-up. But as soon as you plug in more than ~10 it soon gets messy and it's definitely not lasting long in a rig that is moving all the time. The bare Arduino board with the female headers and the male Dupont wires is even worse. They pop out if the wire is only slightly touched.
    Arduino-TerminalBOB.jpg
    So I ordered one of theese. It's occupied with push-lock (screw-less) terminal blocks so hopefully I'll be able to connect all the wires in a more reliable way.
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    Aerosmith, Oct 7, 2024 at 16:29
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