2 DOF platform sim for racing and flight

Thanks @noorbeast

I am considering adding a seat slider for surge using 2 industrial style draw slides. How much travel forward and reverse would be needed to be very effective. Then I will need to work out a way to counter balance if needed. I haven't even got the first stage finished and already looking at expanding.

@noorbeast if I add surge to the seat only instead of building a surge table would that give my sim a more realistic effect for accelerate/braking.
I am also going to add traction loss with the lazy susan idea.

Depends how far you want to go in simulating the forces, as a 2DOF does just fine for small movements, but for extended braking/acceleration etc it is not so straight forward, some have built large surge/sway tables which I tried in a smaller setup initially, but finally went for a 6DOF to give me some other options. As an example have a look at a video below which shows my old rig and @Pit rig. As for my 6DOF first video is it using a mod that Dustin did for me in SimTools V2 to control pitch in a surge sense (also had some sway/roll). This allows very extended acceleration/braking by introducing some surge into the pitch axis. Unfortunately I could not also add any filters with this mod, so the movement is very raw . Next video is using BFF software.


Surge table options:

My old system with 2 DOF seat with traction loss, surge table and a heave mod fitted to the seat itself.



@Pit current system



My current 6DOF



As an better example BFF software which allows a filtered/washout - roll/pitch acceleration output.

short little video of my sim coming alive. I was LFS with my laptop while holding my phone and getting ready to stop it from rolling off the desk. will have better videos over coming days

I think I will hold off on adding a surge table. But I will hopfully sort out the traction loss this weekend. I just need to work out how much travel I need/want. Does yaw axis work with FSX when flying choppers? ( I will look at the thread for FSX as well to see if I can find out).

200-300mm travel- is that each way or total ie. 150mm left and right from centre?

Great project, i like your 3 monitor rig mount
Like to see your finished rig

Cheers i will hopfully be running a full race test within 2 weeks waiting on a couple of deliveries and it should be ready to go with a huge thanks to @noorbeast. I stripped down my old sim (non motion) 4 months ago so i am itching to get back in drivers seat.

I'm doing a bit of research into adding more motors to my sim for traction and surge but I am a little confused as to the Arduino code to use, I have read @RacingMat thread on 4dof but its for 1 pin direction, but at the bottom of his tutorial it has the wiring setup for the Arduino connected to 2 motomonsters and 4 motors, so will this code work for this setup . I over think things a lot and the my head does 360's

Just use another Arduino. Run two motors off each.

thanks That was a thought I had.

I don't understand your worry...
4 DOF is 4 motors
and if you use MotoMonster, you need 2 MM for 4 motors

the code manages the 2 MM which drive the 4 motors: hence the code is fine for your 4 Dof

Hi its been a while since i have been on here but i just recently continued with my sim build and got my self som motors from motion dynamics.

I have wired them up and have plugged in my usb for the arduino and the motors have powered up straight away. Is this right? From what i can remember from setting it up last time is that the motors should only power up when a game starts or when i start testing in sim tools. Any help would be great. The only thing i have changed from last time i tested is the motors.

Thanks

Short video of the traction loss