We choose to print Apollo flight hardware...

[GreatOldOne]

...not because it is easy, but because it is FUN!

 

[pdentrem]

Movie set or simulator?

 

[GreatOldOne]

Movie set or simulator?

A bit of both.

https://opendsky.com

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The original unit was put together by the guys on the first link - S&T Geotronics. Then, a bunch of like minded space nerds got together and started refining the STL files to get an ever increasingly accurate representation of the real thing. My own humble input in this was relocating the switch, and also modeling a dummy circular multi pin connector shroud for a relocated USB port. I also redid the top bezels and lamp field layout.

There’s another chap who’s rewriting the code that runs on the Arduino Nano inside to give more functionality. Currently I can display time, GPS coordinates and output from a 6 axis accelerometer, and output sound clips depending on which program you enter.

 

[Janderso]

I love it. I’m reading Michael Collins book, he talks about the, verb and noun entries.

Great work!

 

[rwm]

Wow. That is really cool. My brain almost hit gimbal lock.
What do the display number represent? I was thinking it would be really cool if this could function as a desk calculator.
Robert

 

[GreatOldOne]

The current software can:
Display the time from the RTC
Display the GPS coordinates (not that the real AGC could do that)
Display the attitude of the unit as read from the 6 axis IMU
Play sound clips from a built in MP3 player depending on which program number you enter.

That’s the “official” software from S&T. The guys over at the open dsky google group have been working on something more ambitious, which I’m slowly trying to get compiled and loaded - but that does simulated launches, throws the famous 1201 & 1202 alarms for fun etc etc. If only I could find that missing .h file.

(EDIT) - A snippet of video of me testing prior to completing all the prints, hence the different bezel and darker shade of grey. As you can tell from the photos above, I printed the final parts in more representative colours.

 

[markba633csi]

Will it get Sandra Bullock safely back to earth?
M

 

[GreatOldOne]

Nope. She used a Soyuz and then a Chinese copy of a Soyuz.

 

[rwm]

I assume the original case was aluminum? Was it stamped or cast or milled? That would not be too hard to replicate now that you have the dimensions.
Robert

 

[GreatOldOne]

I think it was a mix of cast and milled aluminium. And the back case that housed all the relays for the high voltage display may have been some sort of composite... not sure on that.