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1. phugoid · 1789567102 · focus · HN ↗

   This really made my day! I was a flight simulator engineer for 20 years and it brings back fond memories of a project I worked on.

   Simulating the passenger cabin is important for crew evacuation trainers. Those are large, lifelike fuselage sections that you put on a hydraulic motion platform and run flight/crash/evac training scenarios.

   To get a realistic out-the-window view, the trainers I worked on had a PC monitor behind each window opening. We used FlightGear in a master-slave setup: the master node simulates physics and feeds accelerations to the hydraulic platform, and the slave nodes generate out-the-window visuals for each window.

   1. RobRivera · 1789569899 · focus · HN ↗

      [Desire to know more intensifies]

      So if I wanted to create something that could reliably jostle and move in response to a master physics node, like a racetrack simulator, cabin simulator etc. What kind of distributed controller scheme we looking at? Master node with strong compute, hydraulics with microcontrollers type set up?

      1. DANmode · 1789602431 · focus · HN ↗

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         Not to keep you from making a DIY version, but

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