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Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck

Posted by timothy on from the could've-used-flightgear dept.

ShadowsMV writes "Three technology students finishing up their degrees at the DuPage Campus of DeVry University spent a term designing and building one of the most nifty flight simulators yet. Named the Sim Icarus Flight Deck, it accurately recreates the primary flight accessory controls of the Boeing 777, and interfaces directly with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. They have tons of pictures and lists of everything you need! Previous flight decks featured on slashdot include An awesome homebuilt and wideview with 13 Monitors And 9 PCs."

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  1. I was Building a 757 and gave up lack of $. by BrianHursey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I reserched for a year I wanted to build one. I even got the software woking with 6 computers. But after the evaluation of the cost of building the quality sim that I wanted I concluded that it would coust me about 10-15 thosand dollers.

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  2. Manufacturing ? by cyberfunk2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm glad this got posted.. now hopefully some enterprising company will hire these guys. It looks like they did a real good job of something pretty hard, skunkworks style.

    If I was an employer I'd wanna have them working for me.

  3. 3D idea for this setup by boomgopher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know what would be cool is to:

    Rig up a dual projector setup in front of this sim
    Have the projected images overlap one another
    Place a polarizing filter over each projector
    Adjust each filter to be 90 degrees out of phase with the other

    Slap on some cheap 3D glasses, and tada, 3D flight simulator.

    (I think) Anyone know if this would this work? I've always wanted to try this.

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    1. Re:3D idea for this setup by Rolker · · Score: 3, Interesting

      This setup does work. We have such a system at work so we can show stereo stuff to a large audience with cheap polarized glasses. (Instead of more expensive LCD glasses).

      The trick is to have a videocard that supports clone mode stereo, such as a Quadro card, and software that supports stereo.