A new concept of 2DOF motion cockpit...

Hello, we are a group of aeronautical engineering students and glider pilots that, after founding a fligh club (and trying to make it an Akaflieg, very famous and common in Germany) received the opportunity to make a flight simulator from a crashed glider.
After a lot of work, we made it and it works perfectly.
But ,some months ago, we saw that was relatively easy to give it some movement to maximice the proper flight sensations.
And here we are, we started with the movement project in september, and currently we're building all the electronics ( we're using an Arduino Uno, two IBT2, two dps 600pb and two Bus wiper motors 24V, model SWF 402.839) and finishing the base to build it.

That's an interesting project, and I wish you good luck and much success with it.
Please note that wiper motors are not very strong, especially when considering a full-frame simulator. I made very good experiences with second-hand wheelchair motors, which you can get from ebay.
Here is an example with a rather good (and fix) price: https://www.ebay.de/itm/Rollstuhl-A...h=item3faf003695:g:50UAAOSwOYRbzLYc:rk:1:pf:0
You could also consider a G-Seat. The available space in your cockpit seems to be quite limited, but it may still be possible to mount some base and backrest paddles. See here for examples of G-Seat projects based on SimTools: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/diy-g-seats.172/
A G-Seat can also be used as an addition to a 2DOF simulator, which has the advantage that you have pitch and surge as well as roll and sway separated from each other. With a pure 2DOF simulator, pitch and surge (as well as roll and sway) are simulated in the same way, which means that they can eliminate each other.
Example: Your plane goes down (negative pitch angle) and at the same time accelerates (positive pitch angle in a 2DOF simulator).

Thanks for your reply, for the moment (considering we re using a gliding simulator, ) the motors seems to have the sufficient power, however, if it dont go as expected we will buy wheelchair motors.
We have in our favour that we re applying all the force to the back of the cabin, so the torque do the rest

Again, thank you, we will post with our progress.

After a lot of work, we have the base of the cockpit and currently working on the cabin itself, due to being made of fiberglass it needs a reinforcement just below the cardan.
If all works properly in about 1 week we should be able to mount all the pieces and have all the "hardware" installed, only waiting to install the software

More news, today we put the cockpit in its final position.

Of course! As we are planning to use it in events, we balanced it using an (very convenient) old ramp jack from the glider, (image Below). We simply mounted all the stuff in the sim (screen, instruments panel) and 3 people, from light to heavy, measuring the cg position with every person and marking the average.

Small update from today, rods finished:

Cockpit finished!

Today we have just finished all the "hardware" part of the project, 2 photos: