To start with, here's a list of tools we have used in our building:
- screwdrivers, all sorts
- pliers, all sorts
- Hot Air Gun, eg. for the yoke
- soldering iron
- several handsaws
- jigsaw
- metal saws
- angle grinder
- wood lathe that we borrowed from a friend
- home-built XYZ-Table (basically a very simple CNC, New: now with computer hookup). For pictures: see end of page.
- cable ties
- lots of wood, mostly 18mm particle board
- aluminum profiles (L-type, flat, tube, rectangular tube)
- plexiglass and something similar, called "Hobbyglass" (easier to work with that plexi, might be PVC)
- PVC water pipes (75mm) for the control columns
- M4, M6, M10, and M12 threaded rods for axes and push-rods
- ...
Software used for the cockpit and the website:
- Operating System: Linux + GNU GNU tools
- Distribution: Debian
- Windowing Systems: ion, FVWM
- Graphics: The GIMP, ImageMagick, dia, feh, pngcrush, qcad, sketch, xfig, tgif
- Fonteditor: pfaedit
- Texteditors: vim, mcedit, XEmacs
- Research Tools: Mozilla Firefox Browser, Acrobat Reader (for all those datasheets)
- Electronics: eagle, The GIMP, GNU ghostscript, xcircuit, pcb
- Web Authoring:
- old site: Website Meta Language (wml) + simple document format sdf + my own gallery generation script
- new site: my own perlscript + simple document format sdf + my own gallery generation script
- Data Transfer: sitecopy, wget
- Flight Simulation: FlightGear, Atlas, Open Glass Cockpit, X11GC and other custom software in development
- Photos: Philips PCVC680K Webcam, Stephens digital camera
- PIC Microcontroller: gpasm from gputils, picprog2.3d, PP06, broccoli18, PikDev homebuilt burner based on Trivial High Voltage Programmer
Available Galleries:
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