Custom Motion Simulator project

Hi everyone !

I'm from France so sorry for my bad English

I actually build a " weird" motion simulator , with an arduino interface, and two gearmotor ( from a child car ).

Here is the specs :

Arduino uno interface
Sabertooth 2x32
2 x gearmotor 12v
10k bourns pots
12 v battery
Fanatec gt3 rs wheel


As you can see on the pictures, i test a different way to make movement, i've many things to improve, but for this time i like it ! i just test it with live for speed, and it's great, i go to buy a kart seat to be able to deepen my tests.

I will post a video as soon as possible.

Denis

Hi, Thanks, i have actually only surge and heave force, but it's already very immersive. I try to make some video.

This is such a unique build, I love it. But, where do you sit/mount a seat to the base?

You could probably also get some yaw effects by driving the motors in opposite directions and rotating the whole rig, but I'm not sure how it would handle mixing yaw+surge+heave forces all at once.

I think i'm going to put a platform to fix the seat, i just order for a karting seat, so i hope i receveid it soonly.

I try to mix sway and surge, but it's difficult to adjust them ... so at this time i try to have the best feeling with the surge axis, for me it's the most important force for driving.

Later I will think about adding other axes, maybe like a seat mover for sway and pitch.

Thanks noorbeast ! I look at this

Some upgrades :

- Adding a karting seat
- Moving the motor forward ( rotations are much faster )

Now i can use surge, sway and heave ! I will do some tests to adjust them as well as possible, but it's long ... and i have just the demo of live for speed to do this I'm going to look to buy a license.

Next upgrade will be the screen ... i look for a bigger.

Oh great i will watch this ! thanks.

I just do some test, it works great with yaw strength but the problem is the return to the center ...

Any possibility to stop the return to the center of the yaw strength ?

That will be great if once the rotation is complete, it remains in position and does not automatically return to the center.

Denis

The two motors rotate in opposite directions for rotation, i use actually sway force to do this.

I just make a rapid video, sorry for the bad quality, there is a discrepancy between the sound and the video when uploading to youtube, and the video is a bit faster compared to reality
I don't know why ... suddenly the movements do not stick with the sound ^^



I made quick settings, I leave an overview of the settings on simtools.

The only problem is the return to the center during the rotations, I don't know if it is possible to prevent this.

Thanks noorbeast, i will try with traction loss and i tell you what it gives