Question DIY MiGE DD Wheel Controller Question

I am currently looking to build a direct drive wheel using a small MiGE (130ST-M10010), but I don't know what controller to use, I have seen people use the SimuCUBE force feedback controller, with IONI drives, but they stopped making the FFB controller board. I've also seen people on here using an ODrive to drive hoverboard motors in their DD wheels, would the single motor 48V ODrive 3.5 from China be a good option in combination with this servo. If you have any other suggestions for a controller let me know.

Thank you in advance.

Hello,
When you choose a controller you need to be sure that it will provide enough power. With the Kt of the motor and the torque that you want to be able to deliver, you can know the current that you need from the controller. Then with the bus voltage and the resistance of the motor, you can check if you are able to achieve this current (I=U/R).
Simply put, you just need to be sure that your controller can deliver enough current with you motor.
Hope it can helps

I'm in the same boat, ordered a M10010 and trying my luck on this one: https://hackaday.io/project/163904-open-ffboard

Still too soon to give any feedback but their discord is very well documented, it's working with odrive, vesc and Biss-C encoder

Yeah, electrically I'm pretty sure the ODrive would be capable, my question was more on the software support side of things, sorry if I didn't make it clear in the original post.

Thanks for the info, it looks interesting, might just be what I need. Do keep us updated on your sim wheel.

Vnm do a board that can control the aasd driver and the mige driver !

Its competitively priced too

@Hoantv

yes. noth of them

I'm having a similar issue. I have a motor, encoder and a USB controller that is provided with library. However, I currently looking for a software/library that will allow me to emulate a device controller that can be seen by the game (send the position of the motor to the game, and send the force feedback from the game to the controller).
So far, I found the following project (https://jan-balke.com/) which is using a Odrive controller as you mentioned.
The bad sad of this project, it is only compatible with Assetto corsa.. In fact, the force feedback is obtained through sharded memories with make it only compatible with AC.
Please let me know if you find a better salutation that do NOT required any addition board/wiring (e.g. the Odrive that you mentioned)

I've looked into the Open FFBoard, and it looks like it's just what I need. Gonna research it further and hopefully start ordering some parts. I think I'm gonna go with the Open FFBoard and a chinese ODrive 3.5 to drive the motor.

I remember reading a discussion in Benu's thread about a direct drive wheel using a howerboard motor (https://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/dd-wheel-with-hoverboard-motor.13178/), for a short while they were using an ODrive to drive the motor, I am not really sure why they stopped using it, but it's all probably in the thread. I am not really sure what you mean by USB controller, if you could clarify a bit we could help you more. Another option is to use the Open FFBoard like I'm planing to do, use it to control the ODrive that drives the motor. They are available on Tindie for a reasonable price (https://www.tindie.com/products/gigawipf/open-ffboard-stm32f407-usb-interface-only/).

Sorry for the lack of clarity.


Depending on the controller, you can have different interfaces (different ways to communicate with the controller) e.g USB, CAN, SPI... Like the Odrive controller, my controller can be connected directly to the PC through the USB port. Since those controllers can be connected directly to the PC, I would like to avoid using any external part like the FFBoard. This is why I’m referring to this project (https://jan-balke.com/) where the Odrive controller is directly connected to the PC by USB (The problem is that this project only support Assetto corsa).


Was it clear enough ? Thanks in advance for your help.

Thanks for clarifying, I was under the impression that you have an intermediate board between your PC and the motor driver, like an Arduino or an STM board. If you post the model of your controller, we could see what projects might be viable. Keep in mind that it being able to connect directly to a PC does not guarantee being able to use it for a wheelbase, because there is usually some software involved that takes the force feedback information from the game and translates it for the controller to use, which might not be compatible with your controller. These are all assumptions, when you post the model number we will know for sure.

My controller is similar to a Odrive. If we can solve this problem for an Odrive controller, we can solve it for my controller.
I can make it work with with Jan-Balke project (https://jan-balke.com/) but since the project is done with shared memories, it's only compatible with AC...

If we can avoid spending extra money on an additional hardware it would be nice...

Thanks in advance for your help

Besides FFB controller for AC servo. I will release completed FFB driver that uses 48V and used for servo 25Nm, 23b encoder soon.

Then I recommend you check out Benu's thread (https://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/dd-wheel-with-hoverboard-motor.13178/), and see how they have done it. Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance.

Do you have a link where we could find out more information?

hi. i dont know if this thread is still alive. i would like to know what u decided to use to drive your motor with. i own a dd build in south africa by a company called insecta tech. it looks like the arnt in bussianess anymore. My wheel consists of an stepper motor an odrive unit and an arduino micro and connects via usb. it works in most games. i was looking into changing it because it does not work in rf1 or rf2

I'm not using anything at the moment, as the project got put on hold because I don't have the time or the money right now to build it.