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Hi everyone,
I'm Pratheek from India. I work as a product/industrial designer professionally. I stumbled upon xsimulator when I was looking around for information about sims and DIY options for that. It was sometime ago that I found out that there was a huge community for DIY sims and that diy sims could be actually built. From then onwards I was in the search for information regarding what could be done to make a racing sim on my own since I cannot afford a good sim and more importantly I wanted to do it on my own.

This is perhaps one of my first time being in a forum/community online, please do excuse me if I make a mistake in the early days.

My idea is to build a small affordable ffb racing sim using arduino leonardo as I'd seen in a few videos. I'd read a few posts on this site too that helped me in the process. As such I wanted to be a part of this community and learn from others, also enlist the help of more experienced members. Hope I could also help others along the process.

Regards,
Pratheek.

Hi! My name is Quang Thuy. I'm Vietnamese, and I don't know anything about programming and control systems. I've been on the forum for over a month. I have read, read a lot of posts on the forum and am working on my own 2 dof project. The main racing game that I play is dirft 2, dirft realy. Thank you very much.

Hi guys.
Welcome from Ireland. Recently retired and during lockdown got back into flight sims. Mainly Dcs and Il2 all in VR. Things have certainly moved on since flying on a 14 inch monitor. I have built a static rig with a few button boxes and rotary encoders. Very proud of my working ejection set handle lol. All using arduino’s. Electronics and coding is all a bit of a mystery to me but your never to old to learn. I thought a good next step would be a g seat using servos and bladders. Have already read up a huge amount of info from the forum so thanks for that. Have ordered a few bits and pieces to start on the proof of concept. Worked my whole life in the aircraft industry and have good practical skills and a good workshop.
Hope I am posting this in the correct place as I have never used a forum before. Thanks guys.

Hello, I have been wanting to do this project for a long time to share with my son.
I am 54 years old and I am a native of Cartagena (Spain), although I live in Mora d'Ebre.
My project is based on another by SCK GAMING, which explains step by step its construction with the necessary materials, based on Arduino and two 24V 250W 75 RPM motors, and that is why in the end I have decided to carry it out since I am quite astute and I am not afraid of new projects.
I want to congratulate you on this wonderful page that attracts all of us who are interested in iracing.

Hello everyone, my name is Javier and I join your group to learn great things, I am currently in a project of a Chinese 3 DOF simulator with a dorna 3 in 1 controller.
I don't have the original program, so I thought about using arduino and simtools, any advice ??

Thanks guys.

Hello guys this my third thread already, shame on me.
My name is Michali but you can call me Mike.
I am almost 40 years old, and live in Germany. Since 2010 I would like to build a motion simulator. So I have opened a new building thread: https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...m-is-comming-true-after-12-years.16778/unread

2010 I have build a sim rig from aluminum prophiles and since than I use it with my good old driving force gt. The only update is, that I have mounted under the simrig wheels to transportating from sleeping room to the living room. But the motion virus infected me again, and cause that I can not get a dedicated home cinema, want to build at least the second dream of my life. A 3dof with traction loss and inverted surge motion simulator.

that’s me.

Hello my name is Fred and I am new on this forum.

i started looking into building a motion simulater years ago beeing active at xsimulator forum. I had fun building electronics, but the project stalled before I managed to get it working. Now I got inspired by several youtube-videos with builders using Arduino and IBT-2 with 12v motors. I want to do it cheap using some vipermotors I purchased at my first try. I also want to build a rig that pivot close to center of gravity, so that I dont need stronger motors than my vipermotors. The old joyrider-rig might be an option.

So that is me and my plan. The rig will be used for some sim-racing, but I also want to have it as an entertainment for som kids using a rollercoaster game or similar .-)

My apologies if my English is not perfect, I am from Norway

Regards Fred

Thankyou for the fast response, I will try to do my homework before asking

Fred

Hi there.
Mike from Canada here.
As life has the way of getting away on us at times, it’s finally time for me to start doing some of the things I love and enjoy. I grew up with big dreams of being involved in Motorsports and fabrication side of things in the sports. Well, life happened and living in western Canada, there was so little chance to get involved in my passions. Never imagined how real simulators, and availability to us family folk, would ever become the reality of enjoying these sports via racing SIM’s. I recently just got an MSI Aegis Gaming PC and a Logitech wheel and pedal package to get started. In searching for practical racing sims here in Canada, which is difficult and unfortunately overpriced, I came across this site, it’s fantastic I hope to learn a tremendous amount and build my own motion sim in the near future. Thanks for having me in the club

Hello group,
I just decided that I want to build a racing sim. I think it's gonna be a 2 doa, or a 3 or heck maybe even a 4 lol. I am looking at builds, finding out the costs, and seeing what build is right for me. I want it to be universal, flight, racing and who knows what else. Thanks for all you guys post. Can't wait to start. O I am located in central California near Bakersfield, if anyone local hit me up.

Hey guys!
Fred here (aka ricthot... don't ask! ).

I've been drawn to the simulation world for so long that I prefer not thinking about when it started exactly, it makes me feel too old ... vague memories of FA18 Interceptor on my Amiga 500 comes to mind as I'm typing this .

I have mostly been into military flying simulation on and off and still remember the first time I saw a motion platform used with MS Flight Simulator at a local game convention... I was in awe!
Fast track to today... I started sim raing a few months ago, mostly on Assetto Cora and F1 2020 / F1 2021 and can't get enough of it.

I'm in a place in my life now where I have more time for myself, and in a better financial position to start thinking about a project I never imagined would be accessible... Building a sim racing rig with motion capabilities.

I'm not looking for a super sophisticated setup. I literally watched hundred of videos, and read countless topics here on the forum so have a pretty good idea of where I want to go. I'd like it to be as silent as possible, not take too much space and pretty much just give some additional feedback as I'm racing virtually.

I don't know if I can qualify this as a project yet, as I'm still at the reading stage and trying to collect as much data as I can, but I'm pretty motivated to move forward. If you notice my avatar... this is what I see right now when thinking about this motion hobby... a long winding road hopefully going somewhere.

So what did I achieve so far? Well, as sasid above, beside watching hours of videos and reading hundreds of posts, (oh, and finally posting something here on the forum), I have dug out the old box of electronics from the storage room, plugged in the Arduino, a couple servos and a potentiometer, and started gettin my brain back in geeky stuff . My progress so far? LOL, not much... I have successfully ran a pre-made sketch that moves a servo back and forth 180 degress... ok I know I know, a monkey could do that, but the idea was to get back into the right mindset and make sure I could still connect 6 wires to an Arduino!!!
Next, I wrote my own mind boggling 20 lines long sketch that control the servo using a potentiometer... wooohooo, that is as close as I got to a motion platofrm so far... twisting that pot back and forth, fast, slow, slow-fast, fast fast, slooooow, and imagining it being a full fledge motion rig.

Baby steps!!! The whole point is that before diving in that deep rabbit hole that seems to be the motion platform hobby, I will build a POC that can run on the corner of my desk. The 3D printer is currently printing a few bits, servo holders, miniature sim racing seat, and the next step of the journey will be to TRY to make this work with an actual game.

I have what to do next, I'll keep on reading. I guess I'm at the point where I must choose a software and try to get that miniature seat moving.

Anyhow, sorry for the long intro post, thanks for reading!

Cheers!

Fred, from Quebec, Canada.