My first build. Another budget flightsim 2DOF rig.

Another budget flightsim rig build in this thread. I don't think there'll be anything radical or ground-breaking here but hopefully someone might find something interesting.

Since I've never built anything like this before the priority will be to keep the cost right down, at least until there's some sign that it might actually work.

Inspired by rigs from @Ronan Design here and SCK Gaming on Youtube. Thanks to both for sharing their knowledge and experience.

So it's going to be a simple 2DOF job with perhaps a yaw axis added later. Made of wood and looking something like this:

And I've made the base! Timber is all 95x45 or 150x45 on a 4mm plywood tray. The motors are high enough for their levers to rotate continuously without hitting anything so hopefully I won't need safety stop switches. The joint in the middle is a drive shaft from a neighbour's scrap car. It's very greasy, hence the plastic bag.

Here's a proof of concept electronics rig. No point in going on to the expensive stuff if I can't get this to work. Fortunately it actually seems to work. DCS feeding Flypt feeding SMC3 feeding a couple of old RC servos.

https://youtube.com/shorts/_aXbukVyYe0

This a re-post. The previous got deleted for apparently being all in capitals.

These are the motors I'm going to use. They're 24V wheelchair motors that can be found on Amazon or Ali-Express. I've seen them used successfully on other builds. I made some 3D printed hall sensors for them. Don't know how well they're going to work yet but they look kinda funky.