This is a first person demonstration of my DIY simulated home cockpit built on a budget: https://SimPit.dev

It's design is based on a VF-1 Valkyrie cockpit of the Macross franchise - or Robotech as it is known in some parts of the world (but we don't talk about this here).

It is mainly used to play Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, X4: Foundations and plenty of other Space Pew Pew.

Features:

• DIY button box with LCD ("MFD") display
• DIY status indicators using a Neopixel
• DIY headtracker with Opentrack[1]
• Lots of plumbing with Node-RED
• Arduino Mega with a custom Rust daemon for driving the joystick and LEDs
• A custom “App” written in React to drive the MFD …and a Linux PC to power all the crazy 🤪

[1] Not active in this video because the motion sickness is bad enough already

Oh and ignore the Primary Flight Display. This version of my app has currently a bug where it's stuck when it should not display at all. It should only display near a planetary.

Music "Running and Burning (Single)" by "Desert Eagles" is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International License

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