This project is about creating an airplane instrument (such as an altimeter) for a flight simulator running on a PC. The code will read in two space-separated \"words\" containing the altitude and airspeed, with units, from a \"USBSerial port\". See my notebook page for details.

Dependencies:   TextLCD

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Comitter:
mblokzijl
Date:
Sat Nov 26 14:12:16 2011 +0000
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0:a2ecd3b777ac
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--- a/main.cpp	Sat Nov 26 13:41:01 2011 +0000
+++ b/main.cpp	Sat Nov 26 14:12:16 2011 +0000
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     //initialise the LCD
     lcd.printf("FlightSimInstru\nready!");
     
-    //setup some buffers - using ints crashed my mbed, not sure why
+    //setup some buffers - could use ints, too, but this way we can let the PC decide on the units, use floats etc.
     uint8_t ias[128];
     uint8_t alt[128];
     //clear them