Showing off new features for my home cockpit: Priority alerts, sounds and more status indicators
This uses my X4-SimPit extension for X4: Foundations, that sends ship telemetry via a socket to my node-red plumbing pipeline, which in turn forwards data to Websockets, SocketIO and MQTT. Various subscriber listen on the new messages to run blinken lights and my HUD app. I’m using the well known message format also used by Elite Dangerous so it’s compatible with that game as well.
Pick your poison: https://makertube.net/w/nUoG2ZPeAW1QhT3A2BXRrM / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1PkVhH9cc
Oh yeah… and on Linux PC
Let me know what you think!
X4-SimPit code (pending changes) is here: https://github.com/bekopharm/x4-simpit
The cockpit panel has a dedicated project page here: https://simpit.dev/
Oh wow. Baz has a new video on his 1:1 DIY Colonial Viper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB9ErWMM7Tk
#bgstatsapp #boardgame grid for February 2025
A few #boardgames were brought out after 10+ years to see if they still work. Hamburgum and Redneck Life still hit the spot for vastly different reasons.
The cylons are on a winning steak in #battlestargalactica. Time to tweak our house rules in favour of the humans? Too soon to tell tbh. BSG is still a fun and challenging game after 1000+ plays.
#sosayweall
The Battlestar Galactica quilt I made and gifted to a friend a few years back. #quilt #battlestargalactica #tapestry #handquilting #applique
How to enrage* nerds.
Step 1, attached.
There is no Step 2.
* Or perhaps amuse.
#humor #startrek #starwars #firefly #stargate #dune #spaceballs #battlestargalactica
#scifi #DoctorWho
Somedays you just want to render huge images of the mighty Galactica. #Lightwave3d #BattlestarGalactica #scifi
The Fleet Scouts made it to the core of a Cylon Basestar, only to find a dying AI whose demise will trigger a ship-wide self-destruct. Now they have to flee, only an open door and catwalk beyond reveals a trio of Mark 1 Centurions waiting!
They've also learned that the Cylons use organic brains to help them jump, thus explaining why there were comatose humans in a storeroom and a brain floating in a large globe with star system graphics all around it.
I'm just leaving this here for... reasons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_(Battlestar_Galactica)
I forgot that #KhotunKhan also caused a ruckus on #BattlestarGalactica
Demo: FreeSpace 2 Open with head tracking from Viture Pro XR glasses IMU data – on Linux PC
Until now I used OpenTrack with my DIY IR tracker or the Neuralnet tracker. I knew that my XR glasses feature IMU data though and the xr_driver of the Breezy Desktop project allows to access the data via IPC on Linux PC. So I did what Linux user do: I wrote a script to access the IMU data and forwarded it via UDP to OpenTrack:
Pick your poison to watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njuumLUvqrM / https://makertube.net/w/2bNyxJhdyydTeFq17onikv
This reminded me that I also wrote a proof of concept to implement the FaceTrackNoIR (or OpenTrack) protocol into FreeSpace 2 Open on Linux PC ( https://makertube.net/w/7VtfAjW7EiAUS5aiPwG7if ) so I gave it a spin to test the data bridge. That was smooth sailing!
The mod is Diaspora: Shattered Armistice, still awesome today: http://diaspora.hard-light.net/ (Warning: This may fuel a desire to re-watch the BSG series again ).
The bridge code can be found at https://github.com/bekopharm/xr_to_opentrack (pending changes).
It works with the Breezy GNOME xr_driver: https://github.com/wheaney/breezy-desktop (but the Vulkan one works probably too but that’s untested). It should also be compatible with other glasses that have IMU for Breezy available.
I remember when this came out and 10 year old me liked it. As I got older and rewatched it...I don't hate it but don't like it either, lol. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#SciFi
#Battlestar
#Galactica
#BattlestarGalactica
#BattlestarGalactica1980
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