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