Mickelmeck's Joyride

Hello

After a few weeks of look around on the site, i decided to be a member
I will post my progress here on my Joyrider project that i hope i can get motorized

So my first problem is the pipe parts, any advice to get the pipe parts
Here in sweden a 2 elbow cost about 3€ /4$

Any good webshop anywhere?

Have you tried looking through your local yellow pages and looking under plumbing supplies? Even contact a few wholesalers, you may get in touch with one that will sell to you wholesale.

Do any of these links to suppliers work?
http://yellowpages.se/indexen.html
http://www.phonebookoftheworld.com/swed ... -pages.asp
:hi:

When i looked on the web ladt night i found a waterpool company that had great prices on the pipes and fittings so insted of pay 450 € i just pay 210 € for all of them

So now i just waiting to get it home so i can start to build the frame
So now i must try to understand the electrics of the wipermotors or the dc motors

What should i have witch of them are the best to use for the motion?

Maby i should tell about my progress.

The frame:

I havent had the luck on my side yet. I found a good site to order my pipes. But it was a long delivery time. When they should ship my pipes the ran over them with a forklift. So now i am delayed a few more days for my building parts.

On the electrical side it slowly has gone forward , i havent maked any electrical things seens high school so i am like a newbe again. But after som studey i begin to remember more and more. First i thinked to use the popou controller. But after som research i decided to make the AVRC & DSMhb controller cards. Now i have ordered almost all parts to it so it's just fore me to sit and wait wait and wait.

These controllers are good http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1393 , several guys including myself use them, one per motor, they will crank up to 30amps peak. I run mine at 22.5amps with cooling on them, they are easy to setup, just 7 wires and a usb cable. There are details of these here on this site.
Cheers, David.

For a while ago i thinked that i need a sport seat in my simulator. I went out on the net and found 2 offshore boat seats in fiber glass. The deal was okey he only needed to send them to me. But now he wont send them to me. So i decided to make my own fiberglass seat instead

Now starts my project for real


3D Model of the seat


106 A4 printed, redy to cut out


One example on the pices


Först pice cuted out and assembled

Now have the pipes arived so i start to build the frame to the joyrider. It is only some small
Things to do now then its finised. It taked me 10 hours to assemble


Alot of pipe fittings


One of the side is finished, maked the first misstake here on the elbow


The STRENGTHENING is ready on the secound pice


The frame is finnished


Begined to make the inner frame


Inner frame is attached on the frame and it can rotate 360 degress

Looking good there, perhaps for a home made seat refer to this thread for ideas and or help viewtopic.php?p=23635#p23635
Cheers, David.

Not the best chsir but it is just a moldframe


Wraped in a dumpsterbag so it is easy to pull it out from the mold frame







The first 3 layers of fiberglass is finished. So now it shall harden and after that i need to make some more layers

looking good there! You are handy chap with the glass

Now it has the project take a big step forward, I have completed the whole frame with the chair.
So now is it only the two wiper motors need to be buyed and attached but the frame is finished

Have begin to look on the fake skin for the seat now. I am not so good to sew but i did my best. And i was really happy with the result

Have get my pcb card now to so maby i yhink you want to see them
here is the project images


Back of the seat


Some fakeskin cuted out to fit the seat


How does this thing work


Ready to sew


Fitting the seat into the frame with bolts


All in place


Last the pcb card but i see som unfinished parts of the card. I have to fix that. But they wasent finnished in the temålate eather. Werry strange but i think i can fix it with my dremmel

Looking good. I will be following your progress closely as it is what I am wanting to build with the exception I will be using it for flight.

Thanks for the great respons this is my test build if this will work a i plan i maby build a 4 dof later. But this is a good simulator to start with. I just waiting on my electrical components now. And i maby will order a pololu motor controllcard. So i can start to runt testing faster

If you have any questions i will be glad to answer them

I thinking that i want to buy a electrical dc motor instead of a wiper motor
Is this motor okey?


Electric Gear Motor 12v Low Speed 50 RPM Gearmotor DC
Rated Voltage:  13.5 VDC
Rated Speed:  50 RPM
Rated Load:  60 Watts
Rated Torque:  11.5 N-m (8.5 ft-lb)
Mounting:  M6 screw holes
Shaft:  10mm shaft with 2 flats where flat to flat is 6.6mm and threaded end to fit a M6 tightening nut.

You already know where i should use them

I have now ordered a miniprojector for my screen setup. After i were lost in the jungle of elctrical devices just i just ran over a perfect match by a coincidence.

It was the 3M MP180 brand new for just 300$, so i think i maked a good deal here because in other webshops in sweden it coast almost 490$ hopfully i will come in my mail today or tomorow

I am thinking on some ideas to make it to my screen but i have to make some testing before i decide witch way i will go. I am not realy shure how to attach it yet. But i have a real crazy idea

Now i got the projector


Here i am projecting on my wall projection distance is 3m almost 10 feet
It is a okey resolution but i will us it on a shorter distance and it wasent completly dark in the room eather. it is just my phones camera that suck donkey balls


And tomorow i will order my electical components for the pcb boards

hey there

i have som bad news and som good news.

the bad news is that i tried to make some weight testing on the joyrider, it was not a bright ide, i almost broke my pipes on the inner frame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wdl6r6J6HE&NR=1
it sounds terribel on the movie

the good news is that i have reinforced with steel pipes on the sides so now i think i can lift a car with it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxrbR6lQ57Y
i just play around in the joyrider

and i have worked on another test project a dome that i can project on
it is not the nicest things i have made but it is just a prototype made from old magazines and tape, i am planing to attach some white textil to project on later.


half of the dome is taped and rolled


it is finnished and moved to the garage


Attached to the frame, the frame is 220x220 cm 89x89 inch. it is just rofly attached now but i will fix this later, tomorrow i will attach some more string so it will be more round in the shape. , now it just look like hell

i didn't think the project should be so big, my girlfriend just go up to flames when she saw it, almost so i had to sleep in the garage this night
maby i will begin to cover it with the textil tomorrow

Today i get a real kick in my ass, when i went out to my garage my dome had colapsed So in my desperation i went to a hardware store and buyed a bunch of electrical plastic pipes. So now it will need a smaller earthquake to destroy my frame   Here is a image and youtube movie on my dome frame version 2   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd0pVJsTunk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Hi After a short break, I will now with some pictures. Has been a bit short on time to the project lately, so it has a little fiddling with the sentence I am building but now they have a prototype that can be improved so here is some progression pictures. However, I am considering to build on the framework and put 12 branches and put the cloth in a different way so you do not get all the wrinkles

Dome


Computer Screen


Dome


Computer Screen


Picture without distortion


Should be added that I did not set any angle, but I have only set up things a bit temporary, so the end result Will be something completely different

Hey
atlast i have a maked a step forward so now i have been makeing my controller cards


Here is the second set of the pcb cards, the first card i hade some problems with so that was a crap


Here i have begined to make it


A almost finished card but i need to go to the local electric parts shop and get some 3pin connectors and a 8 pin conector that broke fore me the hbrigde is almost done. I only ned some bridge wiring to do