First thank you all for the nice words
to Ghost: sorry no build-guide inside the Archive
only HighRes Pics but they
may give you a little help for planing your cockpit.
i did build my new Cockpit in summerholiday and it is not so hard to do,
and the good thing is, i have done all of the work in my garden 8)with
beautiful weather.You need only a table-circular-saw and a long electrocable.
the hardest thing of all :-[will be to tell your girlfriend or wife that you
need 5 days of summerholiday to build a cockpit.
1.day: buy a cheap PC-Table 40€ (mine has wheels so i can put it easy everywhere
i want,its good for housecleaning and you can roll it to have a free way to your
connections on the backside of your PC
make a plan of your cockpit
what it should have and how it should look? touchpat,joystick ect...
i have my old touchpad so i must only integrate it.
measure what size it should have to fit with your PC-Table
make a little drawing with your Measurements.
go an buy some wood-panels,woodglue and sandpaper and paintingspray 25-30€
2.day: by good weather take the table-circular-saw outside the house,
you can enjoy the sun and the house stays clean.
and your wife is happy
cutting all parts that you have drawing.
this will take some time
make a break, drink a little beer, smoke a cigarette and think
about the next steps.
3.day glue all parts and perhaps make last corrections
you can do this outside the house by beautiful weather.
rest of the day you can relax in the sun with a beer and a cigarette
and think about the next step.
4.day: making holes for cables buttons rotating pots ect....
finetuning with sandpaper by machine or with hand
you can make this outside,so the house stays clean and you can enjoy
the good weather.
painting the cockpit.
5.day: make the electrical work, cables on buttons rotating pots
making a layout with photoshop for the touchpad
ready!
For building a touchpad you can find some tuts with google i think
when i build my touchpad there where no usb-controller available.
today with usb-conroller available its a easy job to build a tochpad
you only need to connect your buttons and pots with cables to your
usb-conroller.
look here by LeOnes post by Electrics:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,25156.0.html i hope this is giving you a little ambition to do your project
to gianlucabagatti: you have right with the real feeling of my old flightstick and rudderpedals,
the arm movements and feelings a real stick deserves.
but now im older and want it more comfortable.
second reason was to switch in less than a minute from a flight cockpit to my raceingwheel
I can take out the cockpit forward and can put in my raceingwheel and gearshifter
that are mounted on the PC-Table-Panel.
that is also the reason to use my raceingpedals as rudderpedals
to Wildchild: You can use your logitech pedals for rudder pedals when you put a hook by combined Pedals
in the logitechsoftware of your wheel
so you can use the acceleration and break pedal as rudder
to LeOne: I like the pic of your throttle device ???
that really inspired me to build me one
greetings Germy!
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