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Apollo Simulator Wiring
Most of the work so far has been pretty fun and interesting, but now it’s time for the tedious part: wiring every…
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Apollo Simulator Mission Map
I wanted the mission map, located under the desk’s lid, to be a guide for the entire mission. I settled on the…
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Apollo Simulator Desk
With the panels printed, the simulator needed a proper home. I wanted it to look and feel like a regular desk the…
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Apollo Simulator Banana Jacks
The Wiring panel has 10 banana jacks, numbered 0 through 9. The goal of this panel was to make my kids solve…
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Apollo Simulator 3D Printed Panels
With the panel layout finalized in Inkscape, it was time to turn those drawings into real panels. Each panel is 3D printed…
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Apollo Simulator Panel Layout
With the electronics picked out, the next big step was figuring out how everything would actually fit together on the desk. The…
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Apollo Simulator Electronics
I spent some time researching the Apollo 11 mission and came up with a full list of activities that the simulation should…
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Apollo Simulator Inspiration
Several years ago I came across Jeff Highsmith’s Mission Control Desk project and immediately filed it away as something I wanted to…
