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Hi,

Perpetual tinkerer and total newbie here, based in Sydney.

Searching for DIY motion simulators brought me here.

I'm interested in a DIY system for DCS, I have electronics experience and a small wood/metal workshop (table saw, bandsaw, mill & lathe). I have built a few hobby CNC's with steppers.

I'm thinking AC servos and I'm trying to figure out why all the 3DOF builds seem to use six motors, couldn't three motors be used?

With aircraft, I should say I don't fully understand the differences between the DOF's, roll, pitch & yaw seem to be classed as 6DOF?

I have this idea of using a curved rack & pinion for roll and pitch (to get more extreme turn angles) but none of the builds I've seen use this.

Cheers
Richard

Hello!

A dude with way too many hobbies compared to the time I have for them all (I don't have time for them all).

Love cars, have a project car of my own (89' 240sx), love working on it even if it hates me sometimes, and I love driving it. I got my first sim wheel a couple Christmases ago from my parents and it was a logitech g29, and I've finally decided I'm into this enough to justify selling and upgrading. On my journey, I discovered simulated motion quickly, but i disregarded it because of how expensive prebuilt ones were and I had never had experience with software to hardware development/communication, such as any kind of microcontroller. I've been into coding for awhile, and decided just a few days ago to really jump into this head first because I figured that it wouldn't hurt to try, seeing as though I am extremely interested in this side of simulation driving. Long story short, I put together a quick prototype with an Arduino Uno I was gifted awhile back, I ordered some jumper cables and 2 tiny servos from amazon to throw it together and to my utter disbelief, it actually worked, only after a few hours of troubleshooting some coding errors i made due to it being my first time using serial communication.

Now that my prototype is complete and working, I'm ready to build the real thing. I've began 3d modeling so I can have a better idea for my plans, however I am stuck on the motor part. I am creating a similar design to D Max's setup, 2 motors in the back controlling arms that move the back of my rig while the front sits on a pivot point. I know he used windshield wiper motors but I was really hoping to use servos. Do you think there is any chance I could use a 75kg-100kg rated rc hobby servo, or is that completely out of the question due to lack of power. I'm pretty lost and this is my next step, I just need to know if it's feasible to go with high torque servos, or if I should just give that idea up and go with motors with a potentiometer, creating a faux servo.

- Trent Richardson, Kansas!

Welcome Richard,

haha, me too.

As noorbeast said, I'd also suggest to start your own thread even if you don't know what to do, yet. We can answer your questions there and they will be also visible to anybody searching for the same answers. Here in the new member thread they will be lost in the noise, soon.

I had the (nearly) same idea but have abandonned it, soon.

I've planned to use two linear servo axes to get heave and roll and a cable winch to rotate the rig in the pitch axis. However, we finally did it this way instead: Example for 3DOF rig.

Hello, I´m Miguel, I live in Girona (Spain), I want to learn to create my own 3D platform, I hope I'm in the right place, if anyone speaks Spanish, please (I'm looking for friends xD)

Thanks @noorbeast!

Hello my name is Wasa and I'm from Spain, for a few years I have a simulator that I currently use an arduino to control a BMW instrument panel, I have us electric pistons of the SMC brand and I would like to make me a 3dof but I don't know where to start,

thank you and forgive my english

Hello,
For me it started with an introductory helicopter flight (fairly short - 20min.) I received as a birthday gift. I was always fascinated with helicopter flying and would love to get my pilot's license as well. Unfortunately that dream was quickly smashed as I found out the requirements (initial training and ongoing) are so expensive that I could not afford this just as a hobby.
As the next closest thing I am now trying to build a flight-simulator and came across this amazing forum with all kinds of information in regards to simulators.

A little bit about myself:
I live in Orlando, Florida (yes, the one where the hurricane Milton just came through 2 days ago - we were lucky and did not have any major damage to our property) and the recent "new member" Trent said it very fitting to myself as well: "A dude with way too many hobbies compared to the time I have for them all".
That's how I feel ... and unfortunately I see myself too often start some project only to abandon it at some point as other (more important) things come along.

Anyways, I will try my best to finish at least some version of a simulator.
With past jobs I have worked in electronic circuit board design and controller programming, but now I only do this as a hobby. My workshop at home includes many tools, including a lathe and milling machine which I use to build metal parts for various projects.

So many questions about the design of a simulator (power, size of the physical parts and the electronic interface to the gaming computer come to mind), but I am sure there is plenty information in this forum here for all the different aspects.

Thanks to the person who created this website and the many supporters sharing their ideas!!
Martin

CSTDarknight - Location: Alberta, Canada.
Spent the last year (part time weekends) creating a 2DOF motion chair. After many attempts and tearing it apart and tinkering with it I finally have it working so happy. I got it configured in Sim Tools 3 on No Limits 2 (roller coaster game) and WOW in VR it made my wife sick and I can say it is very cool to ride.

I agree but my wife hates coasters so when she confirmed it was realistic I knew it was working well. Other family members loved it and had no issues ;-)

Hi all, I am I am going to build 2dof simulator. I have expertise in microcontrollers and some electronics.
I built a prusa clone some years ago but a simulator involves high duty mechanics.

Currently I am struggling to connect an arm to a tapered shaft from a wiper motor but I do not see an easy way to do it.

Hi,
I'm Russell from New Zealand - have been lurking on these forums for some time with a view to building a simple 2DOF platform or chair mover.
Have just completed my chair mover 'Red Chair' - it seems to work well with my FS2020/2024 flight programs, looking to post a PDF file showing the build shortly.
This is my first post here, I have quite a few members to thank for their posted guides.
Russell
(RustyK)

Hey, I’m a Pre-Engineering and Physics Instructor at a technical HS in Western, Maine, USA. I have some students interested in building a flight simulator and I am trying to learn more about how to make one with them. I’d like to make a simple 2DOF sim to start, or even some models using small servos that move a model plane based on game engine physics -or using sketchy physics. Of course my students want to go 6 DOF right out of the gate! I look forward to learning more. Great site! - Jake