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Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:52 pm
by Swivel
Nice. Now do you have the plans for it, Hint Hint

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:43 pm
by dynofiend
Haha, the plans were:

1: Go under house, find some wood.

2: Find a chair.

3: Build the base and seat mount.

4: Sit in the seat and work out where the rest of the bits go with trail and error, then cut and fit them.

Nah in all seriousness, if you want the measurements ill be happy to get out the tape measure for ya. Just be aware that a cockpit like this is really built around the seat, and if your seat has different mounting points and heights etc, then the rest of the cockpit will be all wrong!

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:39 pm
by Chris
Looking really nice Dyno, cant wait for the day when I can finally do something like that =D

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:57 pm
by Wildboy99
Yeah looks great mate, ive got till november to stop been lazy and make one so i can play gt5 with my wheel

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:59 pm
by dynofiend
Thought it was time I posted some finished pics of the cockpit. Now painted and has 6 speakers (front and rears and two subs) at about 80wrms and various stands including one for the laptop. Finally it has my favourite part, a home made tactile transducer (aka bass shaker). Made it from an old speaker and its powered by the old stereo that you see under the desk. I worked out its resonant frequency (about 40hz), and then mixed in some pure sine waves of that frequency into some of the games sound files like the crash sounds, skid sounds etc. Its bloody great fun and like most of this build, was free :D

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:05 am
by Swivel
WOW.

Well done

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 5:31 pm
by KR0NIK
VERY NICE VERY WELL DONE specialy on a buget
i have never thought about adding in sound to trigger!! thats awesome

great to know how others are doing it on race nights..

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:35 pm
by Chris
Just bought some new sim parts, fairly excited and really enjoying using them :D :D

Hopefully one day will be able to put them in a cockpit :D

But heres what I got:

ACT- LABS 2006 RS Shifter
- Ordered it in from the US, came in 6 days :D
- Also bought a 2nd knob because the one that comes with it is a bit dodgey. The one at the top of the picture, made of metal and carbon fiber. Have to change the plates whenever I want to change, but I usually just leave the 6 speed and reverse on and change it to seq if I want to. Takes about 2 mins to change the plate.
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Fanatec Clubsports
- Ordered them in NZ as im sure you guys know
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Heres the whole shabangabang at the moment
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Sorry bout the quality, not too bad though. Was using phone camera

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:58 pm
by dynofiend
Totally missed these updates, nice gear there Chris, what an awesome hardware collection you have now! Just need to get the saw out and get yerself into a proper cockpit ;)

Re: "COCKPIT"

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:36 pm
by urolaj
after a few years of not using it, up for grabs if anyone wants to make an offer :lol:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =365971581