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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...

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Primary Buffer Panel (f2.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Primary Buffer Panel

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”

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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