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OH love you man for such a news.

I understand what you mean but you can turn the rudders fully when brakes are held down without any issue. The reason of the long hinge was to do some experiments for maximum turn angle and you can see different holes due to this. Anyhow I don't need that much angle now after using hall sensors. Extra turn angle was also not comfortable for feet so I added a screw to limit the angle of brakes. I will post some new images later

Well when you test those chinesse grease then let us know. So many other can use it

What about candle wax. I was searching for that white grease on throttle but didn't find it here. You need a syringe, candle wax and a pot. Then melt candle wax in a pot using stove. Melt it till it completely transform to liquid. Don't boil it as the hot wax will melt your plastic syringe. Fill syringe from melted candle wax and quickly spray on your stick. Do it on both sides I mean from bottom of the stick(below the metal ring) and from the spring side. Don't worry as you spray candle wax if will freeze. Don't need to clean spring side. Believe me it worked perfectly. I used my stick for years without waxing again.

Thank you guys. I have uploaded a short video.

I have same question

I think you can use Pjoy to simulate your mouse and then use it in DCS world

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I have created rudder pedals and want to share with community. My name is Qamar Abbas and I am from Pakistan. By profession I am a software engineer, but I have some love for electronics. I am using Saitek x52-Pro for die hard flight sim hobby. In DCS I fly more or less choppers. I was curious how choppers will feel with actual rudder pedals. I googled different pedals but due to limited stock and cost of the different pedals is beyond my reach. when you add shipping cost for Pakistan the price goes insane. OK enough talking Updated mechanical Parts Material I R&D on different DIY rudder pedals and decided to start with simple design and made a rough design in blender get all the dimensions of different parts and made all the parts from wood. With my initial design I used bearings only on the main legs after some usage I added bearings in foot base hinges. Main Legs Pulley rotating potentiometer 2 main leg support springs which is normal centering mechanism not perfect but it works Brake pots 2 foot pedal springs Main leg stopping wood block Arduino Electronics Well for me electronics is a bit easier than mechanical part. I used Arduino UNO and uploaded Big Joystick firmware to convert Arduino to HID joystick. The firmware support 8 axis and 40 buttons. Below are parts I used in different phases. Version 1 (used about week or two) Above picture depicts first version 1 Arduino UNO R3 3 50k 270 degree rotating potentiometer with very low quality as I didn't find any good pots here on local shop Revision 1 (Used about a month) I found good quality 10k linear sliding potentiometer. I used it for the rudder axis. 10K Sliding Potentiometer. Hand is attached to pot and Main leg Hall sensor that is used for revision 2. This solution was not good because the response was not linear rather tapper. 10 x 10mm Rare Earth Neodymium Magnets Revision 2 I was not happy with the brakes precision. One of the reason was I used 270 degree pots and the foot axis can't be rotated to 270 degrees. Due to this majority of the resolution of the brake axis is wasted which makes the axis very noisy and jerky. I didn't find limited rotating capable pot on local shops. To overcome this issue I R&D on hall sensors. I ordered 5 pieces lot of A1324LUA-T from Aliexpress. Why I chose these hall sensors? because one of the Person used in his DIY rudder pedals, according to him these are very sensitive linear sensors but those were previous version and company stop producing those and replaced with A1324LUA-T. I also added ball bearing on feet base leg 5 A1324LUA-T hall sensors from here 20pcs N50 Strong Small Block Cube 10mm x 10mm x 10mm Rare Earth Neodymium Magnet from here 8 bearings used for foot base hinges Hall sensor with Rare Earth Neodymium Magnets. In the center you will see to wood blocks that I used to protect from accidently touching feets. ADS 1115 chip The center block is no more used. I will remove it in future Bearings that I used for feet hinges Bolts are used to control the main leg travel length. Same thing I done for feet but not shown in picture. It makes things a lot different. It is no more jerky Revision 3 (Above image has the R3 changes) At that time I have grip on various things like Arduino and different chips and sensors. One of the limitation of the Arduino is it has 10bit ADC (Analog to digital converters). 10bit gives you 1023 resolution which is not bad but I want more precision. Well I contacted my friend Google and found some ADC 16 bit (Analog to digital converters). I came across a really nice chip ADS 1115 It has 4 channels means you can use 4 axis. I also make changes in mechanical parts. I put a wood block with two bolts to control main leg travel. Round 3 ;) 1) 1 16 Bit I2C ADS1115 Module ADC 4 channel with Pro Gain Amplifier for Arduino http://www.aliexpress.com/item/J34-Free-Shipping-16-Bit-I2C-ADS1115-Module-ADC-4-channel-with-Pro-Gain-Amplifier-for/32564528015.html 2) Wood block added to control main leg travel. Well after round 3 the things are going very nicely. I get 15bit resolution on single ended using ADS1115. If you want 16 bit then you need differential mode of ADS1115 chip and you will be limited to two axis. I used 15bit as it give me 32768 resolution which is more than enough and which is more than MFG crosswind. My Experience When I used rudder pedals for the first time the experience was odd, one of the reason I was used to twisted rudders, 2nd I for the first time know the fact that when you push left rudder the heli/aircraft will turn to left while I was expecting it to turn right. I thought that it will be like motorcycle but it is opposite in air vehicles. Anyhow with the time it becomes more fun and I was getting used to it. It is pleasure to fly with actual rudder pedals more immersive. With the revision 3 the precision is really good and hall sensor are perfect no noise no lag very precise. One of the things I learned building my own pedals is it gives you confidence for future projects. I am now able to develop home cockpit and I can easily develop a simple joystick or wheel. I don't have tools to create precise parts but enough to start a small project. Time and Cost Well DIY rudders are cheap in terms of cost but it will eat a lot of your Weekends. If you get decent rudder pedals for 100-150usd on your local shops then DIY rudder pedals are not worth the time it takes to build. The whole thing cost less than 70usd with hall sensor and 15 bit resolutions. Arduino UNO R3 $8 from local shop You can get it for 2.5usd on Aliexpress but it takes time to ship) 5 pieces lot hall sensors $6.5 20 pieces lot 10mm X 10mm magnets for $14 ADS 1115 $2.90 Wood, bearings, Bolts, spring etc $20 And finally efforts and time $200 My future plans I am planning to paint it and your suggestion is most welcome. If I get enough motivation I will spend time on mechanical. I will try to replace wood with Aluminum or something similar. Limitations The response time is 30 to 45ms, which you can blame Arduino as It is at max 16Mhz speed. There is 1 ms delay to read a single axis. Feel free if you want to create one of those and need my help :thumbup:. Some development Images. I will post a video later Thank You Excuse my english skills :( Update #1 I have added screws for pedals to limit the turn angle Added two wood blocks to stop rudder axis, Which makes pedals to be used in driving games. I tried in American truck simulator

The devs don't need to search for technical documentations and different blocks. Just read this thread they will find everything here :). That is why f-16 is much popular baby.

The love for Mi-8 is going crazy. Thank you very much

Nice to see such features

Nice beautiful personalities fly beautiful fighters. I would not bother which Block. Any Block will work for me but that thing should be F-16

This thread is dedicated to mvsgas. I have love affair with f-16 but the love of mvsgas is extrem

+1 for a hard laugh

I haven't seen any replay by dev

I would suggest this mod should be merged with the actual ED build. That would be awesome

Amazing video. My love for f-16 is going insane day by day +1

The waiting stuff is harder start biting fingers that is the only solution :p

Cobra put war helmet as we are bombarding him hard :)

OK got it you changed saturation

What special in these images?

Really it doesn't support 6dof? Then what is the point of VR

Good Idea. I would like ED should look at this feature

Good to hear that. Things are running smoothly