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I'm definitely not a medical professional so I can't really answer. If you took it to your doctor, I'd trust that they would know far better than me. But also, the pen in the video is a single use/dose pen. I've seen the use of the Ozempic pens that have a "turn to select dose" feature but haven't taken one apart.

My professional background is in software engineering. Otherwise I'm just a nerd who's interested in how things work and endlessly curious about the world.

I haven't been following what they've been doing for a while unfortunately so I don't know what the latest is. Sorry.

@@peterlanoieThey mention the "DIY Knobster" as not compatible anymore so at least you have made yourself famous, or maybe infamous. :) I'm looking into making my own add-on that somehow mimicks a knobster but with more rotaries (like 5), and few buttons that you can feel (while in VR and memorize what they are mapped to. Like the G1000 knobs. A popup toolbar window that shows you your hardware knobs and which of them are mapped to what to help if you forget the mappings. And some configuration switcher control also in hardware that can be used to switch out a config to another. Also a bit like knobster, but for a whole set of mappings in one step. MobiFlight has all the functionality needed to create the encoder mappings and the config switchings (via preconditions). But I haven't figured a way to connect to mobiflight from an external program via an api to get the status of the config switch, which I need in order to feed the toolbar window the grapics for the current setup. So, veery early in my possible project for this, but creating something like this would be really neat I think. The end result is a "knobster" panel with more than one rotary and a number of buttons that is connected to selected knobs in the cockpit, with the hardware designed for VR use and everything configurable in mobiflight (which makes it easy to create configs). No promises of any success in this. But it looks doable IMHO.

@@kristianjorg418 That sounds great! Definitely talking my language. Unfortunately, I haven't "flown" in too long, being consumed with family, work, and 3d printing so I haven't even seen what doesn't work any more. I look forward to hearing what progress you make on the project.

I have never tried orthogonal drawings. I can see about giving it a try. I assume the sketchup viewer will let you take measurements. There shouldn't be anything hard to measure and you'd probably want to adjust for your setup anyway.

@@peterlanoie Yes, I wanted to say that I love your layout, I've seen several other cockpit builds and I think yours is just about perfect. It's compact and well thought out with everything you need. When I mention orthogonal drawings I think I am meaning have you considered making builders plans available?

In the keyboards programming software you can select the key combos. But I don't remember if the function keys are included.

It was a long time ago when I did mine. Honestly don't recall if I had any major issue. I vaguely recall a problem but I think it was just me not selecting something correctly. I think I flashed it right from airmanager.

Oooo. I wasn't aware of this setting. Maybe it's new (I haven't been flying in a while). Thanks for the tip!

I built it. Please explore my channel. There isn't much but there are a few videos that cover the setup.

There is now. It was on back order when I first put together the system.

The knobster is for use with air manager which itself connects to msfs.

This rig is home built. The electronic components (controllers, displays, button panel) are purchased. The frame and "glare shield" were my own design and construction. The electronic components all together were about $1000US. The frame was all from lumber that I had on hand already so I don't know how much it would be. It's mostly 3/4" plywood, 2x4s, 1x6 planks, and a handfull of screws. The 2 instrument displays are touch screens. At one point they both worked. Then one stopped responding to touch commands, but it's been mostly used for display. I think the problem is a windows touch screen issue, not the screen itself. Note that when showing G1000 screens, it doesn't have all the perimeter buttons and such. It's not totally realistic. The touch screens are most effective with Air Manager powered traditional instruments. Combined with the Knobster hardware knob, it works pretty well (touch a virtual knob to select it, such as the altimeter barometer knob, or an OBS heading knob, then use the Knobster to manipulate it).

Apart from the commercially available controllers and TV, I build this setup myself. A more comprehensive tour with links to components is over here: czcams.com/video/DTv3UAIfdik/video.html

I think I set it up on the free version but I can't recall for sure and I haven't run it in some time to test/check. Sorry, I know that doesn't help much but wanted to reply with something.

@@peterlanoie No problem, Peter. I think I'll order some parts anyway. Thanks for your time!

I used a regular half sheet large white stick on shipping label (Avery 8126) and on it printed a grid of white text with black background. I forget exactly what I used for the text layout, but anything that would let you make a grid/table and format it how you like and to the reasonable dimensions should work. I assume that I used a google sheet or open office spreadsheet. Printed these out on the sheet, then cut them all out at the grid lines. After cutting, the white of the paper showed through so I also used a sharpie to go back over all the lines to darken the edges.

@@peterlanoie Thank you so much and can I ask you where did you print the text on that? Regular printer?

@@damiansladek just a regular laser printer. Mailing labels usually work ok on most regular printers.

God no 💀

Attitude indicator*** but you’re literally turning left and the instruments show you’re going right 😭🤣

1080p 15.6" touch screens. Specifically: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P7JV7SV

Do the flight panels work with Xbox? I really want to make a home cockpit because I wanna be a pilot so if u know, can u tell me if the panels work with Xbox? Thanks :)

@@Tommydoestuff Those touch screen panels each require their own HDMI video feed (I'm driving them with a 3 display video card) and a USB connection for the touch input. I have not tried them on an xbox but my limited understanding is that flight sim on the xbox is intended for a single screen.

In my limited experiments with the glass bed, I've found that printing on it heated (60C for PLA) has worked well. The prints release easily and it seems that there tends to be a very strong static electricity attraction between the glass and part. This likely is helping to keep it in place during printing. Bed adhesion on the textured surface has generally been good. Whatever material is on the glass that forms the textured surface must have some chemical bond that provides a decent hold. After the bed cools, the prints typically release on their own and come off without effort. I have found that over time I've started having more issues with corner peeling or first lines not sticking and curling back up onto the nozzle despite adjustments to z-offset, feed rate, or flow rate. I have been printing quite a bit in the year I've had the printer. I clean thoroughly between every print with isopropyl alcohol. While the bed looks nearly as good as it did when I first got the printer, there is evidence that the surface material has slowed disappeared. I've ordered a replacement as well as one of the steel magnetic flex plate solutions to try. I have never used additional adhesion (e.g. glue stick) on either side of the glass bed and only once tried using painters tape to see how it behaves and what texture I get off of it. For many of the prints I've been doing the seams between strips of tape would be unacceptable to the presentation surface finish. Perhaps with a lot of work I could get tape strips on with a minimal gap, but I'm skeptical it wouldn't still leave a visible mark.