MTFDarkEagle's "pit"

[MTFDarkEagle]

UPDATE!

 

At the moment I'm sitting on a (well spotted by several of you guys!! :D) fairly cheap Ikea chair. The upside: it's cheap and reasonably comfortable. The downside: it moves all over the place.

 

So, currently I'm planning to build a platform to mount a car seat on (which can move backwards and forwards on slides), which I can somehow secure to my shelf-sort-of-system which has PC in it, and current HOTAS mounted to it.

[MTFDarkEagle]

UPDATE2!

 

Car seat in possession!

 

It's a seat from a volvo v50. It looks similar to this, though in a slightly different colour:

 

 

I'll try and get a picture up tomorrow.

[Deadman]

don't forget the cup holder :)

[hog_driver111th]

That'd be a real nice seat to put a box around in the shape of an ejection seat. Definitely more comfortable. Wish there was a junkyard near me. Closest one is around 150 miles away, and the normal person isn't allowed to buy parts like I used to do back home stateside.

[MTFDarkEagle]

don't forget the cup holder :)

:D

 

That'd be a real nice seat to put a box around in the shape of an ejection seat. Definitely more comfortable. Wish there was a junkyard near me. Closest one is around 150 miles away, and the normal person isn't allowed to buy parts like I used to do back home stateside.

I got this on a Dutch ebay kind of website (you know, people advertise second hand stuff) for... FREE!!! It only cost me the petrol for a total of 60 minutes driving :)

 

The ejection seat is indeed a very nice idea to do in the future!

 

Here are some scribbles.. You cannot imagine the amount of scribbles in my head :D:joystick:

 

 

 

[PeterP]

:D

Here are some scribbles.. You cannot imagine the amount of scribbles in my head :D:joystick:

Ha!

I love this kind of planning - something I do all day at work ( :P ).

 

But you know that you install with this seat the Business class into the warthog ?!

 

- normally a common office-car is more comfortable than the real thing! :D

[Succellus]

MTF my "PIT" Has the same configuration of your scribble.

Its also done on a car seat (althought a cheap ugly one)

 

Take a look of how i mounted the seat here:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=80137&highlight=usmc

The black rails are the seat rails.

[MTFDarkEagle]

I've been working on a wooden chassis for the seat today (configuration isn't on one of the scribbled pages up here). Due to the car/seat's design, all mounting points of the seat's slides are not exactly parallel. So I've been constructing a wooden chassis to counter it. However: it listens very tightly, because if you somewhat twist the slides they run very rough.

 

I'll get some pictures up soon, my phone is busy charging right now :)

[MTFDarkEagle]

Here's a picture of the seat on a workmate (working on it with dad :) )

 

 

And here the as of yet unfinished chassis to get the bottom of the seat level so I can continue building everything else :0

 

[MTFDarkEagle]

Another small update.

 

Here you can see a small scribble from the design, the wheels on the right and tools and a BIG mess :).

 

 

Here the progress as for the seat chassis. First stage is getting the bottom of the seat level, which has now been done. The large wooden bord is there to get the correct height.

 

 

After that is done I'll move on to the bottom of that "box" (the box to get the correct height), and get a sturdy frame on the inside allong the edges to which I can bolt the wheels. And after that I'm going to cut a planck of wood which sits on the floor and extends to the wall and maybe secure it to the wall "somehow". But that remains to be seen. Maybe that isn't even necessary.

 

On that wooden bord I'm going to make two small rails with the width of the wheels on the seatchassis. When that's done I'm going to fabricate a way of keeping the seat locked in the back position. The aim of the rail is to slide the seat back into flying position. Given the "cockpit" is in my bedroom I would like to have the maximum amount of space possible when I'm not flying. So, I'm going to fabricate such a contraption that I can slide the seat back, secure it to the floorboard, and I'm in flying position.

 

That's all for now, next update probably thursday.

[hog_driver111th]

Hey MTF, I just realized that you live 5 hours from me. Not much for in the states (when I lived in Spokane, WA... I used to drive to Seattle every other month. 5 hour drive. or, from my folks to my brother, NYC-DC).

[MTFDarkEagle]

Gentleman. Very good news, it's finished!!!

 

Here you can see the completed cockpit. Now it's in it's operational position.

 

And here you can see it sliden forwards to allow acces to the space behind the seat.

 

Here you can see the "garden fence"-lock which holds the seat in place.

 

Because the lever to operate the slides was not present on the seat, I had to fashion my own. I used copper piping and bends.

 

The WH Throttle mounting.

 

 

A bit more detail on the WH mounting.

 

 

 

Notice the Saitek Combat Rudder pedals. These are mounted directly to the wooden board on which the seat rolls.

 

I had to make a small modification to the aluminium mount (which holds the stick and 2nd monitor: namely the monitor had to be raised somewhat.

 

If you have any questions, please ask. I hope this helps someone to some inspiration!

 

Cheers!

[cichlidfan]

Truly excellent.:thumbup:

 

Also was nice to see that your dad is williing to assist in the insanity!:D

[Pilotasso]

It looks good but wont you apply some varnish or paint to it? It will stick all sorts of dirt if you dont.

[nerves]

great work...!

[Cali]

Nice job!

[MTFDarkEagle]

Time for a small update :D

 

Going to make a switch panel simulating the AHCP (in large terms) with a couple of extra switches and pots.

 

On order is on Leo Bodnar BU0836 board, and the following switches:

 

1x http://nl.mouser.com/ProductDetail/NKK-Switches/S21AL-RO/?qs=LihysANmw45MURNJleGpcA%3d%3d

(single throw locking toggle)

 

4x http://nl.mouser.com/ProductDetail/CK-Components/7103K2ZQE/?qs=qUgWstB0J2NDA0dYKGYSIg%3d%3d

(double throw locking toggle)

 

4x http://www.conrad.nl/ce/nl/product/701163/Tuimelschakelaar-TA203G1-zw-hefboom

 

3x http://www.conrad.nl/ce/nl/product/701162/Tuimelschakelaar-TA202G1-zw-hefboom

 

2x http://www.conrad.nl/ce/nl/product/701160/Tuimelschakelaar-TA202F1

 

1x http://www.conrad.nl/ce/nl/product/701161/Tuimelschakelaar-TA203F1

 

1x coincentric (derp what a word) rotary encoder from leo bodnar

 

and a shitload of diodes :D

[PeterP]

oh-oh! ;)

 

Seems another-one slipped into the rabbit hole ....:D

 

 

 

 

Take care ! and beware of the Mad-Hatter !

 

:)

Edited June 18, 2012 by PeterP

[cichlidfan]

Luckily there the rest of folks in there already will cushion his landing.

 

Have fun Lukas!:thumbup:

[PeterP]

Lukas, just in case you you find some time before the parts arrive and the wiring part thing will start to suck out your live time... (this can be a real Time-vampire and you shouldn't under-estimate this...;))

 

Have a look at Autohotkey - IMHO : it's the best documented and most capable device scripting software on this planet .

 

It always severed me well when I thought there is no help any-more...:)

 

 

OT and football related:

 

What gets a Dutchman when he didn't pass his driving licence the second time ?

 

A yellow registration-plate and a trailer hitch ! :D :megalol::megalol:

 

Edited June 18, 2012 by PeterP

[hassata]

Looking excellent.

[MTFDarkEagle]

Seems another-one slipped into the rabbit hole ....:D

Haha yes quite so :D It's so easily slipped into you know...

 

Luckily there the rest of folks in there already will cushion his landing.

 

Have fun Lukas!:thumbup:

 

:ufo:

 

Not exactly a cushion.. But.. :P

Lukas, just in case you you find some time before the parts arrive and the wiring part thing will start to suck out your live time... (this can be a real Time-vampire and you shouldn't under-estimate this...;))

 

Have a look at Autohotkey - IMHO : it's the best documented and most capable device scripting software on this planet .

 

It always severed me well when I thought there is no help any-more...:)

 

 

OT and football related:

 

What gets a Dutchman when he didn't pass his driving licence the second time ?

 

A yellow registration-plate and a trailer hitch ! :D :megalol::megalol:

 

Yes will have a look at autohotkey! Thanks for the advice. I have heard of it, but not used it yet. I'm also considering xpadder, but I'm not convinced yet.

 

Re football: :D Haha :megalol:

 

Looking excellent.

 

:thumbup:

 

Will keep you guys updated ;)

[PeterP]

addition : be aware that Autohotkey doesn't comes with a fancy guy - and is "editor only" - but once you understand the basics of DX controller ID's and the rudimentary language to and differences of "send-event"/"play-event" and also "send-DX-raw" you will be surprised what can be done with it.

- so you can program a rotary that has only one 1-0 to a device that puts out as much commands as you want when you turn it...

 

And you can also bypass problems X-padder has to send rawDX commands that are not always recognized by DCS , because the timing wasn't right when the script gets more complex...

 

-- so Autohotkey is actually a own rabbit hole for its own...take care! :)

Edited June 18, 2012 by PeterP

[MTFDarkEagle]

Haha no worries, I'm very VERY deep into C programming for school at the moment, so I'm not scared for a little bit of programming ;) Will take a look later. Thanks again for the suggestion. Alternative is I suppose "Joytokey". I've been using that a little bit for my FSX flying.

[PeterP]

I see- :)

so I hope you can soon answer my questions I still have .. but I use 30 lines of ( unnecessary) code to bypass them !:D

 

- whatever- I watch your progress with great interest, and I also plan to go the next step after I have polished my controller setup .

Edited June 18, 2012 by PeterP