Hi all!
First off, apologies if I've posted this in the wrong section, I didn't know where to post this as it covers many areas so I'm hoping a moderator will move it to the appropriate section. I'll also introduce myself as an utter noob. Sorry but we all need to start somewhere and what's worse is that I'm hitting 40 next year but hoping there are a few more tricks that this old dog can learn so with your help, this will be the first of many posts I'm sure I'll make over the coming weeks/months.
So what is my project? It's relatively a simple requirement but difficult to implement. I'll explain first that I am what you'd call a hardcore flight Simmer specifically with DCS World and such have built myself a cockpit. The cockpit is loosely based on the FA18 superhornet. I've bought myself a PI3 B and the 7inch touchscreen display. The intention was to use this display as the upfront control panel that sits right in front of the pilot. I would then create a GUI and a backend program with a macros function so that when I put my grubby little finger on a button it would send a command to generate a keystroke and send to the PC.
In essence I wanted the PI to act as a peripheral keypad though a more intelligent one. However, upon reading and looking around on google it seems I'm not going to be able to do that or at least not as easy as I'd have hoped.
My question to you guys (and girls?) would be is what I want to do achievable? Do I need other programmable boards like leo-bodnar or Arduino or anything along those lines to make this work?
Any suggestions will be gratefully received as long as they are constructive!
Regards to all
Don