Hello friend. Have you ever dreamed of driving cars like we do in the real world? Here I will give you a brief guide to the construction of a wheel, which not only has a steering brake and gas pedal, but a clutch and a gearbox, too. It will cost more than $ 10 if you have the most important tools readily available, as we saw, screwdrivers and the like.
It is not only damn cheap, its much the same games / Racing Wheel, you buy the 100 + dollars. L ' only major difference is that our games / Racing Wheel is to have no force-feedback mechanism. Its not a problem, unless you're a serious player and has enough money to spend on a Logitech G25 or the like. This is where the lights and the features that the game / racing you have to build
· Wheels steering with about two full rotations (720 °) in both directions, as in a real car
Or individual gas, brake and clutch
• A transmission> Sequential
The design of the steering wheel:
Bring a plastic / PVC pipe of 2 cm in diameter (approximately) and 80 inches long (approx). Light a candle and heat the tube from one end to the other end. When heated slightly bend the pipe in steps, so that when the entire length of heated and bent, takes the form of a motion of game / race, with the open ends. Now heat one of the open end of the tube and push it down more so that the ends overlap, and theTube includes a wheel and allowed to cool. Then wash the tube and with a towel. Apply super glue to put the ends together to strengthen the bond.
Take a piece of plywood 20 cm in length and width of 5 cm and put it in the center of the wheel. Using M-seal or similar hard mass formed adhesive (used in pipes) to connect the plywood to the ends of the gaming / driving.
The design of the steering wheel Base:
Now that the games / Road has been done to build the steeringBase. Take a cardboard box of about 30cm x 20cm. Make sure the box is strong enough. Now take two tubes of metal (preferably aluminum). The larger tube should be about three centimeters in diameter and the smallest with 1 cm in diameter. The largest metal pipe should have a length not less than 20 cm and the smaller tube has a length not less than 30cm.
Make a hole at the center of the window and give the larger tube so that only 1/3rd left out. Place the tubeslightly. The tube to the box with the adhesive disk (Mseal). When the glue hardens, the metal tube smaller than the size of the gauges. Connect the small tube over the end of the offset wheel. You should now be able to rotate the wheel to free his foot. When the rotation is not uniform, it is possible to put more adhesive and files, in the vicinity of the focal points that satisfies the larger pipes, the smaller ones.
Construction of wheelInternal Assembly:
For the construction of the house of flying, we need a few more components. We need a 10K pot and a couple of gears. The 10K pot you can buy from any electronics store of spare parts. The gears can buy or get from some old toys. The gears shall be such that at least four times larger than the others, but at the same pair of their teeth should be fine.
The large metal tube extends for about half of theBoxes inside. Cut pieces of plywood, and attach stickers to the box using the metal tube of very strong support. The plywood should be extended to the other end, in order to support the pot. The smaller gear has to be the end of the small metal tube (the large metal tube) are installed. A thin metal bar, but strong can be made hot and pierced the other end of the gears, so as to act as a fulcrum. This torsion bar should be on the opposite side of the box.The potentiometer must be on the plywood with metal brackets are mounted. The larger gear must comply with the handle of the pot.
Given a pair of wires to the terminals pots (center terminal and the other one) is. Since the smaller gear is fixed, you can close the largest, so that the teeth are properly matched. First, you rotate the larger gear in both directions and find the approximate center of the potentiometer. Keep the pot in that position.Now imagine the pieces of plywood as a support so that the teeth of two gears to mate properly to align. Should be closely coupled. With sponges under the base of the plywood to give adequate support capable of coupling pressure between the teeth.
To give the government a spring force to keep it centered, a pair of rubber bands to bring the axis of the pin that sticks out the other side of the cardboard box.
Construction of the pedals:
All three pedalson / steering wheel of play are identical. A 50 cm x 30 cm piece of plywood will be needed to make the pedal base. Three 10cm x 10cm pieces of plywood are needed for making the pedals. 10K potentiometer, three small hinges, with three 10cm long, thin rectangular beams necessary.
Put the pedals on a base with a hinged piece of plywood. Connect a potentiometer on the hinge of the three pedals, so that when the shaft rotates, the potentiometer can also get shot. Place a rubber ballunder the pedal so that they have a spring effect. Solder the wires of the potentiometer.
Construction of the transmission of the gaming / racing bike:
For the construction of the transmission, there would be a cardboard box large enough and stable. (Go for a box of plywood, if you can afford it). Make sure that the box of sufficient height so that the shift knob in a comfortable position when you must start the race. Even such a thing (old joystick handle) to act as a knob handle. YouNeed a small rectangular slot on the gear stick metal to make up and slid into it. Bring two sheets of metal at the top and bottom of the slot so that when the gear wheels touched the metal rod when it moves up or down, they act as switches.
Use a thin metal tube as the gear stick of gaming / fix the steering wheel and shift knob on top. Enter a hole in the gearbox for inclusion in the wires, if the joystick has buttons on the handle.
Offersufficient support for the course and wave at the bottom is elastic or spring mechanism to keep centered.
Wheel of interconnection:
The steering wheel we build is basically a joystick and connect to the game port on your computer. The game port has a 15-pin D connector on the back of the system (usually near the audio jack). The pin diagram of the game port on my websites you detailed step by step guideStructure of the wheel. (My site address you can see the references section, the authors detail)
You have to buy a male game port (DB15 male) to the expected on the back of your CPU socket. The joystick (game port) interface is very simple - implement the interface that houses a couple of switches and controls - a. All you need is your pot to the axes X1, Y1, X2, Y2 and switches S1, S2, S3 and S4 for the connection. See the table on the left. L 'Change pot if you turn the wheel or press the accelerator will be measured by the game port and can be used to control your game. You can assign the axis of the play / steering wheel and configured through the Control Panel.
Switches S1, S2, S3 and S4 for the connection can be used in fishing equipment, gear down, and brake switch and horn. If you move the mechanism of the tree is in contact with the metal is closed and switch. Similar is the case with otherSwitch. 5 is nothing more than the 5 V DC, that the game port, and G is the ground.
Configuration of the steering wheel:
The first step is to bring together three drives of the game / race bike. Install the steering unit on your table PC. Hold down on the floor and the gearbox on the pedal. Connect the device to the gear box with plugs (plug relim or similar). Connect the case 15 "cable with the DB15the game port on the back of the computer. Once the position is well controlled, we can proceed to configure the steering wheel in Windows.
Open the Control Panel and open the game controller. This opens the game window box. Please note change, that the passages cited in various versions of Windows. Thus, the pattern diagrams are not given.
In the Game Controllers box, click Add. This opens the Add Game Controller dialog box. Click on "Custom". InThe dialog box that appears, select Race Car Controller. Choose the axes and buttons quarter 4 Enter a name of your choice in the controller name field and click OK. Now the new control should be displayed in the previous dialog box. selected with the new controller, click OK.
If the device is working properly, it will show the game controller dialog box OK next to the name of the controller. If something goes wrong, is a non-state "connected" to the device listed. If this is the case, seeSection in the yellow box below. If the / bike racing game works fine, click the Properties button, select the device. This is the testing and calibration dialog. If the wheel is not centered in the test area, go to calibrate and follow the instructions to complete the calibration.
No comments:
Post a Comment