Arduino and CentOS 6

Since my flight sim pc is a CentOS 6 desktop and I am attaching my Teensy handywork to this pc, I wanted to run the Arduino software on this pc (the Arduino software is a prerequisite to the Teensyduino software used for the Teensy boards). This proved to be a bit of a challenge, but I succeeded with the help of some information on the interwebs…

Project 1 update: Teensy board

Last week I came across info about the Teensy board. From the PJRC website:

The Teensy is a complete USB-based microcontroller development system, in a very small footprint, capable of implementing many types of projects. All programming is done via the USB port. No special programmer is needed, only

‘New’ CPU and SSD purchased

For my forward view desktop, I purchased a used Q6700 CPU to replace my Core 2 Duo CPU (E2180). This Quad Core processor is the fastest processor my MSI P6N Diamond mainboard will support. Since I want to purchase some OpenCockpits hardware, I won’t be investing too much in the desktop at this time.

NAV radio project update

Well, I have spent some time gathering all of the parts needed for the radio and have looked into a way to display the right numbers on the displays. I felt a bit victorious when I was fooling around with the PoKeys software and was able to display something with the LED matrix test.

Project 1: 737 NAV radio project

This week I decided to put the PoKeys56U card to good use. I want to build a NAV radio myself and have it communicate with X-Plane 9. I will split the project in 3 parts: