[simpits-tech] Force Feedback

[Akin, Keenan L]

Sounds interesting.  I need to pick up an old FF stick on eBay and do some experimenting...

Keenan

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Bailey [mailto:mattb@rtccom.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:24 PM
To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Force Feedback


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
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