My Motion Simulator Project

Today I thought I would actually share some of the things I want the machine to do… (bear in mind I also want to make this as inexpensive as possible) so some things might have to wait….dammit!. 

I have been looking into 3D printing and all the new technology around that and I think that definitely may be an option once I get this to a build stage to keep my costs down.

So some of the things I want it to do for both flying and driving is the following

1. Be able to use existing Controllers/wheels etc

2. Have  a 30-40 degree pitch and roll

3. Have a real Yaw “sideways shove feeling” not just a rotation on the spot

4. Feel every bump and acceleration and deceleration. this one may be built in the seat I think

5. Take up a very small foot print in the house and potential fold away when not in use.

Let me know what you guys have as ideas to see in the final build… I have a short 2 min survey to help us with that and of course you can always list what you want in the forums.

Cheers and back to work

Dave

Ok guys,

so I have been mentally trying to picture what I want this machine to do, and with my semi final concept design (see here) I thought I would give sketch up a go, just so I can visualise the axis etc and see if my ideas would work in the real world.

I thought i had it and then half asleep the other night I realised the yaw was not going to work in the rotation axis so back to the drawing board. I am always running my mind through the machine on how it should work so hopefully it will come together soon. I want this sucker to pitch and roll at least 30-45 degrees!!

Stay Tuned

Hey Guys,

So here we are at the start of this mission to create the a really good motion simulator for flying and driving. After I searched the internet looking for motion simulators to buy I was pretty disappointed with whats out there. There are the basic ones like the joyrider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mObUQ66PIQM and then there are really big powerfull ones that take up a whole room, with a price point to match, some are like $25,000!!!… sp maybe Im just a bit to early in the market place, to have what I would like and that is a motion simulator that is plug and play, works with flying and driving games, takes up no more room than a office chair when stored and costs less than $2k. So I thought I would try and make my own.

For Inspiration I found this one http://6dof.my.primusnetz.de of Gago Meisler which is pretty cool. This then lead me to http://www.xsimulator.net which has a great bunch of people making their own projects.

Now I am pretty good at designing things in my head, a lot of thought experiments going on with what I want, but I’m not so good at designing it for the real world.

Here are some early sketches of my designs. Some written on ripped boxes from my night fill job … ha ha inspiration comes at all times apparently..

I know I have far to go and I want it to do lots of things and I now realizse I might need the help of a professional here as I know nothing about building stable mechanical machines or writing software or building electronic circuits… so ill be spending some time with the kind folks over at http://www.xsimulator.net.

See you all soon with more updates

Dave