carlosfandango

@Freshmeat thanks, kind of confirms what I thought was the case... glad to see I probably haven't spent money on things that are no good. This time anyway! Of course, coming from China, it will be the end of Jan before I see much of it.

Still waiting on parts for my panel....! Looks like it will take a while before I'm at the same stage (ha ha) as some of you chaps on here. I'm hoping to machine some parts for my meters today, these are going to use little stepper motors so I can get a 270 degree needle swing. I'm also planning on making a somewhat elaborate altitude meter with an embedded 7 segment display and a stepper driven needle. Hopefully this will come together OK, when I have more to display other than just hot air, I'll post some images. I still have a few questions... Although I'm going to be using the Arduino as my main board (actually a ChipKit Max32) I'm planning on running a number of other controls through one of the common USB MAME boards that you can on Ebay, amongst other places. Does anyone have any experience of these? For example, can keyboard actions such as time warp be assigned to buttons connected to one of these things? This is what I'm talking about: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2x-ZERO-DELAY-ARCADE-USB-ENCODER-PC-TO-JOYSTICK-FOR-ARCADE-MAME-FIT-HAPP-PARTS-/261481039277?pt=UK_Video_Games_Coin_Operated_MJ&hash=item3ce17c05ad -CF

Thanks for the welcome :-) I'm not very far along with my project yet, I have designed some physical gauges using stepper motors, so if these get built and work I will try to post some relevant details. I'm also working on some fancy joysticks that have multiple axes. -CF

If these are the same displays that I'm planning on using (they might not be exactly the same of course) then you need to check that the Dout pin (24) is not connected to the +V line. It's a common fault on these boards and eventually fries them. Apologies if you already know this. Hi, I'm just about to get started on a physical panel for my ksp. To introduce myself: I am an electronics engineer working in the film/TV biz, I have a lot of experience as a result so I might be able to help with any electronics problems or questions you may have. Obviously though, I do not know everything there is to know!