Soo, you ended up on my page and that either means you just clicked on some random link saw that page and don’t have the slightest idea what this website is about. Then GREAT! you ended up on one of these niche sites on the web which cover some kind of exotic hobby – this being flight simulation! Or maybe you wanted to end up here, then let me welcome you!<\/p>\n\n\n
Or, you actually wanted to end up here and know exactly, what this website is about. Then “hey” fellow flight simmer and\/or home cockpit builder!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this website I will share my experiences (and failures) with building my own B737-800 home cockpit. I already started that project a while ago and used OpenCockpit<\/a> parts to build the system. Initially I bought OC’s cards, plugged them in, wrote a couple a SIOC scripts and it worked! After a while I bought the Cards as kits, soldered them myself and saved quite a bit of money in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem I always had was that I wanted to switch my X-Plane installation to Linux. Until know I was always running X-Plane under Windows 10. What prevented me from switching to Linux was the fact that OpenCockpits SIOC software is not running under Linux, which is kind of a downer. Then I discovered SimVim<\/a>, an Arduino based home cockpit solution, which is also compatible with Linux. So I decided to switch. The only problem is that besides buying an Arduino Mega and uploading the software via the plugin interface, there are (at least to my knowledge) no PCBs \/ Kits \/ finished cards are available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But still, it works under Linux! So I’ll just do everything from scratch myself. The only problem: I’m not really deep into ICs, electronics and so on. Yes, learned how to solder and yes I start to understand Datasheets of components, but I’m definitely not a pro at all. I have a background in IT though and hopefully that helps me a bit. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, since I’m kind of a new in this field, I want to document my experiences and solutions and share them with anyone interested in this field. I hope you’ll enjoy my blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Soo, you ended up on my page and that either means you just clicked on some random link saw that page and don’t have the slightest idea what this website is about. Then GREAT! you ended up on one of these niche sites on the web which cover some kind of exotic hobby – this … Continue reading “About me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phils-linux.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}