Home Made Rudder System

[Mr_Burns]

I just got a Wathog so thought I would have a go at making some pedals:

 

It based on a piece of chipboard I had lying around and some structural (or non structural) pine.

 

This is the underside, 2 lengths of pine either side of the chipboard with a hole drilled through the size of a skate bearing:

 

 

Thats just some old core from a MDF thing I though i would use as a washer, should do much more than stop the bearing falling through the Chipboard.

 

This is the spindle, you can see the core and bolts above and 4 bearings:

 

 

They sit through this square block of pine which I also cored our so the heel bar can move through it:

 

 

Its hard to see but the heel bar just moves through and the toe bars is screwed to it.

 

 

This is then the pivots on the heel and toe, just a couple of skate bearings.

 

 

Created a pot with an arm to move it:

 

 

All sub-assemblies painted and read:

 

 

And a couple of the finished article:

 

 

 

Now can anyone work out why I cant finish it?

 

 

 

Because GP Wiz doesnt do axis with a pot and I should have know because I think Agrasy told me this a year ago!

 

[Ktulu2]

Take an arduino (I ordered a bunch for 3CAD each not long ago... DIRT CHEAP, can't say about the quality though, didnt get them yet : http://fr.aliexpress.com/?spm=2114.06010108.1000002.1.VESxPK )

 

 

 

Once you have an arduino just upload one of the many codes that render a given board into an independant joystick controller. Note that some of these codes might require a specific board, so watch out for that.

[Brewnix]

Hello Mr Burns nice pedals. Are you trying to use the gp40 wiz board's axis for the pedals? the axis on that board is not for regular pots axis. Its more of a on-off axis like old style arcade joystick.

 

Never mind I just read the spoiler tag at bottom of post. Maybe you can try promicro chip with MMjoy2 that is a really good program to use and the promicro chips are under $20 or less on ebay!

 

This board is one I am using you don't have to buy from Sparkfun just a reference!

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pro-micro--fio-v3-hookup-guide/hardware-overview-pro-micro

And this thread is good for info

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3899105/1

Edited June 13, 2016 by Brewnix

[Mr_Burns]

Cheers guys, I am baffled why a GPWIZ cant do that but hey ho.

 

I actually replaced my very ageing X52 with the Hog so im going to rewire the board inside for an number of things, the throttle will be a collective and if we move house this year like planned, an F-18 / Typhoon / F-35 hybrid bitch is my plan! Got to be touchscreen as there are too many nre aircraft coming out.

[Sokol1_br]

Easty to solve, get a Arduino PRO Micro (~5$ in Ebay -19$ on Sparkfun), write MMJOY2 firmware, easy to do, and you can control potentiometers, HALL sensor @ 10 bits, GMR sensors in digital BUS @ 14 bits, encoder, buttons.

 

All this configurable, want only one axis for rudder, just set this. ;)

 

Add that you have more than one option for auto-calibration, possibility to set response curves, invert axis direct in hardware parameters. In short a flexible and powerful option than boards done for arcade control. :)

 

Latter want add "toe brakes"? Reset the parameters - through a Windows program - increasing axis number.

Edited June 13, 2016 by Sokol1_br

[agrasyuk]

Cheers guys, I am baffled why a GPWIZ cant do tha seest but hey ho.

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Simple, gpwiz40 doesn't have true analog axis. What they have is 4 button inputs that are grouped and passed as joystick to the OS. Think of old arcade joystick to move pacman or street fighter Ryu around, there is no need for 12bit precision sensors there.

 

Use either bodnar board (easy PnP but expensive) or as was mentioned above arduino with mmjoy, will require more work