I'm about to buy several Crystalfontz displays
I'm building an airplane's flightdeck panel to make my Microsoft's Flight Simulator experience even more realistic. The goal is to have lots of buttons and handles and avoid the use of keyboard and mouse while flying the sim.
I want to add some LCD Displays in order to show some information like comm and nav radio frequencies, Transponder settings, Autopilot's settings, etc.
I will use Peter Downson's FSUIPC.dll to obtain that information from Flight Simulator. My idea is to run an interfase software made in VisualBasic, sending the data I want to LCDs, reading it with FSUIPC SDK.
I haven't decided which LCD displays I will use, it's all up to the easiest method to have at least 3 LCDs attached to the same computer at the same time. If the prototype works fine, I'll build at least 5 more panels.
My questions are:
How can I communicate with the LCD displays using Visual Basic as development platform? Do you recommend me to use another programming language?
Is there a way to connect a HD44780 controlled display to a USB port (perhaps a USB to parallel cable adapter)?
If I get a 633 display, is there a way to make my software interact with the display's buttons?
Regards,
Jorge Martinez
I'm building an airplane's flightdeck panel to make my Microsoft's Flight Simulator experience even more realistic. The goal is to have lots of buttons and handles and avoid the use of keyboard and mouse while flying the sim.
I want to add some LCD Displays in order to show some information like comm and nav radio frequencies, Transponder settings, Autopilot's settings, etc.
I will use Peter Downson's FSUIPC.dll to obtain that information from Flight Simulator. My idea is to run an interfase software made in VisualBasic, sending the data I want to LCDs, reading it with FSUIPC SDK.
I haven't decided which LCD displays I will use, it's all up to the easiest method to have at least 3 LCDs attached to the same computer at the same time. If the prototype works fine, I'll build at least 5 more panels.
My questions are:
How can I communicate with the LCD displays using Visual Basic as development platform? Do you recommend me to use another programming language?
Is there a way to connect a HD44780 controlled display to a USB port (perhaps a USB to parallel cable adapter)?
If I get a 633 display, is there a way to make my software interact with the display's buttons?
Regards,
Jorge Martinez
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