Quote Originally Posted by richard View Post
what is the shortest switch activation period that you would expect to need to detect and how quickly do you need to respond ?
generally any key press under 50mS i would just ignore . for basically "static" switches 200 0r 300 mS would be more than adequate

why care about noise and debouncing if quick responses are not required

The only issue I can think of is that I have rotary encoders. Nothing is preventing the user from turning 2 encoders at the same time while on auto-pilot.

There's also the possibility of someone flying with a co-pilot/navigator; that could mean the "possibility" of up to 4 encoders moving at the same time. I want to be ready for that.


My goal is to undercut the market by a wide margin. It's very possible someone with vested interests would try their best to find "bugs" with my product, and drag my name on flight sim groups.

For example: back in college during the late 70ies, Burroughs brought in a main-frame but we thought it sucked. So most a lot of computer students flooded the queues with duplicates of their jobs. The techs from Burroughs were not prepared; the machine failed, badly, and IBM came back. We didn't have vested interests, we were just goofballs, but we did crash the system.

Just look at this thing; couple of switches and 3 LEDs for $140CAD. That's insane. That's worth something like $20 at most. There's very few competition, so they pretty much do as they please.

I'm not the next Delorean, but I still expect resistant.