9/8/2023 0 Comments Diy flight sim cockpit![]() ![]() **Pancake**: you are looking at a plane that you are flying. Construction is mostly wood, with DIY universal joint made of 4 pillow block bearings repurposed office chair. Custom 3D-printed 6-axis Boeing style Throttle Quadrant with Thrust Reversers, TO/GA and A/T disconnect buttons and Trim Wheel. Custom 3D-printed VR Switch and Gear box Custom 3D-printed VR dual encoder control box Custom-built hall sensor pendular Yoke, convertible to a 3D-printed joystick DIY vibration transducers (buttkickers) connected to SimShaker for Aviators + Sound Module Arduino Uno R3 with customized SMC3 firmware I added all the controls that was feasible to train my muscle memory for using while wearing the HMD.Īfter the first version was fully working, I kept adding controls to it, to make is a full VR cockpit, not just the motion rig. I engineered, 3D-printed, built and programmed a bunch of castom-designed devices: large-throw Pendular Yoke that converts to a large-throw Joystick / Cyclic controller, 6 Dual Encoder and 8-button VR Control Box, Switch Box with Gear lever, 8-axis Throttle Quadrant with thrust reversers and trim wheel, HOTAS Throttle that converts to a heli Collective along with another switchbox, DIY vibration transducer system (buttkickers) In recent months I have followed up upgrading, adding features, and building new devices to my motion rig, making it a full-blown Motion VR Cockpit. ![]() I can never go back from VR+motion for flight simulation now, that’s official! The level of realism and immersion is like going from pancake to VR again. This is what I wanted, the project is so worth a few days’ work invested in it and more. **OH MY GOD!!! This is what VR is meant to be! I can never go back now.** Similar to switching to VR, this is another moment of When I finished the initial tuning and tried it in VR on my HP Reverb G2 for the first time, I was speechless. It's literally about 10% of what you would pay for an off-the-shelf comparable system, and I don't believe there is one that can be customized quite this way. Research followed, parts were ordered, and soon I started building. Then I learned that people are building those rigs themselves. I had an old post about the first version, but this one deserves its own.Ī frief history: I became interested in adding some motion to VR, but I quickly learned that commercially available motion rigs are very expensive, and there is no motion compensation solution for WMR OpenXR (Reverb G2) yet, rendering some solutions unsuitable. Some of you may know me from the 4 Canadian airports I made, but now I want to share a latest iteration of my Home-built Motion VR Cockpit - a whole new immersion level for MSFS on a $430 budget. If you are looking into building a similar rig - feel free to use my designs as a starting point. Update: all design files, Blender design files, 3D-print STL files, build photos and part lists for my Motion VR Cockpit and all controllers are now available for FREE DOWNLOAD (optional donation) on my website. ![]()
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