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DIY Simulators. Simracing, Flight simulators and more

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Discussion about diy simulator related projects.

Examples are simrigs, OpenFFBoard, OSW, motion systems, button plates, cockpits...

Show and discuss your simulators and peripherals here

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Simpit made from cardboard on a budget mainly used to play Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen and plenty of other Space Pew Pew.

A glorified DIY joystick controller with an LCD ("MFDs") and plenty of RGB.

Project page: https://beko.famkos.net/category/simpit/

Edith says: Worked better but got the url of the attachment and not of the first link in the message ๐Ÿค”

Image by BekoPharm, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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[โ€“] Kootta@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It does !

I do see an image .

[โ€“] CommodoreSixtyFour_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have not played E:D in what feels like an eternity, but this is making me remember the beautiful times I had with it. And the setup really looks awesome!

[โ€“] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@CommodoreSixtyFour_ it does. At night :) There is also video btw.

[โ€“] CommodoreSixtyFour_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I just visited your website. I like it a lot, the articles are really interesting! Was a good read so far. And you know what? We might be living pretty close, I just saw your post about Ludwigsburg. As someone living near Pforzheim I know the place a bit. Also I found an article about Fly Dangerous. And that was really a surprise to me. I know the game because I am an admin on a gamedev discord server called SoloDevelopment and Jukibom (the developer) is there too. What a small world!

[โ€“] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

@CommodoreSixtyFour_ thanks for the flowers :)

Also say hi to @jukibom ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

@CommodoreSixtyFour_ oh btw I'm not sure if this works from Lemmy, not having an account so far, but at least on Mastodon you can read in via ActivityPub too.

Just copy the URL of an article into the search field of Mastodon if you feel like commenting on something.

[โ€“] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

@diysimulators This is work in progress.

It's mobile and can be completely removed because my battlestation is, unlike most gaming rigs, also my workstation and has to move a lot. It's also frequently occupied by my kids who also love clicky buttons and compete with me for stick time :D

[โ€“] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@diysimulators It features:
* DIY headtracker
* DIY button box with LCD display
* DIY status indicators
* Lots of plumbing with Node-Red
* Arduino Mega with a custom Rust daemon for driving the joystick and LEDs
* A custom written ReactJS "App" to drive the "MFDs"
* โ€ฆand a Linux PC to power all the crazy ๐Ÿคช

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Magnificient Simpit.

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