Showroom Simulated Wind Arduino with SimTools

@Ministrinity What code is @RacingMat giving out , I hope its not the old dash app as this is not used any more or needed the new app that can be found in the beta section is the only one supported here now.
Please download the app from there and keep questions about it in the beta section please do not post it in the public section yet, wont be too long I hope.
Start a post in the beta section and I can set you through this quite quickly.

No, of course, it's not.
He's talking about the 4DOF Arduino code here http://www.xsimulator.net/community/marketplace/arduino-code-4dof-and-1-pin-direction-hbridge.68/
including potentially wind motor control if it becomes available to a serial COM port with Game Dash App release.

My humble appoligize @RacingMat. Sorry taken the wrong way.
To me this is not needed to drive a 12v fan. This can be easily achieved by simply driving a mosfet with pwm from the UNO no need for complicated pid control.
As per pic I borrowed from somewhere.

Instead of a light we can use a fan.
Now this makes the code a lot simpler to be done.
@Ministrinity start a thread in the beta area and I will explain all.

Edit :Would also recommend a NDRIVE to be used, nice and simple all contained on pcb for you,
www.freetronics.com/ndrive.

Yes, I'll go create a thread to get this started now. Thanks @eaorobbie and @RacingMat for your future help on this project.

Btw, that Ndrive seems pretty useful. Will it actually prevent us from burning the arduino? I've burnt about 5 arduinos till now because my power supply is 12v 10A.
One of those delta fans take 4.8A!

Yes you drive the gate with the pwn pin and will handle 60v to 20amps.
Your circuit from the other tutorial will work but yes no protection from the 12v.
As the same an quivilant mosfet and resistor will do the same as the NDrive, but for $7 its no worth trying to make one. I originally used it to drive 12v ShiftLight.

Ministrinity i love your sim! Where you from and how much did you pay to get this done! This is my dream simulator!
Can you tell me what is specs on your simulator?

Thank You

Albertus Geyser

I think its still up for sale mate, you can buy ya dream sim.

the actuators only were for sale, not the whole sim, the dbox actuators got sold a while ago.

Albertus, it's a combination of many sim products. I hate to total up the amount I spent on this rig. It's scarily high! The basic front chassis end is an obutto r3volution. The dbox actuators are on an 8020 platform. The seat is a simxperience GS-4 seats which gives pressure based motion cues for sustained g-forces. Yeah the dbox actuators are sold to a good mate of mine. I'm upgrading to 4 actuators soon and rebuilding the whole thing with 8020 aluminium profile.


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Hello everyone!

I'am very very eager to make a wind sim add on to my rig and would like to usa my floor fan sinc it's provides a lot of air move and accelerates and deccalerates very quick.

Is this tread still alive ?

I still wonder if you got any final guide how to set this up ?

Best regards, Andreas

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Sort of he got it all to work, But limited as many games don't support the GameDash option for SimTools yet.

my suggestion is :
- buy a dedicated arduino
- assembly a circuit like http://www.electroschematics.com/9540/arduino-fan-speed-controlled-temperature
- write a code a find already posted code for gamedash to convert car speed to fan velocity

A quick example

int Speed;
int MaxSpeed = 350;
int MinPWM = 20;
int FanSpeed = 0;
int bufferArray[6];
void setup(){

pinMode(3,OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop(){
//****************************** READ DATA FROM SERIAL ******************************
DriveFan();
if (Serial.available() >= 4) { //if 4 bits available in the Serial buffer...

int i;
for (i=0; i<4; i=i+1) { // read and label each byte.
bufferArray = Serial.read();
Serial.flush();
}

if (bufferArray[0] == 'S'){
unsigned int SpeedSmTools = ((bufferArray[1]-48)*100) + ((bufferArray[2]-48)*10) + bufferArray[3]-48;
Serial.print("You have recieved the Speed of: ");
Serial.println(SpeedSmTools);
FanSpeed = map(SpeedSmTools, 0, MaxSpeed, MinPWM, 255);
Serial.print("You have set the Fan Speed to: ");
Serial.println(FanSpeed);
}
}
}
void DriveFan() {
analogWrite(3,FanSpeed);
}

Could easily drive a mosfet , my self I tested with a NDrive from Freetronics , saved on wiring and creating a circuit.

ok, is the best choice.