As a rotor-head I often wonder how fighter pilots maintain their Situation Awareness: we can fly NOE, mask our presence by means of the terrain
Author: Karon
Software developer, flight sims addicted since forever. I opened flyandwire.com initially as a personal repository for my Arduino articles and firmware, later to share my passions to other fellow hardware & flight enthusiasts.
Arduino Control Box: a Step by Step Guide – Part 3 – Wiring Diagram I
4 Encoders, 25 buttons. What to do with them? Considering how popular the F/A-18 is, an option can be a sort of minimalistic version of
DCS-BIOS and Arduino TFT
I don’t use DCS-BIOS often. It somehow kills the idea of flexibility that the custom-built Control Boxes provide. Exceptions exist though, one is the TFT:
Arduino Control Box: a Step by Step Guide – Part 2 – Planning
I spend more time planning my box than drilling, soldering and coding the firmware. Planning is important for many reasons, such as: Feasibility: Arduino has

Arduino Control Box: a Step by Step Guide – Part 1
A few friends of mine asked me how to build something similar to my Control Boxes. Their problems is very simple: they have never done
Arduino box: F/A-18 UFC ¦ Ka-50 PRTz & PVI-800
I finished few minutes ago to code the firmware for my last Arduino control box. I have controlled the PRTz and the PVI-800 in the