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Old 02-12-2020, 08:38 AM
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Vern - have you been writing patents lately?
Hah, it's just.... a means for displaying engine sensor information on a graphical display by using predefined scalable mathematical objects, each defined by colored bands, index pointers, and arranged in vertical, horizontal or circular orientations and supplemented with textual and numerical information of specific sizes and colors as defined by certain operating conditions.

In summary, 'Gauge Widgets'.

Actually, not breaking any new ground here, just exercising my ancient math and programming skills to build a tool kit for open source avionics. I actually recalled my university math and computer graphics course material from the days of Fortran and Watfor/Watfiv. Shoutout to Dr. Geunter Schrack.
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Old 02-12-2020, 08:45 AM
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Hey Vern,
Very slick! Did you notice the attitude display on the m5stack blog page?
https://m5stack.com/pages/blog-page. I am sure that you would need the "grey" version with the 9 -axis sensor to make it work but pretty small mark up for the additional functionality. I've got one on the way to play with via Amazon.

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Yup, we are working on it... but I'm not sure I would use it as a primary reference. Right now, all flight and engine data is taken from a Garmin or Dynon EFIS, hence the idea of a 'back seat display'. The M5 devices are very capable. Can turn one into an MP3 player as well....
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Old 02-12-2020, 05:22 PM
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Hah, it's just.... a means for displaying engine sensor information on a graphical display by using predefined scalable mathematical objects, each defined by colored bands, index pointers, and arranged in vertical, horizontal or circular orientations and supplemented with textual and numerical information of specific sizes and colors as defined by certain operating conditions.

In summary, 'Gauge Widgets'.

Actually, not breaking any new ground here, just exercising my ancient math and programming skills to built a tool kit for open source avionics. I actually recalled my university math and computer graphics course material from the days of Fortran and Watfor/Watfive. Shoutout to Dr. Geunter Shrack.
I was actually referring to the terminology you used... "One skilled in the art". Pretty much on every patent I've read.
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Old 02-12-2020, 08:42 PM
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I was actually referring to the terminology you used... "One skilled in the art". Pretty much on every patent I've read.
That's why I responded with a long technical run-on sentence.... you see them in patents a lot.

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Reposting with more examples. I've been testing the Beta version of my GaugeWidgets library.






I'm looking for one or two Beta testers who are willing to invest some time into checking out the library on the M5Stack platform. Just send me an email.

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What are the dimensions of the little gauges again?
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What are the dimensions of the little gauges again?
5cm x 5cm for the circuit board inside the case. The screen is smaller, but it is very bright (equal to my Dynon EFIS). M5Stack.com. I have a separate power/data module in development and another party is making a 3D printed glareshield swivel mount, a rear-seat snap-on mount, and a 3" bezel.

The ASI is pretty small, but it may be fine for a back seat display, which is the project driving the development. The engine gauges are fine, and comparable to a SkyView or G3X display.

Right now, they depend on serial or WiFi data from an EFIS (Dynon or Garmin), but I'm looking at MGL and GRT as well for future support.

I forked off a development for the OnSpeed team as well so they (we) can have a visual display of AOA to supplement the tone-based system.

All of this will be open-sourced once flight testing is finalized.

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Loving all of this and bringing up so many memories. When I read the word Fortran that's when I realized how much I've forgotten in my short life from back when I was working at Wang Laboratories !
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Loving all of this and bringing up so many memories. When I read the word Fortran that's when I realized how much I've forgotten in my short life from back when I was working at Wang Laboratories !
The Boomer generation has a tremendous amount of knowledge, experience and wisdom that will vanish when we are gone. Some of the young people I mentor in the tech industry just don't know what they don't know. I met with two Intel employees yesterday who have no memory of the dotcom era!

The concept of actually building your own airplane or avionics is lost on the iPhone generation, although I do see some positive effects from the STEM focus in very young people. See https://lokilegolauncher.wordpress.com/ for an example. [full disclosure, these girls are related to me].

My inspiration is the late, great Bob Axsom who spent countless hours and dollars advancing experimental aviation for no financial gain. Doug has wisely preserved much of this knowledge here: http://www.vansairforce.net/BuilderM...evelopment.htm

My goal is to publish as much as I can before I become functionally obsolete. Most of what I will publish will be flight tested, or commercial designs from my past. I may work at a plodding pace, but it will all come eventually.

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My goal is to publish as much as I can before I become functionally obsolete. Most of what I will publish will be flight tested, or commercial designs from my past. I may work at a plodding pace, but it will all come eventually.

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