Simviation Forum - Tiny LCDs on Ebay

Feb 5^th, 2005 at 1:50am

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48609&item=5748138879&rd=...

I dont know what I would do with them, but Im sure some of you sim builders could use them for something. maybe make a virtual reality system with 2 of them? that would be cool.

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Reply #1 - Feb 5^th, 2005 at 8:10pm

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Good Find there Tacitblue. Thanks for posting it.

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Reply #2 - Feb 8^th, 2005 at 8:05pm

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Hey, I just had a thought. What if you took one of these, stripped it down, and put it in a slide projector? would it project a quality image? I imagine it would take some major cooling.

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Reply #3 - Feb 9^th, 2005 at 5:19am

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Tacitblue,

For an initial idea that is brilliant. There may be issues that prevent the thing from actually working.... but it is a good starting point. There is a major article noted elsewhere in this forum on converting an lcd screen to a projection monitor using and overhead projector that overall costs less than $300. Maybe this is another way to do that.

One drawback to those units is that they are NTSC inputs...... TV.... not SVGA or XVGA. So the resolution issue mifght be big.

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Reply #4 - Feb 9^th, 2005 at 1:56pm

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Oh yeah, forgot about them having TV inputs.

Ive seen plans for the overhead projector thing, I would like to try it, but I cant bring myself to pay $150 for a monitor that Im just going to take apart.

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Reply #5 - Feb 14^th, 2005 at 7:45am

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couldnt you use these mini tv screens for things like your TCAS screen or simmilar things.

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Reply #6 - Feb 14^th, 2005 at 6:07pm

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Craig,

Yup.... that is exactly the idea for using them.

Remember here that most simpit gauges are actually stand alone programs running on a different PC than the one that is running the main simulator program.

You CAN use a program called WideView (along with FSUIPC and WideFS) to slave multiple PCs together each running a copy of the fs200x. Then you can create a custom panel view for the sim on one of the machines. Take that custom panel and display it on a small led display monitor like those mentioned above......... and you have a "standard" in-sim fs200X gauge seeming to be running all by itself on a monitor.

This approach would work great to simulate the Garmin GPS units. After you get the led display working.... you make a surrouinding housing to fit it that looks like the real thing with the buttons interfaced to the slaved PC via something like a Hagstrom card... and you have what amounts to a functional Garmin GPS on your panel.

If you look at the image to the left on my signature.... you can see the PFD behind the yoke in my simpit. That is a stand alone program (from FreeFD) running on another PC with the monitor "hidden" behind a fake main panel facing. (Similar in basic concept.)

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Reply #7 - Feb 14^th, 2005 at 6:14pm

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I was considering making a GPS module, but I was afraid that the resolution wouldnt be good enough. Besides, Im not building a simpit yet.

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Reply #8 - Feb 14^th, 2005 at 6:23pm

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Tacitblue,

When you start on the GPS unit....... you'd officially be starting on a simpit Wink

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I'm not sure on the resolution of the "TV" type either.

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Reply #9 - Feb 14^th, 2005 at 8:56pm

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Actually, then I guess I already have. Remember my keyboard question not to long ago? I found great info on simpits.org, followed their directions, and now I have a panel/box with several aircraft-looking buttons and switches.
I do want to go the whole 9 yards some day, but for now I live in a small 1 bedroom apartment, so I am limited as to what I can build in there.

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