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flightsim:msfs2020:minitiller

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Mini-Tiller Box

Created a 3D Printed Box with a small (about 40% actual size) 737 Nose Gear Tiller, a miscellaneous slider linear potentiometer, and 2 misc. push buttons.

This box has a Arduino Micro Pro in it, which is one of those which looks like a Joystick to Windows, if the right software library is loaded. Initially, I wrote code to read the Tiller (which has a Hall-effect sensor and 2 magnets) and via the Arduino Interpolation code, converted the range of motion to 0 - 1023.

Later on, I added 2 LEDs, and using the MobiFlight system, flushed the sketch to convert the Micro Pro to a MobiFlight board. This allows the device input Tiller and Slider, the 2 push buttons, and the 2 LEDs to all work with MSFS 2020.

This is using MobiFlight 9.6.

Arduino PinFunction
A0Hall effect - Tiller
A2Linear Potentiometer - Slider
2Push Button 1
4Push Button 2
5LED White
7LED Red
flightsim/msfs2020/minitiller.1673311355.txt.gz · Last modified: 2023/01/10 00:42 by dwheele