DIY Cockpit Simulator

WANTED: Used 1988 Toyota Corolla

http://cars.blogs.ca/2005/08/04/ultimate-diy-cockpit-simulator/

Man, how cool is this? He makes it sound so simple to setup. Wish I had the room and knowhow to do something like this. Hopefully he'll post some instructions or something.

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Who has that kind of time?

that......is.....fucking.....awesome

wow

Sex still wins.

He has got way too much time on his hands. He is quite possibly one of the biggest nerds ever.

Hey i'd do that too if I had a room set off for gaming. And I a nerd? Well probably but maybe not?

Hmm. That would rock for playing Live For Speed.

I think I know a way he could get the guages to work. To bad I can't tell him.

I wonder if the air conditioning works?

Hmm. That would rock for playing Live For Speed.:grinyes: do you have S2?

ahh yes other LFS players we should race! that is awesome and hes finding a way to get his gauges working right now hes on a furom josh (sk8ter) showed it to me lastnight i dont have it but maybe he could link you so you could tell him how. or not. :)

I think I know a way he could get the guages to work. To bad I can't tell him.explain

explain

Well, there is a BMW forum I frequent, that has some very smart members. One of the members created a dynamometer program for your computer that works off the sound of the engine. You just input the number of cylinders, weight of the car, driveline loss, etc etc, and the program does the rest. The point is that it can tell the RPMs of the engine from the pitch of the engine noise. If he felt like writing a similar program and building the hardware I'm sure he could make it work. The only info you would need for the speedo and tach to work for every car would be number of cylinders and the gear/diff ratios.

Pretty impressive and all for $10. He should end up working for the game industry.

I must say he did a very professional setup. Sure saved himself from buying one of those Cockpit game consoles you see at the video arcades.

One thing that is missing are the decals. :lol:

Still cool.

TS out

Somebody needs to make a server for AF people to race in LFS. Post the date and password on here.

when do you want it? i can do it now..

Be pretty easy, just gotta goto the junkyard, choose your car that you want the dash of, take it and build it yourself. I'd want a Camaro dash. :icon16:

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holy shit :lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

that awsome, i got a cheap version of that for my computer and NSFU2 ,it like a racing seat and a wheel set it the right location and relocated shifter, it looks like shit but its fun