@alikkhussainbekov8283 Hello, for the Zibo, you DO NOT need to convert anything. Everything should work just by assigning it from the aircraft maps. Wait, there's a Boeing 737 MAX by Zibo?

Hello, thanks for your comment. I have not seen the 3D printed buttons you are referring to but I will look them up. Since I do not have a 3D printer, all of the videos are about using readily available off the shelf components. So my videos are not really about making a realistic cockpit, but rather teaching how to connect them to the Arduino and configure their functions with SimVimX. The few 3D printed parts that I have looked for always seem to be ridiculously expensive though. I'm sure some day I will get a 3D printer and try to make my own, but for now I'm just teaching the basics of using SimVimX. I have looked into MobiFlight but it just seems to much more complicated to configure assignments.

@bobbykelly7924 Anywhere you can buy old items like Ebay. That's where I bought both of mine. Actually I'm thinking I'm going to sell at least one of mine but I will prefer to sell it in person if possible to avoid paying the huge Ebay fees.

Thank you

@DaveWrightKB9MNM Oh good Dave, I mentioned that a little bit in my first videos on the tutorials Playlist. I'm actually going to do that video next but I've been working out of town alot so haven't got to it.

@@Qosmokid ok, will be interesting to see how to do it.

@DaveWrightKB9MNM oh that's good Dave, can't wait to see how they turn out. I've used all three browsers and never had a problem. If you get that security warning/block. All you have to do is click on download anyway or something like that.

Thank you Carlos, this one actually came out pretty good. Although I could've been a little more careful when cutting the holes so the wood would not split. I should've also taken a little more time on the painting. I do plan to make videos on using servos and maybe even stepper motors to make gauges. I'm not sure If I'll actually make a pressurization panel though. I normally try to show the basics needed so everyone can then build their setups. One of the things that I haven't figured out how to make is gauges that have multiple needles in the gauge. I know it requires gears and concentric shafts so that's a little complicated. There are a lot of people who have sent me pictures of their home cockpits and all of them are very realistic compared to what I build 😂

It was really cool! My home cockpit is simple, 99 cm wide. Before, Virtual Avionics EFIS and MCPM worked, but now they don't. MIP works with SIOC input and output languages ​​and servo motor for flaps. I tried to create a pressurization panel that would show the cruise and landing altitude on the display, but I couldn't. It seems to be a simulator disease. kkk!

SI a una se lo quite, y a otra le puse uno nuevo. pero la que demostre en este video no lo tiene. Parece ser un problema muy comun.

@PilotDaveAviation Hey Dave, thanks. You heard your shout-out?

@@Qosmokid yes sir still watching the video

@PilotDaveAviation Hey Dave, thank you. LOL, it wouldn't even be worth it to take orders because I would make less than $7 an hour. The parts are cheap, but the time put into it is a lot 🤣 Besides this is for X-Plane only. I imagine the wiring for MobiFlight is completely different and the "programming" is many times more complicated. BTW I gave you a shout out at the beginning of Part 3 getting posted in a few days.

@Qosmokid so awesome, I figured it would be a lot of work my friend. We have to get together and see the mcp work on xplane, I love it. Can't wait to see the video

Awesome, I sure hope it helps. Thank you

Gracias, pues si logre quebrar la madera un poco por no tener paciencia cuando estaba cortando los abujeros. No se si el foam espumoso que dices es ese que tiene como carton en los dos lados y en medio tiene foam. Yo tengo de ese pero no me llamo la atencion tratar de acerlo con eso.

@DaveWrightKB9MNM Thanks Dave. Yes, hopefully you do. At least a little bit at a time.

@philnelson2364 Not on the computers I use with SimVimX. Both still on Windows 10 & X-Plane 11. I do have X-Plane 12 but I don't really use it.

@@philnelson2364 Ah ok that makes sense, so that's why they al show 8s when you start up the sim? I wonder why that doesn't happen to the TM1637s. Those never have any of the issues I've noticed on MAX7219s

@@Qosmokid The 7219 are special cases. I believe all the dots also turn. I wrote a program to test 7219s, 1637s and the multiplexers. The 7219 do things differently. I would have to look at the block diagram again to remember it.

@@neotins39 You're very welcome.

Muchas gracias por tu comentario. Me alegra que te entretengas construir los paneles solo por el reto. A mi tambien me encanta tratr de hacer algo que antes yo veia como muy dificil y lograrlo. Me sorprende que a tanta gente se les haga tan dificil usar multiplexers. Ojala que los videos que he hecho acerca de eso ayuden. Me parece que ya casi completas un cockpit entero , yo tambien tengo deseos de hacer el overhead del B737. Acabo de finalmente contruir un MCP Y ya casi tengo dos videos listos acerca de eso. A mi tambien me gustaria comprar una CNC pero aqui donde vivo esta muy chico el lugar y ya no tengo espacio para nada 🤣 Oye acerca de MobiFlight, si tengo razon que SimVimX esta mucho mas facil cuando se trata de asignar las funciones? Yo solo he tratado un poco pero se me hace mucho mas complicado programar cosas en ese programa. Pero tiene la ventaja que ese funciona con MSFS pero como yo no lo uso por eso no me interesa tanto.

@@Qosmokid Simvin es lo mas facil, no te tienes que preocupar de offsets, ni modificadores, ni transformaciones, lo unico que me "asusta" es que es por WEB, deberia Simvin hacerlo con un programa como mobiflight, mobiflight es mas complicado en ciertas cosas si usas el PMDG te vale la misma configuracion para FSX,Prepar o MSF2020, ya que usan las mismas offsets. Tambien dispongo de una pequeña habitacion para mis cosas "mi cueva" Mi proximo paso es por una CNC y a hacer paneles con luz, quien sabe si hasta venderlos (soñar es gratis), por cierto termine una FMC completa retroiluminada, para PMDG y lo hice con un solo arduino mega y 2 MUX y una pantalla de 5" y lo mismo para el x-plane, es facilisimo asignar commands. si me das tu correo te mando fotos de lo que he logrado y en gran parte gracias a ti y al traductor de youtube, salvo los pocos videos en español que has hecho saludos

@philnelson2364 Good point, I've never read that anywhere except when jump starting vehicles What I should do is disconnect the Mega's USB cable until I finish connecting everything but I always forget 🙄

@@Qosmokid Same thing with vehicles and, I always forget to remove power to the mega before turning off the power supply. The 7 segments go crazy. Same thing when I forget to turn on the power supply before powering up the mega then, for a few seconds, wonder why the 7 segments look dim and display garbage. I might create a power board to turn on power supply before the mega and reverse when powering down. One switch for both supplies.

This almost reminds me of my Commodore 64 days when you had to turn on the computer and 1541 floppy disk drive in a certain order or risk damaging the drive.

@@DaveWrightKB9MNM The panel that I briefly showed on this video?

@@Qosmokid yep, the back of it? Or is that one you already have?

@DaveWrightKB9MNM No it's one I just built. I finished it already and I have two videos on the whole build already done. But I'm going to post those after I finish the ones on 7 Segment displays. Send me an email and I'll send you some pictures.

​@@zikangzhong7045 I did show the power layout. You might need to watch the video again. Watch starting at 11:48

I think I responded to this on another video. But my guess is that you have some of the S0-S3 address line wires crossed.

Not that I'm aware of, at least not with SimVimX. Maybe if using the with some Arduino sketch or library

@larryspotts3266 Hmm actually the diagram does show LED 0, LED 7 on the left and LED 8, LED15 on the right, but you are right there is no explanation or correlation between actual IC pin numbers and LED positions. I Think I tried to explain that on the video. Glad you figured it out though. Hopefully this will help others, thanks for the comment.

Thank you Phil

Thank you 😄

@Patra4321 Hello, I am actually going to do a video on gauges with Servos and then maybe also with stepper motors. The only problem is right now it's planned after a few more videos. I'll try my best to hurry up and do that one in the next week or so. But honestly right now I was thinking it was going to be in about 3 weeks.

Do you remember how you calibrated them the first time? It should still be the same way. Also, are yours with servos or stepper motors?

@@Qosmokid hi they are servos they were last calibrated a year ago but for the life of me I can't get the gauges to tie up with the zibo gauges or even close any help would be appreciated looking forward to your video

@yuvarajcena26 I'm not an electronics guy, I only make videos about SimVimX. 🙂

@@yuvarajcena26 I'm working on it 🤣

Obrigado, espero que os vídeos ajudem você

@ignacioherrero9374 Hello Ignacio, well that can very easily be done using SimVimX. That's the plugin all my other videos are about. Of course, you do need an Arduino Mega to connect the encoder to. If you want to look into it, I recommend you watch some of my videos on SimVimX. kzbin.info/aero/PL_39nliBxZCWlrPDCW440ShaqurNe1c_g&si=BTkhlFtqREe1Th_l

@@Qosmokid thx dude, yes of course I know I must to use Simvimx and arduino Mega. I have one with the latest firmware ready to go... But I dont know the dataref valid to be used in combinación whith the saitek multipanel one... Whitout conflicts. Since you changed to Simvimx config tool seams to be more complicated than older Simvim app. Thx for your Quick response mate!!!

The question is if I select Hdg and set the value. Then I select Course if I set the value... Booth values are conected to the same encoder... Then this will be an inconsitence isnt?? Some idea to store diferent origin values whitout interferences???

Im not sure if your system its able to include some kind of memory register where store in real time each value till the next modification. And the game can show in the display when we select the Hdg, course, etc... Thx, Ignacio

Some kind of external eprom to store there the temporal data.... During the flight course.

Hello Phil, wow all this time we've been in contact and I never knew you were an engineer. Thank you for the nice comments. As far as my cockpit, I really haven't done much with it in the last few years. Pretty much what I showed in my "Evolution of my home cockpit" video is what I have now. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXeYq32Ld9KJja8si=SY3Eww2tOE7PQa_W&t=656 I have been thinking of starting an overhead panel and/or stating to use SimVim Panels but I just wish I had more space to build.

@@Qosmokid Well, building your own simvim panels takes time but if you use a dremel tool and other tools, you can make your own panels. This way, you can make them the size you want to fit. The comm panels you have are rather large and if you saw my latest video, you'd notice how it all fits together (of course, I use 3D printing - Cutting out panels takes time and I don't have the patience.) I was thinking of getting a CNC machine (about 200 to 300 dollars now) to cut out my own panels which would look better than the ones I printed and are more precise than 3D prints (you don't know how many tries I went through to adjust the various cutouts for each panel.) Also, although Vlad doesn't recommend anything but direct soldering, the best solution I found are the JST connectors that you find in various devices. You can disconnect and reconnect them many times without failure. I bought bags of 100 of different pins (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 pins types both female and male) for about $5.00 per bag of 100. The male pins are directly soldered to the pc board and the females use connectors that you can either crimp with the right tool or, as someone on youtube said - solder the wire directly to the connectors. As for space for the sim, I have the same problem. I live in an appartment built in 1947 for the returning soldiers from WW2 so the appartments are small. I could take over my wife's work room but then, there would be hell to pay. As for designing boards for various parts like 7 seg displays, switches etc, I already did this for encoders, small push buttons with LED displays and even a board for a dual-axis stepper motor (which I might use to design an working altimeter some day) I enjoy designing pc boards and 3D printed parts so if anyone has a need for something, let me know. As far as taking time off, I did take a year off in order to figure a few things out so it's a normal thing. Currently, I am thinking of getting a curved 42" screen for my main display so that the side windows (screens) are closer to it than they are now. When I get my taxes back next year. The other thing I need to do is build the cockpit itself instead of using an old TV stand but, building takes time and I don't have the patience. Maybe one day before I pass on into the great beyond although at 70 years old, I have less time than I did 20 years ago. I wish I had all this technology then.

@@philnelson2364 Wow a lot of nice ideas here. I still have the PCBs you sent me a while ago but I haven't made use of the JST connectors. Now that I'm working on the 7-segment display videos I got inspired to do a more realistic MCP panel than what I currently have. I actually got sidetracked by that so I need to complete the videos on the TM1637 & MAX7219. You'll see my mediocre cutting skills when I post the video on my MCP panel. I had no idea CNC machines were down to a couple of hundred dollars. Last time I checked (many many years ago) I could've sworn they were in the thousands of dollars. Maybe I should look into getting one myself. I've also been looking at a 3D printer too but I probably won't buy either one of those until I live somewhere else :(

@tzampini Hey, thank you. Yup, you got the name right 😁. I haven't found one either, so most likely they don't exist or else Google would find it. I'm experimenting with a new way of soldering some boards and molex headers. So far I like it.

@@Qosmokid I design my own pc boards and have created a "Main Board" which has the arduino mega, the 4067 multiplexer for the displays along with connectors and the dm13a socket, resistors and power connector to plug in a 5v power supply to power up all the LEDs, LCDs and displays. I am using it for my cessna c172 sim (which I use to stay up to date for when I can't fly for real.) I have the gerber files needed if you want to send it to a fabrication company like the one I use in Hong Kong which charges about $5.00 for 5 boards. If anyone wants to have a board for a DM13A specifically, let me know and I'll design one and create the gerber files (this is what they need to build a pc board.) If anyone else needs a board for some chip or other item, let me know.

@mbunds Hello, the two guys who create the software know everything. A lot of us flight simmers are just beginners tinkering with this. At least for me, what I show in these videos is very specific to how it works with the SimVimX plugin.

@@Qosmokid Still, I learned a lot from your production, including the realization that I received a lot of help from the flight sim people for some of my hobby electronics having nothing to do with flight sim. People in the flight sim groups are seriously brilliant, but they don't seem to know it. I am currently re-inventing the wheel designing/building some "universal flight sim instruments"; re-inventing because the flight sim groups have been at this for a very long time and have already "been there, done that" with every "new idea" I have come up with, and I won't live long enough to catch up with them, but I am having lots of fun!

@@SamwiAms hey there, sure I can do that. I usually use TeamViewer to remote into computers. Send me an email so we can arrange it. Qosmokid at g mail

@@Qosmokid I sent you an email

@@SamwiAms I see you got it in the other message

@joseclaudiodomingos4856 I think you need to watch my video on multiplexers to better understand the data and address bus. But I explained it on this video, the D line is pin 28 on the Arduino and the LCD control pin is whichever pin you choose to assign an LCD display to. It is a lot of wires so you might need to go over it again 😁

@@Qosmokid Ok, I was in doubt because in the video you put a comment indicating ports 20 and 21 and then use pin 28, it was confusing for me.

@@ferrer9609 Hello, you cannot use an output MUX by itself to light up LEDs. You need to also use an LED Driver like my favorite the DM13A. I have a video on using those and you can connect the DM13A to an output MUX pin. It gets a little more complicated with those buttons that have LEDs in them so I do plan to make a separate video on them.

Here's my old video on using DM13A's. I will eventually update it so I can show how it's done in the new configurator. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZS0imdvdq2Gjdksi=cx1oEMnNlbrn45hI