News of Motion simulator designs

I'm interested in building a Stewart Platform for a flight simulator. I don't know if my whole simulator will fit in my room which has a ceiling height of 2.8 meters. I don't yet know how tall my cockpit is going to be, I'm approximating it to be about 2m tall, so I'm just doing a back of a napkin estimate at this stage. Any chance of fitting in a SP in the remaining 80cm ...

New and looking for design and plans to build a 6dof platform for flight

Hi,
Has anybody done a continuous rotation pot so that it would not be damaged by a gone crazy drive motor ?

For Prepar3D flight simulator
I want to do 3 dof motion platform.
1400 mm * 1700 mm platform / 300 kg total load
Which is more economical, hydrolic, pnomatic or electricity?
Who can help me in system design?
Thanks
Irfan Dolek
Istanbul/Turkey

Hello to everyone,

before posting this post, I searched and read countless pages from members. I am a lot informed about simulators by your way....but of course I have to improve myself with your helps.

I am owning a little PS3 game center and I want to put 1 or 2 motion simulator for PC.
My prior project is to transform a real sports car to a simulator as on this link: ...

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to calculate the acceleration duration for a certain heave displacement in order to generation 0.5G (4.905 m/s²) of accelearation.

I'm using CKAS U5 3DOF Motion Syteme http://www.ckas.com.au/3dof_systems_64.html to double check my calculations and cannot seem to be able to reproduce their results which are:

displacement =0.140 m
velocity=0.280 m/s
acceleration=4.905 m/s²

I know that:

The Time t taken for an object to fall distance d is t=SQRT(2d/g)
Instantaneous ...

Hello guys,

In designing a 6dof motion base, a question raise up: how to calculate dynamic performance and DOF excursion, I believe they are related to motor sizing and actuator placement, but is there any tools to do this calculation?

I am building a 6DOF simulator, and considering the options regarding the screen.
I am wondering if it is important that the screen be a part of the seat platform, and therefore moving with the seat, or if the screen can be fixed on the ground, independent from the simulator itself.

Reason I ask is because i see many simulators that have 2 or 3 LCD screens attached to the motion platform, and it seems ...

6dof motion platform ‘lite’

Hello everyone.
I am looking into building a 6dof motion platform for use with VR headset (DK2 on the way) for racing and flying simulations, (and hopefully Star Citizen), and would like to hear your thoughts on 6dof simulator with levers.

The simulator needs to be able to lift about 100Kg of weight, and I’d like to have 7-10 cm of movement.
I have been looking for existing 6dof concepts, and ...

Well after quite a bit of reading on here I've started my own platform motion sim rig.

I have decided to try and emulate Floriske's GT playseat. I will build using the same general layout for base and platform but intend to make a few slight mods. I will directly gear the feedback via some sort of clutch mech. I'm gonna use gas struts half loaded at a centralised platform rest position, secured centrally at ...