for the last 3 months i had to re-engineer my chairs around a buttkicker LFE and staples office chair, after i found that cheap ebay racing seats were cutting off circulation to my leg.

he is the final result of engineering the chair base.
last thing i need is the oculus rift, and my simpit(s) are complete.





hope to fly with u guys soon

custom CH Products based torque pedals..

Well done, Hannibal. Terrific carpentry skills and really clever resign of the pedals. Very compact build. Only thing missing is a safety harness. I bet the OR v2 can induce some rather lurching sensations. Have fun.

I have been waiting for the flight sim community to start making immersive cockpits that rival racing sim fan cockpits!!!

i hope to be flying more than i am building...

more of my simming chairs..

tactile feeedback via low freq..

just tested my sim chairs with the buttkicker lfe..

VERY IMPRESSED.
wow, taking off, actually feels like taking off.

all i need is a shaker for the pedals and the oculus rift and my configuration is complete

Niiiice!

Also, were those pics taken with a tokina lens by chance...

I like it, nicely done Hannibal!!

I'm planning on ordering DK2 soon. Getting it working with DCS doesn't sound so bad. I suppose for it to work with BMS might be a little more difficult. I might end up having to use TrackIR and the Rift just for visuals in BMS. Hope not.

All that being said, I've reduced myself to just the HOTAS and a G13 while simming. The G13 is mounted directly to the left of my throttle, and I can use it by feel without having to look. I'm trying to pre-train myself for the Rift. The G13 is mainly being used for comms (also for ICP), but I can also use voice commands through Shoot.

Hi hannibal, I've been watching your designs for sometime. I need to make a chair much like you did to use on my desk since I don't have room for a cockpit like I would realy would have wanted. I think your design looks fantastic, hope you don't mind but I thought of copying it's looks for mine. I was in the process of designing something in sketchup but I like yours better, and it will be a lot sturdier too. Anyway just letting you know you have a fan now!

I wouldn't order the DK2. Wait for the consumer version. That said the DK2 is fun to play around with, and great for developer purposes, but its not ready for serious combat flight sim usage.

Normally I would agree with you on waiting, but I've gotten the feeling that the consumer version could be another two years in the waiting.

your welcomed to follow my design, any questions i will try to answer.
if anything i based my design off my engineering and other designs i have come accross... but yes, i was striving for a compact build...

organizing my shaker audio equipment...







my chair in car sim configuration..

also custom modded dayton SA70 amp with DIY heat sink..

the last of my shaker/transducer hardware is now complete.

last item on the list is the oculus rift, and a PC upgrade in 2016.

Nice! Always look forward to seeing your progress Hannibal, looking good.

thank you! i try to share, as others did so hopefully i give other people some ideas. my build of my pits would not be possible with out the web and the forums!

now i have a year and a half to wait till the next pieces of the puzzle comes in.
i am tempted to get a oculus dk2, but i must be patient!

I just replaced the bulb in my HD proj. so I've got another few years of 1080p gaming, next on my list is a new pc.

nice! 2 new PC's are on my list also. but im going to hold out till 2016.
nvidia pascal and intel skylake-e are on my hit list.
these two architechures are supposedly 3-4 times the jump in current gen products- and if so, that is a massive leap.

a tid bit about Skylake (in general)

"Interestingly, Skylake will also support PCIe 4.0 that offers a link bandwidth of 16 GB/s -- double that of PCIe 3.0 and far in excess of the bandwidth required by any existing graphics card. Finally, Skylake incorporates the latest AVX 3.2 instructions and SATA Express functionality which should significantly enhance the transfer speeds of hard drives and SSDs."

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Skylake-Intel-DDR4-PCIe-SATAe,23349.html

Sounds expensive and awesome!

got bored and ordered some stuff from ebay... :/

g27 350mm steering wheel mod inbound..

g27 mod to 350 mm steering wheel went bust. couldnt find a nice enjoy wheel to incorporate into my setup. how ever i did upgrade my springs on my cyclics, from 8.5lbs to 4 lbs, the feeling is quite smooth and remarkable, and still has a the capability to re-center (intended)

i was getting tired of working the cyclic applying about 3-5 lb of force on the stick, now it feels more like half a pound...

not as tight as the HOTAS warthog, but not so loose like the CH fighter stick... resistance is in between the two.
thank you ebay for the springs, because the first time i had to cut my own springs, that was a female dog.

sequential shifters project

soap box racer mode...

sequential shifters completed

checking my setups for egronmics...

I'm curious about your setup for the chairs... why does it seem to be a box-within-a-box? Any chance of more pics or maybe your plans?

ill take some more pics when i finish up my current project.
im trying to invert the G27 pedals, and raise it the pedals higher, i come to find out that im getting nerve pain from the pedals being to low.

my box-withina-a-box was my attempt to make things modular.
the chair revolved around the cyclic, inside the cyclic is a huge pillow block bearing with a centering assembly, i tried to make it as compact as i could, but i grew into a box.

but this "cyclic" box can be removed in place of another box-like-adapter in which i can mount either the G27 wheel or the warthog flight stick.

i have an apt. also my first sim rig was a large platform. it takes an hour to setup, and it was only for flight sims (no driving)

so what ever you see on this thread is version 2 of my sim rig, i try to compact it to the base of the chair, and incorporate attachments so i can have it as either a fighter jet, helicopter or car configurations, in which i can interchange in less than 5 mins.

Thanks!

I got a pair of car seats that I'm currently stumped as to how to make a stand for them so I'd greatly appreciate any ideas. I really like how your stands look and being able to put in a driving setup would be cool! I'm primarily be going for a side-stick setup for my flight simming so having an option to "center-mount" the steering wheel as needed would be good, especially as I bought Project Cars during the winter sale!

awesome! i bought project cars also!!
i had assetto corsa, but i was getting frustrated getting into public servers, and i really wanted to test out my newly hand made sequential shifters..

i bit the bullet and bought project cars cause it was cheap. it was fun being in a driving setup.. but assetto corsa physics feel way better, with project cars a tad bit on the arcadey side.

if your building a homemade car-like driving setup / pit, i would suggest a table-like solution, and not what i have with the post in the middle. my post is sufficient in which i can make it adaptable to my TM warthogs, but it is daymn annoying doing toe in braking, the post gets in the way.

im planning to make inverted pedals. maybe higher and father can alleviate the annoyance of the post in the middle being in the way. which leaves my second suggestion. make sure you the base of pedals compared to the top of the chair is less than 10". if your both your pedals and chair sit on the ground , and the chair is high (such as an office chair), you could be in for carpal tunnel in your legs. your legs so be almost straight ahead. (i am learning this the hard way)

here a recent photos i took including my box-in-a-box. good luck with ur design!

thats it.
no more building.
will start to use my creations once the oculus rift is out.
time to spend time in other things in life.

finally last piece

Very nice build! I'm subscribed.

sim chairs in full effect

Hannibal, any chance to see the 'innards' to your helicopter cyclic? I just bought a Flightlink cyclic, which I'm thinking about returning within the 10 day window just because it doesn't seem to have the resolution required to accurately fly using small inputs. I fly helos at my job, and know for a fact I could hold a stable hover in a real UH-1 if I needed to, but I find the job easier with my G940 than with Flightlink's solution.

After some investigation, I figured out that they use a gear reduction drive from the gimbal to the pot, which increases the control resolution, but upon further inspection only provides about 800 and 1000 data points in the X and Y axes respectively. It's a 12-bit resolution board, so it has up to 4096. I suspect this is why it seems hard to find the 'sweet spot' to hover without any drift.

With Komodo's Rich seemingly down and out right now with personal issues, and no idea whether or not he will return to manufacturing, I'm thinking very seriously about building my own. I'm not a mechanical genius, but I'm good at copying, which is why I wouldn't mind seeing how you tackled this. Your builds look incredible, and if they are as functional as they look, I imagine they are great fun. Thanks for your time!