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== About Prototyping Projects == | == About Prototyping Projects == | ||
A | A prototyping project should have a goal. It should demonstrate something specific that will be useful in constructing a cockpit | ||
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Putting goals into writing will help clarify why you are doing a prototype, rather than just building the thing to use in your cockpit. | |||
Useful things to put in a plan you want to publish or present it for others to use: | |||
* Goals. Be specific to what you are trying to do. Abstractions are distractions. | |||
* Parts Lists | |||
* Pictures - limit to just enough to convey what's happening | |||
* Specific tests you plan to do with outcomes that answer specific questions related to building your project. | |||
* A record of results | |||
For hobby projects, keep the plan short. If its pages long, you've over thought it or it needs to be broken in to smaller pieces. | |||
For this section of the wiki, prototype projects will be named like this: [[Howto:Build your own Panel or Cockpit - Prototype for {PrototypeName} ]] | For this section of the wiki, prototype projects will be named like this: [[Howto:Build your own Panel or Cockpit - Prototype for {PrototypeName} ]] | ||
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| Prototype for Air Cores ||Air cores can provide continuous motion through and beyond 360 degrees. This prototype will examine alternative sources of air cores including purchased and hand built. It will explore driving circuits for them. | | Prototype for Air Cores ||Air cores can provide continuous motion through and beyond 360 degrees. This prototype will examine alternative sources of air cores including purchased and hand built. It will explore driving circuits for them. The prototype projects aims are to find solutions that work in specific situations: moving a needle 0-90°, 0-270°, 0-355°, and continuous rotation, Moving an outer dial in an instrument such as the compass card in the ADF, CDI and Heading Indicator, or even rotating the display on the attitude indicator. | ||
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| Prototype for Stepper Motors ||Stepper motors can provide rotary motion in small increments. This prototype will examine alternative sources of stepper motors | | Prototype for Stepper Motors ||Stepper motors can provide rotary motion in small increments. This prototype will examine alternative sources of stepper motors, dual drive steppers; alternative driving circuits for them and suitability for | ||
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| Prototype for ADC Circuits || A number of Analog to digital conversions will be needed to support Volume controls and Engine controls such as the throttle. | | Prototype for ADC Circuits || A number of Analog to digital conversions will be needed to support Volume controls and Engine controls such as the throttle. This prototype will examine options for rheostats of different resistances and magnetic encoders as an alternative to ADC Circuits. | ||
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| Prototype for Stepper driven Instrument Cards || A number instruments include a rotating cards representing a compass or barometric pressure or Attitude. Stepper motors are one solution to making | | Prototype for Stepper driven Instrument Cards || A number instruments include a rotating cards representing a compass or barometric pressure or Attitude. Stepper motors are one solution to making instrument cards rotate or otherwise move. See the Air Core Prototype for alternatives. | ||
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| Prototype for Instrument Rotation || An Attitude Indicator includes an element that rotates the entire display independently of the inner card representing the forward and back pitch of the aircraft. This prototype would examine Air Cores Steppers and other motors as a means of powering the rotation. | | Prototype for Instrument Rotation || An Attitude Indicator includes an element that rotates the entire display independently of the inner card representing the forward and back pitch of the aircraft. This prototype would examine Air Cores, Steppers and other motors as a means of powering the rotation. This prototype might be addressed as a separate part of the and Air Core and Stepper Prototypes. | ||
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| Prototype for Rotary Encoders || A number radios have dual tuning knobs. Detented Rotary Encoders are ideal for this purpose. ||align=center style="background: none;"|Proposed | | Prototype for Rotary Encoders || A number radios have dual tuning knobs. Detented Rotary Encoders are ideal for this purpose. ||align=center style="background: none;"|Proposed | ||
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| Prototype for Magnetic Encoders || A number instruments have adjusting knobs and a need to accurately determine the actual position of a rotating card. Magnetic encoders provide enough resolution to report position accurate to less than 1 degree. | | Prototype for Magnetic Encoders || A number instruments have adjusting knobs and a need to accurately determine the actual position of a rotating card. Magnetic encoders provide enough resolution to report position accurate to less than 1 degree. This prototype will examine rotary encoders as an alternative to | ||
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