submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bekopharm@social.tchncs.de to c/diysimulators@discuss.tchncs.de

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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 🤔

Image by BekoPharm, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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[-] Kootta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It does !

I do see an image .

[-] CommodoreSixtyFour_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CommodoreSixtyFour_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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!

[-] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

@CommodoreSixtyFour_ thanks for the flowers :)

Also say hi to @jukibom 😁

[-] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year 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

[-] bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

@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"
* …and a Linux PC to power all the crazy 🤪