Apollo DSKY Replica for KSP

[KK4TEE]

After the experience I gained from my first hardware project I decided to try for something a little less kerbal and a little more realistic. After learning how to produce 3D models for a 3D printer I finally came up with a replica of the Apollo Display and Keyboard (DSKY). It is based on an Arduino and displays data from KSP by using Telemachus and a python script that I wrote. I have yet to program noun/verb commands like the real DSKY, but all of the hardware is there for it.

The final product:

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I've also been working on a new python script to take the information from Telemachus and not only pipe it to the arduino, but also display a Navball on a 2nd screen:

Like my previous work I've released all of my work under the GPLv3, so have fun with it if you'd like to make your own!

Code and designs are hosted on GitHub

Link to my FlightTerminal project. It needs work, but it's there if you're interested.

If you'd like more information about the project I highly reccomending reading through the comments on the Reddit Post about the project.

[razark]

Nice.

I've got an idea kicking around my head to make a DSKY interface for my Raspberry Pi. I hope that if I ever get around to it, I can come up with something as nice.

[carlpilot]

Wow. This is incredible. There needs to be a big red button of some sort, though

[KK4TEE]

If you're going for a software/GUI implimentation I reccomend that you check out the basaGC plugin for Telemachus if you haven't seen it already. Before I made any of my hardware projects I loaded that onto a Toughbook and used it as my guidance system. It should be easy enough to run that on a Pi.

I'm trying to get my Navball code to run on the Pi, but the way it is currently coded it only gets around two frames per second (though it works fine on my desktop). I'm planing on completely rewritting my code in order to optimize the amount of pixel drawing in pygame to reasonable levels. I've also thought about using the Telemachus library I wrote for python like kOS and have the DSKY actually fly the ship. I mean, "How hard can it be?"

I'd love to see whatever you come up with.

[Mulbin]

Any chance you could share your Arduino code for your 7 segments? I have bought some very similar boards but have no idea how to get them to display data from KSP serial. The look like the same layout as yours with a MAX7219 chip on each board.

EDIT - apologies just read that you are not using KSP serial but your own code!

[richfiles]

It... It's so beautiful!

I really need to build something like this...

I'd use nixies for mine, but I can't afford that many.

[Sputnix]

Any progress on this KK4TEE?

[wossname]

This is pretty bad ass. Great work.

[-ctn-]

This is totally brilliant. I may try something like this. I have two arduino boards just begging to be put into something. Oh, man. First the mod bug bit me, then math bug bit me. Apparently now so is the engineering bug.

[tg626]

I'd really like to get that text display up and running - after some effort I installed Python, and curses 2.2 to get rid of a "_curses module not found" error when I attempted to run flightterminal.py

Now I get the terminal, but it says ### RADIO CONTACT LOST ### at the bottom even though I have telemacus installed, running, and I can get the default web browser display open.

Any ideas? (Win7, Python 2.7)

Edited July 15, 2015 by tg626