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[hubaczdenek]

Greetings to all supporters of simracing..It started innocently with the steering wheel Driving force now has already built alu rig and I would love to move .. Meanwhile I want to use Arduino, motomonster or ibt2 and wiper motors ... greets Loskrtkos

[kotysky]

Hello, how are you doing!
I have a 3DOF simulator with sim-tools,but I want to test Xsim.
I hope A GOOD change!

See ya!!

[JJKoty]

Hi guys!

I am from Spain -Canary Islands, I want to test Xsim .

Ciao

[micka]

Hello,

I am a teacher and I want to do a simulator with my students to work on the sensor, the energy chain, the programming and many other things. Thank you for this forum and this website !!

Goodbye

[Gusjotechsim]

Hello Everyone!!
I'm new and still doing some researches to find the best option for my budget to start my project.
Thanks all to keep this website running, I hope to find my answers and have a great time.

[vanyost]

Hi,
i just want to say hello.
I'm from Bulgaria and want to test xSim.

regards,
Vanyo

[Hendrik]

Hi, I have underscore character in my password ("_") and I cannot log into Motion Extractor. ¿How can I change my password? I cannot find how to do it.
Thanks!

[Joao]

ola a todos

[HoerFuchS]

Hi at All

[Gazz]

erm... hello.

I'm Gazz, currently residing near Scarborough... a north yorkshire seaside town on the east coast of England.

Back in about 2011 i discovered the bus simulator Omsi.. which is a German bus simulator... where the aim is the opposite of racing sims.

You have to drive safely and courteously, keeping to the timetable (you have every excuse to be late, no excuse to be early!) and basically maneuvering a 15 ton, 18 meter (60 foot) long bus around a busy city.

i especially love it because i grew up in Germany (dad was in RAF, so from age 5 to 13 we were stationed out there... JHQ Rheindahlen, then Krefeld)

And also i am not really into racing sims / games, i was already into train simulators (railworks. trainsim 20xx)

Anyway, i began collecting the cab parts from a MAN NG272 bus, the dashboard first, i re-wired that so all the switches worked as inputs to Omsi, and the gauges and lights worked from outputs from Omsi.. which thankfully was written to allow data to be sent out of the sim easily...

I use an ultimarc U-Hid for inputs, and an arduino mega, with my own transistor shield to handle the 24 volts to the lights and gauges.

I also got a ticket machine, which i made my own Berlin style buttons for on my hackspaces laser cutter, that runs an arduino for the display, and a couple of KADE boards for button inputs.. as i have them as joystick buttons, and have 36 buttons.
Also got a coin changer unit, this still works with money, i fitter microswitches to the tabs that move out to dispense the money, and again a KADE board to send them to the computer.

The steering wheel and pedals, atm i use a force GT, but this is only 900 degrees rotation.. yep that's fine for race cars, but a bus has a 3.5 turn lock to lock / 1260 degree steering wheel rotation.

This is the bit i want to fix up now, i need a much stronger motor to get realistic force feedback as you'd get from a big bus bumping kerbs... and knocking over traffic lights on tight turns
But i also want to try and get 1:1 turn ratio with the simulator bus's steering,

I thought i could put the rotary encoder on a set of gears, so the encoder turns 2.5 turns whilst the wheel turns 3.5, but i'd rather build an entire new DIY force feedback system where i can set the wheel rotation to what i want... is that even possible??

i'd link to me youtube page of my work so far. but as a new user that looks like a spam post, so cant