Make a Flight Sim Radio! | C172 #48

[@josephprieto7415]

Just built it about a week ago. It isn’t as complicated as I thought it was. Thank you! Can’t wait for a new video!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Let's goo! I'm so glad you found it easy! I'm busy with school so haven't been able to make videos lately but hopefully will get back on th video train eventually!

[@paulcarpenterfilmandmedia]

Well done, Trevor - smart and entertaining as always. You've inspired me to add a radio to my three-mile to-do list.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you Paul! Have fun making your radio!! :)) I'm curious to see how you do yours!

[@renanmonteiroft]

Thanks!

[@CaptainBobSim]

You bet! Thank you for supporting this project!

[@Anstellar]

Haven’t watched since July 2022, good to see your videos again

[@deltatango5765]

Very nice! Everything you did here was literally my job for 20 years, and I loved it. Engineers would design a prototype and give me the schematics, and sometimes mechanical drawings. I would procure the parts needed and figure out how to build it. Your build looks very professional. I look forward to all your vids.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Very cool! Sounds like a dream job! Thanks for your kind words Delta Tango!

[@colorscream]

yes, a new captain bob video

[@CaptainBobSim]

🥳 Always a fun day to release a project!

[@BennyB2k4]

Just finished a build of this, thanks for the content! Only difference is that I used an Arduino Nano, which has just enough pins to fit. Most of the mobiflight config carries over the same, there are just a few things that need to shuffle around eg A6/D20 and A7/D21 aren't GPIO pins so didn't work with the encoder

[@CaptainBobSim]

That's a great idea! I'm glad it worked out!!

[@edgarescobar111]

Excelente... estaba esperando este video hace mucho tiempo. Gracias por compartir sus conocimientos. Saludos desde Colombia.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Gracias Edgar!

[@simflightpro]

Great video! Was hoping to bump in at the Expo. Maybe next time. Cheers!

[@CaptainBobSim]

If you join the discord (in description) and DM me we should totally meet up at the next one!

[@TheScientificDuo]

Well done!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed it!

[@bernard2735]

Wow - your projects are awesome.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you so much Bernard!

[@rodriayala6815]

Siga adelante, hace usted muy buenos trabajos. Saludos desde Bolivia.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Gracias!

[@olivZeGeek]

Great job ! Amazing !!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you Olivienico!

[@FZenil]

Hi Captain, I'm in the process of building a G1000, and I need to know what rotary encoders with buttons are available, I need this to move communications, navigation and heading, but I'm trying to buy on Aliex, but there are many models. Do you know if I can find them on Ebay or Amz USA? Or what rotary encoder do you recommend? Greetings.

[@shadetreehomesim]

Another awesome video…

[@CaptainBobSim]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!

[@Jackson-ln3xs]

Yeah I agree 🤬🤬🤬

[@carlosmorales-ik3gm]

Great.

[@louniriad8873]

Hello and nice work. What type of wire are you using to connect the components to the arduino. Are they simple dupont wires ?

[@CaptainBobSim]

Either dupont wire or soldering to hook up wire. I prefer soldering (or crimping) to hook up wire.

[@keithryant5779]

What shade of tint did you use for the 7 segment displays. I'm gonna need some for mine as well, but I'm unsure where to start for the tint shading.

[@CaptainBobSim]

If I remember correctly I got 70% black window tint

[@keithryant5779]

​@@CaptainBobSim ok, so pretty dark stuff. Thanks.

[@Malińskifpv]

I have a question is possible to make a MFD buttons for F 18 using Mobi Flight ?

[@CaptainBobSim]

It should work in FS2020 F-18! Unfortunatly as of wrighting MobiFlight isn't comaptible with DCS.

[@geraldmcflight2556]

Encore de l excellent travail 🤩 merci Trevor, y aura t il une version transpondeur ?

[@CaptainBobSim]

Pas encore!

[@danielpanek413]

Amazing! but the frequincy is jumping in 25 each time, can i make it to be like the real thing and jump 5 each time?

[@wagner37065]

qual o tamanho de cada display de 7 segmentos em polegadas? I'm from Brazil.

[@SteveC1952]

Nice to see you still working on the 172 panel projects, Trevor. Using the 7-segment displays makes for a perfect replica of the old BK radios in the steam gauge panels of that time. Excellent work!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Thank you Steve! It's really fun to look at it when it's lit up :)

[@polar_baer]

I sadly know next to nothing about Arduinos or soldering or electronics in this sense... Will you sell these on the CaptainBob site? And if so, will the module be plug-and-play when it arrives? (Very new to this, sorry if that was a silly question!

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hello! I've decided not to sell this on the website just yet but I could make a "one off" for you. Email [e-mail] if interested. It wouldn't be plug and play but setup would be easy (and I can help you with it).

[@josephprieto7415]

Hi, So I am definetly going to make one but where do I find the wiring for the motherboard? Thanks!

[@CaptainBobSim]

The wires themselves are "dupont connectors" also hook up wire and dupont crimps.

[@josephprieto7415]

@@CaptainBobSimok thanks so much!

[@renanmonteiroft]

Awesome video man, using your channel as a bible for my home sim setup

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hello! I'm glad you could find it helpful! I did something very similar to this with my LCD generic radio: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXrHqJinhb1ol8U&pp=ygUVbGNkIHJhZGlvIGNhcHRhaW4gYm9i You can write the variable to switch between 0 & 1 on press then apply a precondition to a set of rough knob rows and fine knob rows. Make a new input row, set it to write @ (the button position), read it in output then make the percondition based on the output tab (if this makes sense).

[@renanmonteiroft]

@@CaptainBobSim You're a legend man, thanks so much! Will put that to work today :D

[@CaptainBobSim]

@@renanmonteiroft Absolutely! Let me know if you need any help!

[@renanmonteiroft]

It worked perfectly, thank you so much :)@@CaptainBobSim

[@RichGreatsuccess]

where to buy the PCB board Bob?

[@danytovar5715]

Thanks for your excellent tutorials. Do you know if ARDUINO ONE has any problem with the Max7219 7-segment display. I have configured it and it only works for a few seconds, but then it no longer shows the numbers on the display.

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hello! If the lights are still on on the arduino and mobiflight reflects the numbers you want I would reach out to PropWashSim to see if it is a faulty display or not.

[@danytovar5715]

Hello CaptainbobSim, thank you very much for responding quickly. Apparently the problem was caused by the ARDUINO UNO, I replaced it with an ARDUINO MEGA and I had no more problems. I have seen several of your videos, great contribution to the community, you are the best@@CaptainBobSim

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hooray!@@danytovar5715

[@janmenzinga]

Hi Trevor, we chatted earlier, how are you doing? How did you get the letters printed out nice? I tried another type of faceplate, drew it myself but the letters were very badly printed. Maybe it's the font (what font did you use?). I'm trying out a piece of your faceplate, still 9 minutes for the print to be ready. Hope to hear from you. Keep up the good work! Update: The piece I printed from your faceplate is not as clear as it should be. Struggling with the letters.... can anyone tell me how to setup my printer to make a nice print? I think the solutions is in the fine adjustment, but what exactly?

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hello Jan! I did these on my Ender 3S1 with mostly stock settings. These are done in Arial Bold, you'll want to make sure your text is big enough to show on your slicer. Which printer and slicer are you using?

[@lucio-sd5sq]

Dear Captain Bob I builded the hardware of your radio. The problem I have is when I started to develop the software I discovered that your instruction are on an old version of Moby flight Mega. The one I have is 2.5.1 and is completely different from yours. Now I do not know how to procede. Can you help me ? Thanks Lucio

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hello! I've sent you an email

[@Jackson-ln3xs]

Can you show us how to build something actually usefull such as a pizza of sorts?

[@CaptainBobSim]

Unfortunately pizza is outside of the scope of this channel. As a busy college student I only have so much time to make videos and cannot comprehensively make videos for every useful topic. For example, right now I'm focusing on my Cessna 172 Analog variant. I haven't had time to revamp the instruments with advanced zeroing and such. I would consider making for example a pizza simulator in the future, but still pizza the food is outside of the scope of this channel. Good day sir.

[@danytovar5715]

Hello, thank you for the video, how can I make it possible that when the radio turns off, the 7 segment displays also turn off?

[@CaptainBobSim]

Add a config row that reads the radio status as a button press then connect a precondition to the display rows that only activates if the row reads 1.

[@swiss275]

Decided to build my own radio. Followed every step. Now I got this issue where the left side, the active side is showing value and the right side, standby nothing. During testing only the left side responds. Any help would be appreciated.

[@CaptainBobSim]

That's awesome you're building your own! if you try to put standby on the right side does anything show? What shows in the output value?

[@swiss275]

@@CaptainBobSimo the MobiFlight software, everything is fine. It shows the output. Except for the lcd. It shows the output on active but on standby it’s all 8s. Doesn’t change. When testing only the left side shows. Going crazy over here. Lol

[@CaptainBobSim]

@@swiss275 Maybe try wiring them separately instead of daisy chaining? It could be a connection issue also try setting values to 12345678 instead of 8888888 to see if the module is actually working properly

[@swiss275]

@@CaptainBobSimtried that. No luck. Does the second module requires special wiring?or is it connected together internally?

[@CaptainBobSim]

You can daisy chain them or wire it identically to the first one: www.737diysim.com/copy-of-wiring-led-s-to-arduino-1

[@jamiecee20]

Does it work with the fenix a320 in fs2020?

[@ooblik]

Did you notice you have NAV labeled as COMM in your designs?

[@CaptainBobSim]

I did not! I may have fixed it in an update, but if I didn't I'll update that!

[@hxl6162]

Will you sell this one at your site?

[@CaptainBobSim]

This one isn't on the site, but if you want one you can email [e-mail]

[@normwright4894]

where do i get the 3D printed parts

[@CaptainBobSim]

Hi Norm! If you'd like to purchase them you can contact [e-mail] If you want to print them yourself they are listed in the video description Happy Landings!

[@pipe608]

what are the measures of the led segments?

[@CaptainBobSim]

Here are the CAD models I made. Forgot the dimesnions but same as your standard MAX 7 segment display digit (green/blue pcb) github.com/CaptainBobSim/PropWashSim-Components so it's

[@Jackson-ln3xs]

Probably 5

[@miketango507]

can I use 7seg display? (max7219)

[@CaptainBobSim]

You can use it with Mobi but not the 8 digit modules with my design (You'll have to adapt it)

[@miketango507]

@@CaptainBobSim Thanks Trevor..

[@Jackson-ln3xs]

Yeah thanks…. Trevor.