Recent content by lesthegringo

This particular USB hub is switched off by default so if it has been depowered, it remains off until you press the switch, which is a momentary press button rather than a bi-stable rocker. I need to find one either unswitched or with a latching type switch which will stay 'on' even when...

It took me longer to get all this done than I thought, including reversing two of the wires on one of the new cables that had me scratching my head a bit. The good bit is that, as of right now it all seems to be working. I am going to have to leave it all connected for a while, as with the old...

Actually, it will be pretty easy, I can machine some blank PCB to make it like a washer with a breakout pin and solder on some headers ***EDIT*** it was easier than that, the answer was staring me in the face - I drilled and tapped the washers, I can make eyelet connectors for both the USB...

I have made some tabbed washers from 0.025" brass sheet that I can use to solder the copper wire to. However the mounting is MDF and acrylic sheet, so there is no connectivity there. What I can do is make another thin washer to fit behind and then connect that to a common ground rail that...

Firstly, I can definitely say that having a commercial USB cable running from the PC directly to the USB hub does work fine, so I am certain that my DIY wiring is the issue. My issue is that having that setup causes me other headaches due to the design of my sim rig (shame I can't post a picture...

Thanks for the feedback. I did use old USB cables to make mine, on the basis that they were all colour coded and clearly were USB capable, plus some of them had plugs on one end saving me time. These all had either foil or wire braid sheathing and by sheer luck I chose to keep the cables as neat...

So does that explain why it works for a while, then stops working? I'm curious as to the reason for that, I still have other bits and pieces to do so need to try and avoid the same trap The other point is, are the USB 2.0 ports on the motherboard different from the USB 3.0 one other than the...

Thanks, I'll give that a go - but would that also explain the 'USB device not recognised' message? Understand, the connectors I am using were clearly designed for less specific use, however they do fit in very well with the look of a flight sim cockpit ;) The total cable run is actually about...

Hi all First of all, I need to make it clear that I am not a PC savvy guy, my thing is that I am building a DIY home cockpit so that I can use a flight sim game. This uses various things including Arduinos, OLEDS, screens switches, all of which I have received assistance from other like minded...

That's the problem - that is exactly what I want to use it for. If I use it as is, the image is spread so the three screens are all either compressed or stretched so none of them look OK. Outside the sim game, they work fine, but it is to allow the desktop to 'talk' to the game so that it...

A while back I tried to set up my flight and race sim rig with triple screens to see how it would go. At the time I borrowed a couple of Benq 24 inch 2560x1440 QHD resolution monitors to add to the one I used for my desktop, and used that to try, and it was OK , but a bit underwhelming for me...