🛠️ JOURNAL.md

🗓️ May 20, 2025 (started)

✅ What I Did

• Finalized the project idea for FlyIt Rig V1 — a DIY flight controller for MSFS 2025
• Wrote and submitted my project proposal on Hack Club’s Pitstop
• Planned the project structure (yoke → throttle → control panel → brake system)
• Estimated a $150 BOM and listed all hardware components needed
• Found YouTube videos as inspiration/research for the throttle and brake mechanics
• Wrote a full, clean README.md for my GitHub repo

⏱️ Time Spent

~3 hours

📚 What I Learned / Struggled With

• Learned how to break down a massive idea into modular, manageable parts
• Researched part compatibility — especially bearings, rods, and potentiometers
• Felt a little overwhelmed at first, but breaking it into phases helped a lot
• Struggled to find some exact hardware sources that accept Hack Club card — might need help or workarounds for that later

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🚀 Next Up:

• Begin CAD for the yoke mechanism
• Start sourcing/ordering parts from vendors (or ask Hack Club for support)
• Prep second journal entry after progress on CAD or prototyping

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🗓️ May 20, 2025 (Entry #2 - Yoke Design Phase)

✅ What I Did

• Starte working on the Yoke mechanism CAD design
• Took inspiration from existing YouTube builds, but began my own design from scratch using Fusion 360
• Figured out how the shaft and bearings will align inside the casing
• Identifie that a solid mounting system is going to be critical (and maybe tricky) for smooth movement

⏱️ Time Spent

~ 4 hours

📚 What I Learned / Struggled With

• Learned how to model support brackets and fit the 8mm steel rods properly
• Realized 3D printed parts need extra spacing/tolerances to avoid binding
• Still unsure about the best place to mount potentiometers for max accuracy — will need to test with physical parts

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🔜 Next Up

- Finish detailed yoke model (there are still lots of things :( )

🗓️ May 29, 2025 (Entry #3 - Yoke Design Phase)

yeah ik its after a long time i was having exams :c

✅ What I Did

• Did more working on the Yoke mechanism CAD design
• figured how can i attach yoke to bearings and make it move.

⏱️ Time Spent

~ 4.5 hours

📚 What I Learned / Struggled With

• It was very difficult :( learnd legit a lot of things about mechanical parts and tried to attach them to each other.
• struggle alot with it and thats what i learned

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🔜 Next Up

• have to make a enclosure where i can fit that shaft
• more work on Yoke mechanism left.

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🗓️ June 5 2025 (Entery #4 Yoke design done :)

It was again after a very very long time sorry i was again occupied with papers and stuff and locked in in building!

✅ What I Did

• completed the Yoke mechanism finally and also update the Yoke folder in guthub
• assembled all the things together in fusion.

⏱️ Time Spent

~15 hours it was like during the two weeks i cant update my journal in beween.

📚 What I Learned / Struggled With

• I used few pre built models for the parts i can find as per my requirement.
• Assembling all the things together got me it was terrible have to change all the designs again and again to adjust.
• I am pretty good now in 3D modelling

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🚀 Next Up:

• Begin CAD for the Controller like cessna
• hace to make a rough sketch first.

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🗓️ June 11 2025 (Entery #5 startede :)

Finally onto the next stage : Base of controller :

buttons top:

Leverr:

✅ What I Did

• Started the Controller Mechanism CAD and made the Controller folder in repo
• completed almost all the parts except for

⏱️ Time Spent

~ 9 hours it was like during few days.

📚 What I Learned / Struggled With

• Struggle with first designing the main part hw many lever should be there how could the levers work and things
• It was smth actually difficult to make mechanism for ez for CAD lol. (I almost crash out)
• Finally added 3 levers like cessna

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🚀 Next Up:

• have to complete controller design and also assemble them together 😭😭

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🗓️ June 13 2025 (Entery #6 Controller Box DONNNE :)

Finally Completed the controller box.

working insight:

Assembled:

✅ What I Did

• Completed all the parts for Controller and assembled it !!
• Another part of my project is completed.

⏱️ Time Spent

~ 5 hours

📚 What I Learned / Struggled With

• It was a pretty easy thing so nothing much struggle this time just copy pasting elements twice.

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🚀 Next Up:

• Move onto the Padel system and them coddddeeeeee it

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🗓️ June 14 2025 (Entery #7 A LOGO and design )

I made a logo and CAD for it :)

✅ What I Did

• made the logo folder for it to upload png and stl of logo
• A major thing added out of the box tho.

⏱️ Time Spent

~ 15 mins for cad and 45 mins for designing it :\

🚀 Next Up:

• Move onto the Padel system !!!!

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🗓️ June 15 2025 (Entery #8 Finally padels half way done ! )

finally started working on padels and stuff took inspo for mechanism from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vinw3yeDGUQ

✅ What I Did

• made the CAD for padels, Padels holder and potentiometer holder
• made the folder for pedals and added files that i worked on today and yesterday.
• ALso I used few previous models like edited them a bit.

⏱️ Time Spent

~ 5.5 hour approx

🚀 Next Up:

• complete pedal system and move onto code (I cant w8 to comlete it )

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I saw a lil bit lacking in journal 😭 like how the potentiometers and where which part will be used that i will be buysing thi swill ensure that i am buying right quantity and thing so will be updating it soon by night

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Here which material will be used where is mentioned 😤!

Yoke:

• 2x 42307 bearings for yoke holder
• mounting hubs 6mm for potentiometer holder
• 2x potentiometer for recognising movements
• 2x 8mm x 200mm Steel Rod for yoke movement
• 2x puch buttons for yoke handle.
• 2x Almunium angles rod (forgot to add these initially)
• Linear bearing 8mm*45mm (realized i have selected smaller one)

### Controller: - 3x potentiometer for each lever - few toggle buttons - few leds - few push buttons