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Since the above piece of hardware is very likely NOT in my future, I've been thinking about whether I could home-build a sim cockpit. I'd seen a series of magazine articles many years ago about somebody who duplicated a Cessna dashboard for his computer, but since then, the tech has changed. And changed. And changed.



This is a doctored cockpit layout diagram from the Stavatti Stalma, the under-perpetual-development fighter jet featured in my avatar. There are a dozen different configurations offered for this cockpit; this one is centered around off-the-shelf rather than custom or future hardware. (I got the .pdf brochure as a download a few years ago. It's no longer available but they have another for the Machete strike fighter project HERE.)

Anyway I'm using this material as a springboard for a technical brainstorm. For displays and instrument output I'm thinking cell phone video screens and laptop computer screens. I wonder if these could be had as separate components rather than having to buy consumer goods for the parts. I bet the video screens from cell phones are cheap enough now to make the overall dashboard an affordable possibility.

Of course, I'd still need the big screen someday. How big? I'm flexible.