Peter KG6LSE

HA! now I SO need to add that to my Mun lander next flight . . I was gonna head to bed . naw Iam gonna make me a KerWay tonight ! Segway makes a robotics platform " SMRP "

I own a segway ! And I am in loose contact with the inventor of the RYNO . He came to my College ( oregon tech ) and we had a very nice chat about his system . He was looking for summer help for batts .... ended up nabbing a PSU student . VIDEO of the same Seg Please pardon the batman suit . It was halloween last Year . The RYNO and Seg have a non spinning Gyro called a MEMS sensor . same kind used in a WiiMote and a Ipad. The MEMS sends data to the Main CPU and It then has a IMU of sorts to then control the PWM to the Drive motors . As fun as they are to drive , I have one as I cant drive a car and I have Really bad knees so no bike .....

^^ this ! It would make Crafts much more stable .

My thoughts .. A: as we can now can choose how full we can fill a tank pre launch . have the same Mk n pod be filled at Build time in the VAB , this way if you want a Dry pod you can have it and save the weight. B: put in as part of the right click menu a option to toggle mono in the pod . this way you can save the mono for when you cut loose the pod in the end ... C: Cross feed from near by mono IN to the pod's tank . See B . If you have the Mono ( ON ) in the pod then after you use up after the aux tanks . If you have the mono in the pod toggled off then you only can SEE the mono in the rest of the ship not in pod .. D: with this you can guage how much you need for the mission and then save the rest for re-entry ( as at some point I suspect we are gonna have to deal with Heat loads and be required to keep with in very wide reason the blunt end forward ( not as exact as Real space but with in reason ) and this is gonna need RCS at some point . EDIT . the FASA mod for Merc and Gemini has it " right "

OK so I got the VGA all done and the USB ..... http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterthethinker/11963459563/ Link to the Video of the Sim . I declare this V 1.0

I am at 90% done ...... I need to find my Longgg VGA cable and I need to find a USB hub . the screen I have is a ELO touchscreen ! so I am hoping I will not need a mouse But if I do I have a Glove rated trackpad I can put some where I may use a trackball on the right as a the cam view . I do need to fashion up a Foot rest . Again the next step is to wire it up ! Peter D

IMO make one of the tanks be a scale tank . that you can Drag long or short . A: it lets you dial in the fuel load . B: It will reduce the wobble ... I ask for one thing . EVA tethers....... Come ON! Ed White used it on Gemini,

One catch . unless you emulate the keyboard with a micontroller . many keyboard chip guts like to see a full key stroke . a normal E stop is a latching button . a normal mushroom with momentary contacts may be better off.( or taker apart the button part and some how mod the latching part ).

Ok! so I did some tinkering with the mechanics of this ab widget . I moved some things and Volla ! I just need to mount the screen and controls ! Its SICK!!! now I can Really be in a Mk1 .... and Heck I may make a semi shell for it outta plywood . It does need a ton more work but that trip to goodwill was one heck of a good investment . I need to make a decision on how I am gonna mount the screen ( not the gimbal one but a normal VGA ) and I want to see how I am gonna mount the joystick and box .. Ill tell you one thing its a beast to get in and out ... now I know am starting to grasp how the poor folks in those packed soyuz feel ( there couchs are tight on the knees too ) No wonder Gunter Wendt and his crew were needed to buckle up .

Well today I picked up a Ab thingy as a couch . 14 bucks! I need to do some welding and some cutting but its a darn good start !

At a few gigs for the game . Might I just recomend you just copy the entire KSP folder over ( provided you are on a PC ) a DVD should hold the entire game and then all the mods one can dream . ( thank you KSP team for light game code ! ) If you are on a mac ..... Use Time machine for your entire drive . Linux. Well heck you have to be a BOFH to use it and lets face it . If you can make Linux run you can probly figure out a Cron-job for it .

I know right ! . I hope it takes off! I am gonna remap the keys on the ( box) to warp .

OH! Look what I found ! http://technabob.com/blog/2013/11/23/palette-modular-controller/ You can never have too many knobs. ( unless they are not marked ) As Much as I LOVE to build .. some days COTS is the way to go ......

I moved the map and view to the stick but I still have 2ed throttle input and shutdown and stage as the box . I may remap the keys for gears and stuff

I had that joystick ...... It was sooo nice ! Its a pitty that I did not keep it ( or did it wear out! ). Iam gonna date my age here of 27.. last flight sim of any kid I ever played was Simcpoter on a AMD K6two with 3dNOW and 450MHz. ( that with jumpers in that day I over clocked to 500) 128M ram and PCI onboard GPU. 98 SE ..... Oh that was quite a while ago eh .. I paid 2 bucks for the thustmaster and I do love a good Hardware challenge . I DO wish there was twist It would make burns Much more simple ...... My ships when going up like to twist . now if I only had a translation controller . I am near Frys and have 70 bucks left on my xmas gift card . Iam gonna see what i can grab ,, I have a game PAD that works OK but its not glove friendly EDIT OK 29 bucks later and I have a logitec stick . I am on a FASA mod Gemini mission to test it . I do need to invert the throttle . the HAT is the translation and its slick

both sticks would be bang-bang via Key presses . ( I dont think the apollo had proportional RCS?! I got a top gun thrust master that has the Mech calibration sliders . Looks sweet . And has no smarts inside . So I can just read the pots and use external active circuitry. I am going to use a Window comparator and some Opto-Isolators to " fake" the key presses . Some where I have a 15 Pin ACTIVE gameport to USB adapter but Its made for Windows 98SE . Not 7 so I am not gonna hold my breath that its gonna take . OR I am gonna pick up some micro switchis from FRYs and leave all the pots in the stick . and rig up as direct * bang -bang* I run linux too but not for any games . Deb / fed / redhat /centOS/ and crunchbang

I just acquired a RC aircraft small joystick . and a Full Old game system joystick . this week I am gonna gut them for the mech parts and integrate the WASD in to them as Key commands . I wish I had my old logitech wingman 3D . that thing with a 3rd axis was sweet for helo sims in the late 90s early 2ks . Peter....

When you change your Halloween costume plans from sonic the hedgehog to Jeb. I must find my green makeup ! I knew the Old Heat suit might come in handy !

I am on a toughbook CF30 core 2 duo 1.6 GHz 4 GB ram and it works OK Win xp. I had to REALLY cut back on the textures for land and sea ect but it runs, granted I had the .18 on it. But at home I am on a 2012 mac pro tower ( boot in to W7 pro) KSP .23 off steam) as expected it has more punch then a SRB I do have a slight concern about that CPU ..... search says its in the 1.5 GHz range and is 2 core . Some what in line with my toughbook's CPU GPU combo. So there is your bottle neck . The CPU/GPU Peter

Dream job..... build and test space suits for ILC dover or the others . Or better yet be a diver for the neutral buoyancy tank .. I am a advanced diver after all Right now I am a EE for a firm in the area . I also work in the College Optics lab on LASERs .

If KSP supported more then one screen at once then it would be easy to have the map on my right screen . the IVA in the middle and the FREE view on the left ... OK one of the things I have thought of is how we can make the Software side be open to let others make there own interface . I propose a mod pack that uses 8 bit values .... This simple single word system has enough steps to do almost anything . If you know what NMEA data is for GPS then this is how the strings can be sent over serial * and yes USB to Serial is dead easy ! .. so you can send ALTO . VELO . BATT , MONO and so forth . the Micon can parse this so that the data is fed to a display or a Lightbulb I also want to have the Light Tree that shows craft status as a output . SO are there more then 8 lights ? Single bit per light . Dead easy to parse .. Lets say you have light on your dash for SAS and RCS . you can have the Mod pack pipe the status as a 1 /0 to your Micon and it can light up LEDs ect BULB = 1010000 or if we need 16 then have it as LED1 LED2 and have 2 words . Peter

OK! so I added more buttons We are up to V 1.5 I flew a few to see how it reacts . Its Very easy to use at this point .

Il make a post on the parallax forum ...... I want to say I have seen a gimbal object on there site... OK I got back from FRYS down the street ,. I am gonna add a few more buttons ! Lets do eng-stop and 3 if the view keys !

I would LOVE to help to the HW inter work for a HW box I have the time and the skill . . lacking funds ........ I am thinking of Bluetooth based as this way its isolated . And with that you have less of a risk of blowng up your computer . I want to use the spare 8 inch LCD ( NTSC as a gimbal!) ! with the onboard Vid out on the parallax propeller this is a snap. for a simple video out demo . The Prop also Runs C so its easy to compile for . I have the old files of my display some where . I just am a horrible desktop Sw geek . I am a EE by trade and I do power and RF and Optics as my work . SW gives me the chills . but a way to get a gimbal and power and RCS mono and main fuel would be sweet so would velocity and alt . Here is a shot of the old code I have on it Peter.

Aloha ! . I have been looking at how I can improve the feel of the game While suited up In my Old college project the ACES Heat suit. ((( more on it here http://www.kwwl.com/story/16507656/some-uni-students-find-new-ways-to-stay-warm#.Tw9bx6CY4kk.facebook )))) I figure if the helmet fits ,, Wear it! . I give you " the button" It is based on the guts from a Old USB Keyboard . Short some pads on the PCB you have a Key-press . I mean one could use a microcontroller but that is overkill when one can gut Keyboards and have the hardware all done. I may use a Micon a Prop chip from parallax If I want to one day add some things Like a real translation and direction sticks . The red one is the END key that is my staging key and the toggle switch is + and - for the throttle . I test flew it on a orbital flight yesterday and its slick . This is version 1.0 so Ill have a few mods to add to the case today like the cam Int Ext and orbit .....and a RCS toggle . All of this is gonna go in my Mini Sim .. Peter .. ( Mods I did not know if this was ok here or in the add on section as its not a ( mod pack)