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Hi everybody! My names Nicholas and I'm in Adelaide, South Australia. I have a basic knowledge of electronics, interested in Rally, partly built my sim rig and always looking for improvements with it. Love high quality audio and anything to do with cars. I hope to find like minded people of all walks of life who like me enjoy sim racing and modding.

I guess I gotta start somewhere. Hi my name is Ron and I live in the Seattle area. I'm currently building a wind simulator and was directed to this site to D\L simtools. What an incredible amount of information. Kinda makes me think I should consider building a motion cockpit.

Hey all, Thomas here. I'm just finishing my semi-custom 8020 build (can't post links yet, but it's on the ISRTV forums search for 'Building the SuperSport Evolution' if anyone's interested) and gosh darn it I had to run across a rear traction loss only build. Between my own 'it's never good enough' personality and some prodding from my 'I don't have my own rig so let's make yours awesome' friend, I'm looking to head down that road.

Even if I had the funds (which I don't this soon after my initial build) I'm not looking to invest an off-the-shelf solution. According to the designer of my rig, I need "pivot on the front, and casters underneath, plus a DC motor with a 4" arm". Ha! Sounds so easy. I need to do a lot of digging through projects to translate that into my own build.

Most projects I see thus far are more complex, so I'll likely need some help teasing out just the relevant traction loss parts. FAQ #174 here I come!

Thanks @noorbeast . I was happily working my way through the rear traction loss FAQ, when a chance conversation with @Nick Moxley it was suggested that with my rig I could pull off a compact seat mover and get some motion too. Grrr, now there's that rabbit hole too!

Actually it sounds fantastic. I'm in the middle of your own DX Racer - Compact Simulator thread, but the photos alone make me think it's viable.

So now I've got two pieces to work out. I'll do some more reading then start up a thread.

Here's the current'ish state of the rig - needs some final painting but fundamentally built.

Hi guys

I'm Harry and 49 years young
I'm a newby in motion-sim's but since i've tried one at home off a sim-race buddy i want one!!!
I only do i-racing the last months and it's the best out there imho,and i did a lot of other sims like Rf1&2,AC,RR,LFS.Race07 etc etc
In RL i have a lot off experience with karting(fanatic recreant driver) and i'm racing online about 3 years now.
I have a decent game-pc and fanatec wheel and pedals and a DIY rig with 32inch tripples.

But now i want too take it too the next level with motion!!!
I've downloaded simtools and ordered arduino and motomonster boards and become a member here
Want too say thnx too all the guy's who shared there pictures and experience's off all there nice work
And offcourse i hope that there are still guy's who want too help me a little bit with the electrical and software problems i'm sure i run into
With the mechanical things i think i have none too little problems because i do things like that for a long time(handyman)

Best regards Harry aka The RoNiN

Hi all, New guy here. I'm Craig from the UK, I was looking into a general racing rig, and I stumbled across this site. I all ready think some motions is the way to go! so plenty of reading for me. Just thought I'd say hi. Do many pre-built motion rigs come up for sale?

Hi everyone,
My name is Roguen. Just joined the forum out of Chicago. I'm just getting back into gaming and have always been interested in building a rig of my own. Look forward to spending a lot of time here.

Hello everyone, i'm Rico from Pearland, TX, im a sim racer thats looking to buy a Next level racing motion platform to upgrade my Obutto R3volution rig. I'm also looking at getting into flight simulation.

Welcome @mayhem , @aceinthesky ,

You will find all the info you could ever want here lol, just have a search and read away!

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Hi all,

My name is Nicolas and I live in France. I'm very interested in building my own motion sim as I play many race simulation games like IRacing, RFactor, GTR, Project Cars, Assetto corsa...

On the other hand, I would like to work with young students on a motion simulator dedicated to road safety training and education. The idea is to build a low cost simulator that could be replicated by other schools or university in order to sensitize youth to road safety.

I think that this site is the perfect place for us to get all the information we need to develop a low cost 2DOF/3DOF motion simulator for that purpose.

We would like to use an open source driving simulator that has been developed for research, industry and training by DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence). This software is OpenDS https://www.opends.eu/home which proposes a free version.

However we will need a simtool plugin for that software...I'll post a request in the corresponding thread for that. It could be great to see simtools used for other applications than pure entertainment.