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Okay, I wrote a short FAQ in which I included some URLs as examples: "What kind of simulator for me?"

Hello, thank you for answering. I would like to make a driving simulator with wheels and pedals on gimbal with 2DOF action by cylinder (my first idea) and arduino.
What is your recommendation? for a budget around 2000 euro. I would like to use Grid 2. Any suggestion for others game?

Thank you for URL's examples.

I'm new just join from jamaica

@cucu: hello Jamaica! welcome

What is cylinder? Do you mean pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders?

Yes, pneumatic cylinders but I think would be a better idea to use DC motors for motion. At this moment I have an issue to communicate with Arduino from SimTools via Serial. For start I just want to see that the signals are sent from simtools on serial port, but when I'm playing or simulate from output testing nothing comes on Serial.

Pneumatic cylinders are noisy (air exhaust and compressor) and rather slow...

What arduino code do you use?
Maybe you could try the simple code I use and the interface presets I uploaded.

Buenos días
mi nombre es Richard salamanca, soy de Colombia, soy estudiante de ingeniería electrónica para la universidad estoy trabajando en un proyecto de un simulador a escala con servomotores, yo estoy haciendo toda la parte electrónica y comunicación, estaba trabado con la parte de programar un juego para enviar las señales a mi tarjeta hasta que encontré este sitio y vi que muchos juegos exportan los datos pero se necesita el plugin, me interesa descargar el pluging de roller coaster pero dice que no esta disponible, podrían ayudarme para descargarlo.
gracias

@axel1903 Please use English my friend you will gain a better response from members.

Translated post , by Google,
"good morning
my name is Richard Salamanca, I am from Colombia, I am student of electronic engineering college'm working on a project a simulator to scale servo, I'm doing all the electronics and communication, was stuck with part of programming a game to send signals to my card until I found this site and saw that many games but the exported data is needed plugin, I'm interested to download the pluging roller coaster but says not available, could help me to download it.
thanks"

Good morning Richard and firstly Welcome.
You need to earn some coins or pay for a download package to gain access to our plugins, but beware they only work for SimTools.
If you can start a separate post , showing us what you have done, Im sure a couple of members will lend their expertise to help you drive the model with SimTools with data coming from No Limits Roller Coaster.

Here is a working example of mine with all code openly provided and works with all the games we support,
http://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/rc-model-for-motion-simulation.4600/

Welcome to create your own, glad to help in anyway, that what we all pride our selfs here in doing.

@alexandru bejan

Don't be discourged in using them mate, they will work , Air tech has come along way and can be controlled with servo card.
@hugso shows a fine example of this. So does another showing his sim on another website http://lifebeam.net/flightsim/
I actually wrote the Ard code so that he may use simtools in his school project, check his video its quiet radical.

Welcome and don't put the blickers on , your idea is not a bad one.

Hi everyone! Just to give you a brief background about myself, I've been a racing enthusiast since I first played NFS Most Wanted. I got my first wheel, shifter, and pedal set in the guise of a G25 last 2009. Hardly used it due to not having a proper rig to attach it on. Got my proper racing rig, the Obutto Evolution and TM R500RS last year in hopes of joining the Nissan GT Academy, but ultimately failed... and now I'm back in good form to target iRacing's top racing seat. BUT to do that I need to first create my sim rig, and that's how I got into this website. Seriously considered the Obutto Revolution, but heck, from no rig to static rig, the progressions gotta be motion rig, right? motiondave/bsft has been my guide, got to see his posts at ISRTV which led me here. After a week, I realized I have to become a member as I document my journey.

Anyway, long story short, I'm back to serious racing. Well, sim racing that is. And I'm building my motion rig with your help. Please do guide me. Thank you!

Sure thing @JL Rivera , start a new thread here http://www.xsimulator.net/community/forums/diy-motion-simulator-projects.22/ and we can guide you no problems.

This is a good question. I built my sim to improve my real track driving and always wondered if a motion sim really helped times in a virtual only environment. It certainly helped me drive a sim as I came from a real car, but for someone brought up on Virtual only I don't know if they would be any faster. So what does everyone think? Eg. My son can whip me on a static sim, but I am faster on a motion sim, does this hold true for anyone else out there?

Without highjacking this thread, I think we can have a discussion about this on a offtopic thread.

True, happy to move it to another thread.

@SeatTime http://www.xsimulator.net/community...-sim-driving-is-either-better-or-harder.5545/ here we go!

Hi Kirk!

what's new?
did you figured out how to start your sim? wood or PVC could be easier than metal welding!
Mat

been there done that with PVC

I've been concentrating on the electrical aspect, last night, I just finished modifying a pair of HP DPS-600pb power supplies for 24V, and have them attached to my sabortooth 2x25. I have a kangaroo / delink2, and some wheel chair motors to try my luck with, along with the gratuitous BI 6127V1A180L.5FS hall effect pots.

I'm seriously leaning towards PVC even if only for prototyping. I do have access to a welder, BUT, I've never welded anything metal in my life (well, on purpose...). My wife's turned a blind eye to my activities so far, but firing up a welder might just bring her wrath.

I do have a pair of questions. A number of videos I've seen, people are using what appear to be pillow block bearings at the pivot points. It's a bit difficult to judge dimensions from the videos, but are they like 1/2" bore (ie. is 1/2" sufficient)? And, how does one keep the bearing from sliding off, can you use threaded rod / washer / bolt, or is there some method I'm just not seeing?

I am not averse to push rod / universal joint, it's just that I haven't figured out yet how to attach both sides of the universal joints. The ones I've seen on e-bay seem to require at least some welding. (ie. it seems that only one side accepts bolts, and to buy two universal joints and make one from the halves so that bolt holes are on both sides requires a special universal joint press tool that is insanely expensive).

Best start a new thread in http://www.xsimulator.net/community/forums/diy-motion-simulator-projects.22/ and we can talk about it there.