propeler Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 Yes, it should work. Simply connect encoder to M0 encoder input 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtux Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 (edited) Hi everybody, I began a design of a printable ffb joy using skateboard bearings, but I stopped as soon I saw this thread !!! Lot of ideas are present, thanks to internet, thanks to you guys for sharing. some questions : @propeler: I like your cardan design but : Why did you put bearing by two each time since there is no screw to make constraint between them ? Are the bearings inside the main cross mandatory ? could you explain why ? When do you thing putting your code on a git ? @RealDCSpilot: Interesting fork, did you publish the stick output in S (snake) STL file somewhere ? @walmis:Very Intereting design too, do you have a git for your project, CAD and soft ? @ all: What do you think about using Gimbal pancake from T-Motor ? What do you think about using chinese low cost CNC closed loop servo(I mean true brushless servo, not hybrid stepper) with their driver box ? thanks in advance, JP Edited June 13, 2021 by flyingtux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealDCSpilot Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 17 hours ago, flyingtux said: did you publish the stick output in S (snake) STL file somewhere ? Do you mean the extension? The S-shape 200mm stick extension comes from Virpil. i9 13900K @5.5GHz, Z790 Gigabyte Aorus Master, RTX4090 Waterforce, 64 GB DDR5 @5600, Pico 4, HOTAS & Rudder: all Virpil with Rhino FFB base made by VPforce, DCS: all modules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealDCSpilot Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 18 hours ago, flyingtux said: Are the bearings inside the main cross mandatory ? could you explain why ? This is to cope with the gimbal lock problem. i9 13900K @5.5GHz, Z790 Gigabyte Aorus Master, RTX4090 Waterforce, 64 GB DDR5 @5600, Pico 4, HOTAS & Rudder: all Virpil with Rhino FFB base made by VPforce, DCS: all modules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtux Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, RealDCSpilot said: This is to cope with the gimbal lock problem. Thanks RealDCSPilot, Hum, gimbal lock, or a workaround to compensate bad orthogonality or alignement of axis since it’s printed parts? 8 hours ago, RealDCSpilot said: Do you mean the extension? The S-shape 200mm stick extension comes from Virpil. Ah ok fine, I did'nt have this joystick Thanks Edited June 14, 2021 by flyingtux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealDCSpilot Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) 16 hours ago, flyingtux said: Hum, gimbal lock, or a workaround to compensate bad orthogonality or alignement of axis since it’s printed parts? Gimbal lock (maybe it's the wrong term?). Even the original gimbal of the G940 has an extra joint for limited z-axis movement on the stick's rod: Edited June 15, 2021 by RealDCSpilot i9 13900K @5.5GHz, Z790 Gigabyte Aorus Master, RTX4090 Waterforce, 64 GB DDR5 @5600, Pico 4, HOTAS & Rudder: all Virpil with Rhino FFB base made by VPforce, DCS: all modules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtux Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 4 hours ago, RealDCSpilot said: Gimbal lock (maybe it's the wrong term?). Even the original gimbal of the G940 has an extra joint for limited z-axis movement on the stick's rod: Very interesting @RealDCSpilot, I have one too, I did'nt notice it before. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtux Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) On 1/15/2021 at 6:04 PM, walmis said: Hello guys, some updates on my FFB journey. I've been busy testing and finalizing my FOC motor driver, specialized for FFB application. It's usable on any 3 phase PMSM motor, but I've specifically designed it for 57BLF0x series NEMA case style brushless motors. It fits on the motor end and is attached to to motor case directly, with some thermal paste, mosfets have a good thermal path to the motor casing. These motors have quite a bit of cogging out of the box, but when this cogging torque is mapped and cancelled out by software, It's almost non-existent, as if the shaft spins only on bearings, though some faint "digital" noise is felt due to encoder noise and pwm quantization. I've attached a motor cogging map, on the Y axis it shows the required holding current, and on the X axis the encoder position. Encoder is AS5600 which is a 12bit magnetic absolute angle encoder. On the project I use FDMS8018 mosfets (which can handle quite a lot of current when heatsinked) coupled with very fast mosfet drivers provides a quite high power drive and precise torque over the whole revolution. The hardware project is hosted here: https://github.com/walmis/BLDC-Servo At the current state there's very little documentation, but I will start working on it as things progress. Today I've ordered revision 2 of this board from jlcpcb to get rid of some nasty issues of my prototype board. 5 boards cost me 30 euros with SMT assembly and shipping excluding MCU, mosfets, current amplifiers, gate drivers, current shunts and a few small components. That should add around 5-15 euros per board, depending on supplier. And two of these motors will go into the final FFB joystick assembly Excellent !!! @walmis, did you or do you think commit the FOC source code for the stm32 somewhere ? Edited June 16, 2021 by flyingtux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtux Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) Hi all, hi @propeler Do you know what type of steel should I use for the propeler design. @propeler, could you indicate us your provider/manufacturer in poland, for steel and platic parts ? I tried with LaserHub for the metal part and the cost in basic inox 304L is arround 240€ (less expessive than weerg but much than the @propeler provider) thanks in advance, Edited June 17, 2021 by flyingtux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walmis Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) On 6/15/2021 at 3:28 PM, flyingtux said: @walmis, did you or do you think commit the FOC source code for the stm32 somewhere ? I'm planning to, I just need to finalize it further, but the firmware is in workable condition. Work on this project is a bit slow at the moment. But it'll get there I'm also building propeler's gimbal version, I just made a laser cut 8mm plywood box variant, which worked reasonable well and it's cheap. It cost me around 30Eur for cutting and materials. I incorporated 6374 size motors with my FOC controller. https://www.banggood.com/18-29V-170KV-2900kw-Electric-Skateboard-Longboard-High-Efficience-Brushless-DC-Motor-p-1240567.html?cur_warehouse=CN&rmmds=search Here are some assembly photos: I'll make sure to make some photos of the real thing, when I get back to the lab. Edited June 18, 2021 by walmis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtux Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) Thanks for your answers, photos and sharing your work at all @walmis . I like your patched brushless servo. You made an opensource alternative to clearpath servos some questions ;-): For the FOC, did you fork an existing brushless controler projet like vedder.se, or did you start from scratch ? (it's not an easy project at all) Good idea for the cheaper wood casing. Do you think that the motors will be cooled correctly with wood (even if FOC is efficient by nature)? I noticed you reduced the belt's width. I was thinking to do the same to reduce the need of "static tension" between pulley and pinion (PLA/PTEG home printed pulley). Which width do you think to use ? For the main board, is it better to make an adapter with an existing FFB Joystick or using full opensource FFB board and code ? (I have 2 Sidewinder2 and one g940 I could use for that project) ? ie do you think opensource FFB firmware regarding the SideWinder 2 or g940 firmware ? What do you think to use for your project ? Regards, JP Edited June 18, 2021 by flyingtux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walmis Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 On 6/18/2021 at 7:06 PM, flyingtux said: For the FOC, did you fork an existing brushless controler projet like vedder.se, or did you start from scratch ? (it's not an easy project at all) I did start from scratch, actually. Hardware part is 100% my own. Firmware is also built from scratch, I only borrowed some ideas / math from projects such as ODrive and vesc On 6/18/2021 at 7:06 PM, flyingtux said: Good idea for the cheaper wood casing. Do you think that the motors will be cooled correctly with wood (even if FOC is efficient by nature)? For high workloads, I think, some forced air cooling might be necessary. Currently motors are not attached so that they be able to dissipate heat into the case. On 6/18/2021 at 7:06 PM, flyingtux said: I noticed you reduced the belt's width. I was thinking to do the same to reduce the need of "static tension" between pulley and pinion (PLA/PTEG home printed pulley). Which width do you think to use ? I kinda ordered 10mm width by default, should be more than enough On 6/18/2021 at 7:06 PM, flyingtux said: For the main board, is it better to make an adapter with an existing FFB Joystick or using full opensource FFB board and code ? (I have 2 Sidewinder2 and one g940 I could use for that project) ? ie do you think opensource FFB firmware regarding the SideWinder 2 or g940 firmware ? What do you think to use for your project ? Definitely open source when it becomes available I have also a FFB USB firmware in the works for the STM32F103C8 based on libopencm3 library. @propeler also has one in the works. Stay tuned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vogel25 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 On 6/18/2021 at 6:06 PM, flyingtux said: Thanks for your answers, photos and sharing your work at all @walmis . I like your patched brushless servo. You made an opensource alternative to clearpath servos some questions ;-): For the FOC, did you fork an existing brushless controler projet like vedder.se, or did you start from scratch ? (it's not an easy project at all) Good idea for the cheaper wood casing. Do you think that the motors will be cooled correctly with wood (even if FOC is efficient by nature)? I noticed you reduced the belt's width. I was thinking to do the same to reduce the need of "static tension" between pulley and pinion (PLA/PTEG home printed pulley). Which width do you think to use ? For the main board, is it better to make an adapter with an existing FFB Joystick or using full opensource FFB board and code ? (I have 2 Sidewinder2 and one g940 I could use for that project) ? ie do you think opensource FFB firmware regarding the SideWinder 2 or g940 firmware ? What do you think to use for your project ? Regards, JP For open source firmware there is this https://github.com/jmriego/Fino. it's fully working on Arduino Leonardo and for the motor drivers you can do whatever you want. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtux Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 On 6/20/2021 at 8:00 PM, vogel25 said: For open source firmware there is this https://github.com/jmriego/Fino. it's fully working on Arduino Leonardo and for the motor drivers you can do whatever you want. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roller25 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Anybody have a completed build yet that they can show? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Phantom_Mark Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 5 hours ago, Roller25 said: Anybody have a completed build yet that they can show? The hope of something here is the only reason I haven't dropped the hammer on the flawed Brunner option 1 minute ago, propeler said: Is this the final iteration or you still fiddling with it mate ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
propeler Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 15 minutes ago, Phantom_Mark said: Is this the final iteration or you still fiddling with it mate ? Let's call it stable release iteration. It works and can be used as functional device. But I already started working on next iteration of it based on much more powerful howerboard motors. But it will be different device and not a simply improvement of existing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom_Mark Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Is this something you will be prepared to sell as a complete device eventually maybe ? Yearning to replace my old MSFFB2 Hybrid with something more proper ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtux Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 1 hour ago, propeler said: @propeler, Hi, nice work, could you share with us your EU provider for metal and plastic parts ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roller25 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 1 hour ago, propeler said: Looks great! Do you have any video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
propeler Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 8 hours ago, Phantom_Mark said: Is this something you will be prepared to sell as a complete device eventually maybe ? There is good chance for it 8 hours ago, flyingtux said: could you share with us your EU provider for metal and plastic parts ? I ordered part from local polish companies. https://ajmaker.pl/produkt/ciecie-laserem/ for metal parts and https://rapidcrafting.com/en/ for 3d prints. Not sure if they are international. 7 hours ago, Roller25 said: Looks great! Do you have any video? Not much yet. But I will make. What do you whant to see in it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roller25 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 1 hour ago, propeler said: There is good chance for it I ordered part from local polish companies. https://ajmaker.pl/produkt/ciecie-laserem/ for metal parts and https://rapidcrafting.com/en/ for 3d prints. Not sure if they are international. Not much yet. But I will make. What do you whant to see in it? I would be interested mostly interested in how much force the stick can provide.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
propeler Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 2.8 kg measured at point marked on picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roller25 Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 (edited) Hmmm.. it would be interesting to know how much more force that is compared to a modded MSFFB2. Has anybody measured the force of a resistor modded MSFFB2 with extension? Edited June 24, 2021 by Roller25 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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