Hello friend. Have you ever dreamed of driving the car as we do in the real world? Here I will give you a brief guide to the construction of a steering wheel that has reached not just a steering brake and gas pedal, but a clutch and a gearbox so. It will not cost more than $ 10 if you have the tools more easily available, such as saws, screwdrivers and the like.
It is not only damn cheap, is much like the same games / Racing Wheel that you purchase for $ 100 +. Theonly major difference is that our games / Racing Wheel has is to have no force-feedback mechanism. Not a big problem if you have a very serious player and has enough money to spend on a Logitech G25 or the like. Here are the highlights and features that make the experience / driving game, it has
° Wheel steering with about two full rotations (720 °) in both directions, as in a real car
Separate · Gas, brake and clutch pedal
• A sequential gearbox withTurn
The construction of the steering wheel:
It provides a plastic / PVC pipe 2 inches in diameter (approximately) in length and 80cm (approx). Light a candle and the heat pipe from one end to the other end. During heating, a little 'bend the tube stages, so that when the total length is heated and bent, takes the form of a game / wheel travel, with open ends. Now heat one of the open ends of the tube and push the other side so that the ends overlap and close the tube in a wheel.Let cool. Now wash the tube and then with a towel. Apply super glue to put the ends together to strengthen the bond.
Take a piece of plywood 20 cm long and 5 cm in width and center of the wheel. Use the form M-seal or similar hard mass, adhesives (used in plumbing) on the plywood to the ends of the game / race wheel lock.
The basic design of the steering:
Now that the Games / Racing Wheel has been made, you can build based steering systems. Take a cardboard box30cm x 20cm. Make sure the box is quite narrow. Now take two tubes of metal (aluminum preferred). The larger tube should be about three centimeters in diameter and 1 cm in diameter and smaller. The greater the length of metal pipe should be should have a length not less than 30 not less than 20 cm and the smaller tube.
Make a hole in the center of the box and give the larger pipe through, so that only 1/3rd of it remains outside. Place the tube slightly tilted upward. Secure the tubethe box with the adhesive disk (Mseal). When the glue hardens, you can use the small metal pipe through the larger box. Connect the small end off the tube rotates in the plywood base. Now you should be able to rotate the wheel to free his foot. If the rotation is not uniform, it is possible more glue and place it near the contact points where the pipe meets the lower largest.
The internal structure of the steering group:
For the constructionassembly inside the wheel, we still need a few components. We need a flat 10K and a couple of gears. The 10K pot, you can buy parts from any electronics store. The gear you can buy or an old toy. The gears must be designed so that at least four times larger than the others, but at the same time, the teeth need to pair well.
The large metal tube extends for about half of the inside boxes. Cut pieces of plywood and fastensupport in the field using adhesives for metal tube with great firmness. The plywood should be extended to the side in order to support the pot. The gear must be smaller at the end of the small metal tube (the large metal tube) is installed. A thin metal bar, but strong and can be hot pierced the other end gears are made to act as a fulcrum. This rod bolt should extend through the other side of the box. The potentiometer is mounted must bePlywood with metal braces. The largest gear has to be glued to the handle of the pot.
Solder a pair of wires, the terminal of pots (central terminal and the other). Once the smallest gear is fixed, we can target the largest, so that the teeth are properly matched. First, rotate the larger gear in both directions and find the approximate center of the pot. Keep the pot in that position. Now put the pieces of plywood used as a vectorso that the teeth of two gears are aligned for the correct pairing. Should be closely coupled. With sponges under the plywood base to give enough support to pressure coupling between the teeth.
To keep the government forces of a spring in the middle, put a couple of rubber bands around the pivot point that sticks out the other side of the carton.
Construction of the pedals:
All three pedals on the game / running wheel are identical. X 50cm30cm piece of plywood will be needed to make the base of the pedal. Three pieces of 10 cm x 10 cm plywood are needed to make the pedals. Also three 10K potentiometer, small hinges, and three 10 cm long, thin rectangular beams necessary.
Put the pedals with a hinge to a piece of plywood base. Connect one of the three pedals potentionmeter the hinge, so that when the shaft rotates, the potentiometer can also be rotated. Bring a ball of rubber under the pedal so that it provides a spring effect.Solder the wires to the potentiometer.
Construction of the transmission of gaming / racing wheel:
For the construction of the transmission, there would be a cardboard box large enough and sturdy. (Go to a wooden box, if you can afford it). Make sure that the box has a sufficient height so that the knob will be in a comfortable position when you start to run. Also, get a grip on how to trade something (old joystick) as the shift knob. You need to make a small rectangular hole on the boxin it for metal gear stick up and down. Connect two metal plates at top and bottom of the slot, so that when the wheels touch metal bar, or if you move down, they act as switches.
Use a thin metal tube as a lever of the game / race of the wheel and fix the gear knob on top. Enter a hole in the gear for inclusion in the veins, if the joystick has buttons on it.
Provide adequate support to the gears and the shaft bottomorganizing elastic or spring mechanisms to keep centered.
Interconnection Steering wheel:
The steering wheel we build is basically a joystick and connect to the game port of your computer. The game port has a 15-pin D connector on the back of the system (usually near the audio jack) away. The pattern of pin game port on my website you can find detailed step-by-step instructions for building the wheel. (My site address you can see the referencesSection or in the authors' details)
You must be a male game port (DB15 male) to buy into the socket provided on the back of the CPU. L '(game port) interface joystick is very simple - implement the interface that has a couple of switches and axes - a. All you have to do is connect the potentiometer axes X1, Y1, X2, Y2 and switches to S1, S2, S3 and S4. See the table on the left. The variation in pots, if you turn the wheel or press the gas pedalwill be measured from the port of the game and can be used to control your game. You can specify the axes of the gaming / racing wheel and configure it via the Windows Control Panel.
S1, S2, S3 and S4 can be prepared for the change of connection, low, horn, parking brake or turn. If you change the gearbox output shaft, the metal is in contact switch is closed. Similarly with other switches. 5 is nothing more than a 5 V DC, which is available at the door gamesand G is the ground.
Configuration of the steering wheel:
The first step is to assemble the three units of the game / running wheel. Install the steering unit to your PC desktop. Keep the pedal to the floor and return to your side. Connect the units together with thorns on Foreign Exchange (relim plug or similar). Connect the cable wire connected to the 15-port DB15 male connector on the back of the computer games. Once the position is well controlled, you canDrive configuration with the steering wheel in Windows.
Open the Windows Control Panel and open the game controller. This is the game Controllers dialog box. Please note change, that the passages quoted in various versions of Windows. Therefore, the illustrative diagrams are not given.
In the Game Controllers box, click Add. This is the Add Game Controller dialog. Click Custom. In the dialog box that appears, choose Race Car Controller. Choose the axes of 4and buttons as 4 Enter a name of your choice in the dialog controller and click OK. Now the new control to be displayed in the previous dialog box. Was selected with the new controller, click OK.
If the device works correctly, the controller of the game dialog box OK sign next to the name of the controller. If something went wrong, it was "not connected" for the device are displayed. If this is the case, read the section in the yellow box at the bottom. When the games / Racing Wheel workswell, then click Properties, select the device. This is the test and calibration dialog boxes. If the wheel is not centered in the test area, go to calibrate, and follow the instructions to complete the calibration.
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