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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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Got into flight sims at some point and decided to build a simple button box with the very basics. It's intended mostly for the AV8B harrier, but can be bound to any plane or any sim. Letters are laser engraved on translucent white acrylic that i painted in black beforehand. There are green LEDs behind the panel that backlight the thing. (not bright enough though).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really cool box :)

I made one too but looks less professional. It's called "DCS Ejector" and it contains a large red push button... I'll let you guess what it does. :p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pics or it didn't… eject? :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here it is. It's mounted on an extra https://www.monster.tech/ support I had laying around, I can smash it without looking, something I do quite often when playing DCS as I'm not very... let's say... proficient. ;) Inside it's run by an Arduino Micro. The other buttons I often use for Emergency Jettisons... as you can see there's a "Theme" :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

your MPCDs look great too, did you DIY them or buy them ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I planned to DIY them but ended up with Cubesim ones. Can't complain, they are really good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Touche.

It seems like I can't upload pics though. I'll try from the web.