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How to make a DIY Racing Wheel?

Discussion in 'DIY peripherals' started by Mo165, Sep 23, 2015.

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How to make a DIY Racing Wheel?

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  1. Mo165

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    Hello i´m on my 2DOF Sim project.
    I already have a G25 Racing Wheel, but i want a Racing wheel with more buttons and in a GT3 or Formula racecarwheel look.

    Can anybody give me advises which steering wheel is cheap and better then a logitech and how i can make my own Racing wheel?

    Thanks :thumbs
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    Building your own wheel should not be a problem. I regularly come across old gaming wheels at local recycling at municipal rubbish dumps. These wheels, like the Mad Catz wheel I picked up could easily be augmented with extra functions and buttons, and controlled with a Teensy microcontroller which is easily programmed using Arduino software.
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    The problem is if you want Force Feedback you have just added a lot of complexity. Even though I have a new G29 wheel which I love, I have several other wheels with and without FFB and I am tinkering with them to learn about FFB.

    By the way, although I cut up the Mad Catz wheel for the sequential shifter and threw away the steering wheel I kept the mounting for the steering column with the intention of re-using it.

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    i have searching the web for nice tutorials about doing your own wheel from the ground up and it may not be that hard if... if you have acces to a metal laser cutter (wich is not that rare) or if you have acces to a steel shop that can bend tubes. :D

    - and as @iWill said, if you whant force feedback that is another issue :D for what i have seen, force feedback in a wheel is almost as hard as making a whole sim. i just dont know if it could be a better option to just buy a ffb wheel)

    if you do so, please keep posting

    fer
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    Simucube, Mige motor, Quick release, Wheel of choice/Build your own, Button plate of choice.....aaaaaand DIY wheel Done.
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