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Here are the componet parts of the Gauge body and Servo. The faces and needle are not the final product.
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I went to the local hobby
store and found clock hands. I cut the end off (see picture below) and used the cut off portion for the gauge needles.
I just drilled a small hole and painted it white. The needle cap was mad from doll eyes. They came in a package
of twenty or so. I removed the back of the eye and removed the little black plastic dot. I then painted it
on the inside. After it dried I attached the cap with a dab of hot glue.
The picture below is the finished
gauge and controller. I now need to make another 5 gauges. The controller is a PIC18F2455 (USB) chip. It
is programmed to have 6 servo outputs. I also added five more I/O lines in case I want to add something later.
This is my Throttle Quadrqnt. I cut the parts on my CNC router. I built my own USB controller with seven
analog inputs and eight switch inputs. I use Microchips 18F2455 chip. The program is written with PicBasic Pro.
All but one of the devices I use are USB.
I have finished the gauge cluster. You can see it on my home page.
Below is a picture of
the last finished project. It is a Garmin 530.
The program is from RealityXP. I hacked a PS1 screen. I am running the display from the composite video output from my video card. I made a USB interface for the switches and encoders. The
lower left of the device is a dual concentric encoder of my own design. The device is seen by windows as a game controller.
I am using FSUIPC to direct the swith presses to control the Garmin program.
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