[simpits-tech] Force Feedback

[Matt Bailey]

As usual, I have ideas but no actual working projects. :)

My particular joystick, the MS Sidewinder FF Pro (the old one), simply uses 
two motors to actuate the stick. Frankly I've never flown a PC flight sim 
that has convincing enough FF effects to warrant making a special FF sim 
control, but I had considered the possibility of removing the motors from the 
case and mounting them in a steering wheel box for racing sims. Because the 
motors are non-positional (not like servos) they should keep turning 
indefinitely until the stick position or something in the sim is changed. I 
figure they could be linked via pulleys or gears and made so that a lot of 
motor rotation only moves the steering wheel a bit, thus increasing the 
torque the motors have on the wheel.

	-Matt Bailey