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When I first bought a wheel (Logitech MOMO) several years ago, I just had it attached to my desk and used it for LFS. After my laptop died the wheel disappeared somewhere in a closet. When I moved out of my parents house and into my own apartment it still remained packed in a box because I still didn't had a computer I could use it with. But then I just couldn't stand not being able to race anymore and I bought a PS3 with GT5.
At first I mounted the wheel to a IKEA barstool which was just the right hight to use with the chair I had and hooked it all up to my tv, which is a pretty old Sony Trinitron crt tv. After a while I got tired of setting it all up every time I wanted to play, so I would just pull up the 'barstool wheel mount' to the sofa and used a usb extension cord to reach to the PS3 by the tv.
Since the tv had a pretty poor image quality (it's good for watching tv, but sucks to use for gaming) and a sat pretty far away (2,5~3 meters) I couldn't see much of anything, so it was time to get a new tv! Well, not a new tv since those are pretty expensive so I thought I'd just buy a computer monitor, those are way cheaper than buying a new tv.
After searching online for 3 days I decided on buying a Philips 21,5" lcd monitor with led backlight, it also had intergrated speakers but the main thing was that it had a hdmi port and it's full HD 1080p
oh and it was pretty cheap (and on sale!).
After using the monitor on top of the barstool that had the wheel attached to it and still sitting on the sofa, I was really sick of the whole setup, it just wasn't practical to use and I had wires running trough the livingroom, almost tripped over the hdmi cable and almost pulled the brand new monitor off of the barstool.
I played around with the idea to convert a part of the big closet in the livingroom to become my 'rig'! There were a few shelves I hardly used, some stuff I could easily store on other shelves. The whole closet is made of parts that can easily changed, so that's what I did
I placed a shelf on the correct hight to mount the wheel and put the monitor on, another shelf above it to hold the PS3 and that was pretty much it actually
Had to make a tiny adjustment to a shelf to make it stick out a bit so the position of the wheel compared to the padles fitted my legs comfortly and I was ready to go!
So that's kind my story on how my setup 'evolved' from desk to barstool to 'closet rig'
Ofcourse this topic isn't complete without pictures The aren't really good ones, but do show how I've got it setup
It's close (next to) a window so I can look out and see what's going on outside every now and than and provide light ofcourse, it's also next to a radiator so I won't get cold. I don't have a light near, so it'll get a bit dark in the evening, but that's the way I like it
I hope it wasn't too boring to read And let me know what you think of my 'closet rig'
At first I mounted the wheel to a IKEA barstool which was just the right hight to use with the chair I had and hooked it all up to my tv, which is a pretty old Sony Trinitron crt tv. After a while I got tired of setting it all up every time I wanted to play, so I would just pull up the 'barstool wheel mount' to the sofa and used a usb extension cord to reach to the PS3 by the tv.
Since the tv had a pretty poor image quality (it's good for watching tv, but sucks to use for gaming) and a sat pretty far away (2,5~3 meters) I couldn't see much of anything, so it was time to get a new tv! Well, not a new tv since those are pretty expensive so I thought I'd just buy a computer monitor, those are way cheaper than buying a new tv.
After searching online for 3 days I decided on buying a Philips 21,5" lcd monitor with led backlight, it also had intergrated speakers but the main thing was that it had a hdmi port and it's full HD 1080p
oh and it was pretty cheap (and on sale!). After using the monitor on top of the barstool that had the wheel attached to it and still sitting on the sofa, I was really sick of the whole setup, it just wasn't practical to use and I had wires running trough the livingroom, almost tripped over the hdmi cable and almost pulled the brand new monitor off of the barstool.
I played around with the idea to convert a part of the big closet in the livingroom to become my 'rig'! There were a few shelves I hardly used, some stuff I could easily store on other shelves. The whole closet is made of parts that can easily changed, so that's what I did
I placed a shelf on the correct hight to mount the wheel and put the monitor on, another shelf above it to hold the PS3 and that was pretty much it actually
Had to make a tiny adjustment to a shelf to make it stick out a bit so the position of the wheel compared to the padles fitted my legs comfortly and I was ready to go!So that's kind my story on how my setup 'evolved' from desk to barstool to 'closet rig'
Ofcourse this topic isn't complete without pictures
The aren't really good ones, but do show how I've got it setup I hope it wasn't too boring to read
And let me know what you think of my 'closet rig'
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No problem on using the idea 
so it kinda worked out with the closet 
