Hardware cockpit instruments with round displays.

Patrick Callahan <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:37:18 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.games.flightgear.devel
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Has anyone done any cockpit instruments using Flightgear source materials
driving  2.8" round TFT displays from raspberry pi zeros?  I'm thinking in
terms of a FGFS instance with no scenery, no airport, just a single
instrument, driven not from the FDM, but from input fed from the main FGFS
instance over USB or UDP, perhaps running independently on a Raspberry Pi
Zero.  Outputs for adjusting knobs back to the main fgfs via the same
channel.

-Pat

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Heading Instrument example
1 raspberry pi zero
1 2.8" display with hdmi board
2 magnetic rotary encoders for Heading Bug and Card Adjust

Is there a simpler way to drive the display than to have a full instance of
flightgear running on the Pi?

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ear source materials driving=C2=A0 2.8&quot; round TFT displays from raspbe=
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k to the main fgfs via the same channel.</div><div><br></div><div>-Pat</div=
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wayAdapt=3Dglo2usa">https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805001903002.html?sp=
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USD+31.27%21USD+31.27%21%21USD+31.27%21%21%21%402103138417850754067242788e0=
eb6%2112000032031307056%21ct%21US%21798636471%21%211%210%21&amp;gatewayAdap=
t=3Dglo2usa</a><div><br></div><div>Heading Instrument example=C2=A0</div><d=
iv>1 raspberry pi zero</div><div>1 2.8&quot; display with hdmi board</div><=
div>2 magnetic rotary encoders for Heading Bug and Card Adjust</div><div><b=
r></div><div>Is there a simpler way to drive the display than to have a ful=
l instance of flightgear running on the Pi?</div></div>

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