EN: After some while I finished my PCB board layout. And, here goes one of the main problems: the Airbus A320 MCDU has a total of 94 buttons, while the Raspberry Pi 3 has only 28 available ports.The solution for this? Make the MCDU keyboard in a matrix layout. For the down switches i choose […]
Homemade Airbus A320 MCDU – Day 2 – The Software
EN: Hello Again! In this section, I will talk about how I modified the Aerosoft Airbus A320 MCDU to fit it into my project. First things first, let yourself introduce to the Aerosoft Airbus X Connect. This guy is the responsible for being a interface between the simulator and the web browser (ok, maybe you […]
Homemade Airbus A320 MCDU – Day 1 – The Hardware
EN: Let’s start with the basics: the project hardware. As I mentioned before, the main idea here is to connect to the web server provided by Aerosoft Airbus. So, by the complexity of getting data and rendering it, I chose the Raspberry Pi Model B instead of the classical Arduino. Raspberry Pi is pure Linux, […]
Homemade Airbus A320 MCDU – Day 0 – An Idea
EN: Ok, if you are reading this, you know that the project is far ahead than this post. The idea of creating this blog happened after the “success” of my post on twitter. As I mentioned in the about section of the blog, I love aviation in general. This passion increased when I first met the […]
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