Slava Pisarevskiy's blog

I took the original  Trim Wheel  project and changed that for myself.  The enhancements I made: I added 2 more encoders with buttons for 2 additional trim axis: roll and rudder.  Under the table mount Larger case with back cover which can be opened. I used STM32 with FreeJoy firmware+configurator . Front panel with no indicator since I fly in VR (I took a remix of the project ) My modified files for 3D printing is here . Wheel was tricky to print but I managed that after fine tuning of the 3D Printer. I took remixed front pannel without indicator since I fly in VR. I used usual STM32 (Blue pill) board with extra bread board which is not really necessary but I just had it hanging around from another project. To make things simple I just drilled 2 holes in the face plate 7 mm diameter for the encoders which fit nicely. I used KY-040 rotary encoders from AliExpress with came with knobs. That's looked perfectly. I might print out bigger knobs in future but for now it lo...

    To complete my Force-Feedback Flight controls I needed a rudder pedals so this is Marksman-XX FFBeast Rudder pedals from Viktor "MyCyJIbMaHuH" (translated as "Muslim"). These pedals Viktor produce privately and they are quite popular. He designed these pedals initially for dogfight for himself. Originally Viktor designed them as spring-based pedals (and can be reverted to spring) but now these are equipped with emerging FFBeast force-feedback mechanism. These pedals give amazing control and sense of the aircraft especially with complex maneuvers during dogfight. These are almost replica of pedals from US WW2 Fighters and up to Sabre using pendulum mechanism as far as I know. I purchased a kit because it was a cost efficient option for me. Making pedals out of the kit is pretty simple. That's the parcel and packaging - you can appreciate the quality of the packaging.     That's what come with the kit. All cables (almost), breaking blocks, bolts and nuts a...

There is a great instruction on Steam how to do it but it is not precise yet and did not work for my case. The issue with above-mentioned instruction is that it does not provide way to precisely recreate game save filenames. Unfortunately, the game-save tool does not print out full name of the files for some reason so we kind of guess. I hope it will be fixed soon but meanwhile you can use below approach. Within saves folder you have file container.XYZ file which is basically map between Xbox file names and Snowrunner native filename which Steam is using. It is pretty easy to do this mapping manually especially for files with has sequential numbering. In order to do it, you need a HEX editor. For example this https://hexed.it/ works fine. Just open container.XYZ from your XBOX WGS folder in the HEX editor. What we need to do next is to get XBOX name and rename file with this name to SnowRunner Steam name and we can do it by looking into hex editor. The format is the following. Mappin...

Plantbook.io I believe that many people would love to have plants but they don’t go for it because it is time consuming and sometimes stressful activity especially using trial and error approach. Moreover, these days we already have enough things to think about and for example keeping watering schedule feels too much.  The result, people avoid to have beautiful peace of nature at home. Or plants suffer without proper care cause stress. In addition to this, I also believe that plants and agriculture as a whole is a crutial area for entire planet especially considering food and water shortage in some areas. In the coming future the problems will be getting bigger and bigger unless we start solving them. In future, we will also need technologies to grow edible plants for space exploration. Hence, I firmly believe that modern technologies can make the process of growing plants not only easier but more efficient from resources prospective. I’d love to talk whether y...

At last... I finished my first ever my mini featured film :) It is dedicated to my flying lessons at Central Coast Aero Club and in particular to circuits practice prior first solo flight. It took me almost a year to put all bit and pieces together so I hope you will enjoy it! I will appreciate any feedback and comments.

Do you sleep efficiently? Do you have sleeping issues? I'm pretty sure that majority of us are ambitious and really into maximizing our cognitive and physical performance to learn and achieve more. There are different ways to do it such as regular exercises, healthy food, nutrients, etc. There is not doubt that they all work well but what we sometimes miss is healthy and efficient Sleep! I have been struggling with sleep for quite a while until... I read book - "Sleep" by Nic k Littlehales. You are not going to believe but this book helped me to solve all my sleeping problems. Now I sleep all night long with no waking up and feel refreshed every morning. Using technics from this book I optimized my sleep-related routines and now I also can control amount of sleep during a week without affecting my performance. For example, if I have night out with friends or need to push longer hours at work. The core of the book is R90 (Recovery 90) program wh...