https://threehoundsdesign.com/tags/6-pack/Recent content in 6 Pack on Three Hounds DesignHugoen-usSun, 25 Jan 2026 21:27:55 -0700https://threehoundsdesign.com/projects/6_pack_panel/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:27:55 -0700https://threehoundsdesign.com/projects/6_pack_panel/<p><img src="https://threehoundsdesign.com/projects/6_pack_panel/6PackIllustration_hu_e5705c718b9af9f5.webp" width="1600" height="893" alt="" loading="lazy" ></p> <h1 id="cessna-172-six-pack-building-a-physical-panel-overlay">Cessna 172 Six-Pack: Building a Physical Panel Overlay</h1> <p>As part of my Cessna 172 flight simulator project, I wanted to start with something relatively contained: recreating the C172 instrument panel around a physical overlay.</p> <p>The idea sounds straightforward. Put the instruments on a monitor, build a panel around them, and add the physical controls needed to interact with them.</p> <p>In practice, the display isn&rsquo;t the difficult part.</p> <p>The difficult part is figuring out how to turn a flat computer monitor into something that actually feels like an instrument panel.</p>