dsky-project

DSKY-Project

My open source journey to building a functional, historically-accurate DSKY interface that can be used in simulation.

v1.0 Hardware (Completed)

• Raspberry Pi 3B+ running VirtualAGC + driving the display & keyboard
• Nextion 4.3" LCD HMI (NX4827T043_11) display
• Alarm Panel PCB designed by Riley Rainey
• Hand assembled keyboard using Cherry MX blue key switches & Arduino UNO in USB HID mode
• 3D Printed shell components made from models created/modified by Riley Rainey/Manoel DaSilva from original MIT drawings or myself

v1.5 Hardware (In Progress)

• Raspberry Pi 3B+ running VirtualAGC + driving the display & keyboard
• Nextion 4.3" LCD HMI (NX4827T043_11) display
• Alarm Panel PCB designed by Riley Rainey
• Keyboard PCB designed by me with Cherry MX green key switches & LED backlighting
• 3D Printed shell components made from models created/modified by Riley Rainey/Manoel DaSilva from original MIT drawings or myself

v2.0 Hardware (Planned)

• Raspberry Pi 3B+ running VirtualAGC + driving the display & keyboard
• Custom EL display panel
• Alarm Panel PCB designed by Riley Rainey
• Keyboard switches assembled as per original spec using microswitches
• 3D Printed shell components made from models created/modified by Riley Rainey from original MIT drawings or myself

Software

• Drivers for display, alarm panel & keyboard written in Python3
• VirtualAGC project
• Project Apollo - NASSP

Setup

Raspberry Pi running VirtualAGC is driving the Nextion HMI, sending lamp instructions to the Alert board and reading keystrokes from Keyboard

Task List

• 1.0

• Build working GUI for HMI display

• Driver for Nextion HMI display

• Assemble alarm panel PCB

• Driver for alarm panel

• Assemble keyboard

• Driver for keyboard

• Update piDSKY2.py file

• Test with VirtualAGC

• 1.5

• Design & assemble a custom PCB for keyboard

• Improve code

• Refine GUI to more closely match original DSKY display

• Keyboard caps improvements

• Improve overall DSKY fit & finish & pave way to v2.0

References

VirtualAGC Project - I am so thankful that this exists because it has been my dream to build my own DSKY ever since I first learned of the project
Riley Rainey - His amazing work in designing the alert and keyboard PCBs, modeling the DSKY shell and inner components from original drawings gave me the opportunity to start this project
Manoel DaSilva - He created the HMI file which I modified and adapted to my code and the Cherry MX keyswitch stems I used.\