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Just posted somewhere else on the forum and it made me wonder about how many people have unrealised ideas that they should perhaps share.
I remember seeing a video from @museumsteve with a bicycle cable clutch/shifter mod that he was working on that forms part of the inspiration for this thread.
Maybe input could move an idea forward for that person or another, or explain that it's just not gonna work. Win/win really.
What I wrote:
"Before I maxed out on my motion sim rig, my cogs where grinding about reverse wiring motion for use with sim wheels. That paved the way for pondering the dual use of sim wheels, as sim handlebars.
The original idea was to use three mini actuators and a slide-able front ball joint/pivot point to move the wheel deck in relation to what the body would feel. Basically instead of the seat being moved to the right for lateral g-force simulation, the wheel deck would rotate slightly to the left. Under braking the wheel would move closer, and further away on acceleration. Bumps and dips in the road would be simulated with a rotational rise or fall of the wheel deck. Again, opposite direction to what a seat would do. So: rotation left/right, movement forward/backward, rotation up/down. All the action would take place between two plates: one attached to the wheel, and underneath, one attached to whatever the wheel is normally attached to.
Extending from this I thought about the possibility of modding a motorcycle "rim" for the Fanatec CS base and having an option to mount the base say 70-90 degrees upwards. The deck would then convert to being able to rotate side to side, move up and down, and rotate forwards and backwards. Trouble is, side to side feed-in (as opposed to feedback) would be difficult or impossible to do. Actuator would have to be able to be increasingly stiff as speed is gained, but still able to respond to input and have potential to "give". I suppose a separate potentiometer could read the movement at least."
I remember seeing a video from @museumsteve with a bicycle cable clutch/shifter mod that he was working on that forms part of the inspiration for this thread.
Maybe input could move an idea forward for that person or another, or explain that it's just not gonna work. Win/win really.
What I wrote:
"Before I maxed out on my motion sim rig, my cogs where grinding about reverse wiring motion for use with sim wheels. That paved the way for pondering the dual use of sim wheels, as sim handlebars.
The original idea was to use three mini actuators and a slide-able front ball joint/pivot point to move the wheel deck in relation to what the body would feel. Basically instead of the seat being moved to the right for lateral g-force simulation, the wheel deck would rotate slightly to the left. Under braking the wheel would move closer, and further away on acceleration. Bumps and dips in the road would be simulated with a rotational rise or fall of the wheel deck. Again, opposite direction to what a seat would do. So: rotation left/right, movement forward/backward, rotation up/down. All the action would take place between two plates: one attached to the wheel, and underneath, one attached to whatever the wheel is normally attached to.
Extending from this I thought about the possibility of modding a motorcycle "rim" for the Fanatec CS base and having an option to mount the base say 70-90 degrees upwards. The deck would then convert to being able to rotate side to side, move up and down, and rotate forwards and backwards. Trouble is, side to side feed-in (as opposed to feedback) would be difficult or impossible to do. Actuator would have to be able to be increasingly stiff as speed is gained, but still able to respond to input and have potential to "give". I suppose a separate potentiometer could read the movement at least."
