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Hi @ll,

my Name is Michael, i´m from Germany and 35 years old.
I came across this forum and the whole 6dof subject after a long gaming night in Elite Dangerous. My friend posted a video of some motion sims and we discovered there are X-Sim plugins for Elite, too. Few videos later i discovered SilentChills excellent work and since then i´m sold to the idea of having my own 6dof motion simulator. I read SilentChills build thread and several other success stories and decided to start sourcing components for my own project and here i am. Comes the time when you need help from friends with knowledge, i hope to find friends here who can help me out now and then ;-)

My Background
Currently, i have 1,8 Children as my second child is still in the making and thats also my excuse for only making small steps on my projects (haha). Well, first comes family i guess.

For the last 10+ years i worked as a turner and miller on various CNC-machines, have access to a wide field of different manufacturing tools. I have a little experience in DIY, basic understanding of Electronics but am happy to learn new things. 3D CAD is done with Inventor Professional 2011 an i have a Rigidbot 3d Printer in my basement.

With this Printer i collect the first XP on Electronics DIY since i had to mod it with a 3rd party Mainboard and PSU. The original died on Power up :-D.

Any questions feel free to ask and please turn a blind eye on my english skills. Working on that aswell

cheers
Michael

@Robbie Teengd , dont panic about coins collecting. Its simple, start a new threads if you have an idea as to what design build you would like, even submit a picture of something or a sketch of what you would like to build.
Then DO NOT spam everyone's thread, be patient. Even reading a thread or scanning through it will give you one coin. Asking proper questions on other threads will add coins. More or less in a week, you could potentially rack up over 250 coins without much hassle. Thats what I did.
If parts are not so cheap and or not available, have a look around. Personally I am going the JRK route as I am useless and impatient at coding. Granted they cost more, but look a heck of a lot easier to set up.
There is the arduino and monster moto driver option. But it needs using an existing code and or needing someone to modify it. Well, thats what I have read so far. But unless you keep blowing them up like I have seen some members, it should be a bit cheaper. Still, Im a newbie and yet to finish my sim and add JRKS, so hopefully I dont not nuke them first up.
otherwise, just take a bit of time going through things, take notes and move forward.
Cheers, Andrew.

Hi, my name is Nelson, and I just started thinking about making a stewart platform motion sim.
Before going to the real thing, I am currently playing with a scale model with arduino and servos.
Once I'll understand all the aspects of the process, I'll start building something bigger, probably with the thanos electronics.

Thank you all for your future support

Nelson.

Hello from Australia, I've always been a simulator enthusiast and am now in a position where I can become a simulator builder. I am starting with a 6dof which is bold but considering the sheer amount of resources just on this site alone, I think I should be OK.

I stumbled across this site after searching for code for my arduino which connects 5 hobby servo's and one electric motor, thanks to eaorobbie, you're a bit of a champion. Only just bought arduino yesterday and by the end of the night I had a 2dof system working with LFS using the information and resources from this site.

Struggling a little bit with expanding to 5dof but have only spent a small amount of time trying. I have no electronics or coding experience but it all seems to make sense. Thanks mates.

Gday also from this sunburnt country. Im in Sydney , where do you hail from?
Yes , plenty of info here for sure. Ive also code no idea when it comes to coding , maybe drop @eaorobbie a line. Hence Im building a lowly 2 DOF with JRKS

Eaorobbie has allowed a lowly, non coder with a bit of brain to successfully setup a 2 dof in one night. He's the man. I'm down south near the Gong.

Hi guys, like many others starting out I can say that the amount of information are both overwhelming and very impressive. As someone with very little knowledge in electronics, all this seems almost impossible. But I do plan starting a project soon. I'm more interested in a 6dof platform for both flight and sim racers. I've seen what silenchill has done so I can say that I have a good base to start with. I've reached out to GA-Dawg and received a step-by-step guide for his build.

Hello to everyone from Modena Italy

Hi,
My name is Lluís, I'm 25 years old and I'm from Barcelona. My intention is to build a motion simulator mainly for space flying games, and I'm planning to use it with a VR headset. I'm new to all this, so I will probably start with a simple 2dof. I'm so happy I found this community, and I hope to learn as much as I can from its members. Thanks!

hello every one
i am new to this forum and to simulators
i am building a 360 degree simulator

@noorbeast thanks

hello I'm very happy to participate in this formus full of amazing projects !!!! I hope to be helpful!!!

Thank you! I will start reading for first!

Hi everybody,
Let me introduce myself :
I'm working on my own 3DoF sim and wanna test SimTools because the concept and the community seems to be really cool and dynamic.
I am french so for now I posted the WIP of my project on RacingFR forum but i will do the same here (when i'll get the rights) + full tutorial about making+hardware+software+setup for those who want to build a low cost 3DOF with yaw effect.
Currently I'm welding steel angles but i already bought all the hardware components to finish my sim. I would close my project about june.
Other than I am passionate about motorsport, especially endurance championship. My favourite race tracks are Bugatti, SPA, Laguna Seca, Nürburgring GP (I don't speak about Nordschleife).
I do regular trackdays with my Mazda MX5. In the real life I like the Circuit de Bresse, Les Ecuyers, la Ferté Gaucher. And I love auto mechanics.
You can find me in Project Cars and Assetto (joviperlapin).
See you soon
Jo