The best way to play oolite!

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:28 am

you've probably all seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBD9Juqx7PI

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:10 am

A host of ideas for the avid DIY'er.

http://www.rogerdodger.net/diyflightsims.html
http://buggies.builtforfun.co.uk/Sim/platform2.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 1061610567
http://www.lumenlab.com/estore/product. ... ctid=16136
http://www.paulsflightsim.com/links.htm

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:00 pm

I'm resurecting this tread, Why? Because I think making something that invades reality is way cool. Also I've found some more specialist websites who do the same sort of thing.

http://orbiter-forum.com/

But more specifically:
http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=4816

If you read nothing else here, then read this thread.
Is there any chance of a sticky? Or is this a little bit obscure?

0235 · Post by **0235** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:52 pm

holy moley, that would be amazing, a whole Cockpit and different ones for different ships!!!

treczoks · Post by **treczoks** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:32 pm

ramon wrote:
you've probably all seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBD9Juqx7PI

No, I haven't: Not available in my country due to copyright restrictions.

Post by **Kaks** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:53 pm

Weird, it's the video from a hobbyist who actually built a working one of these

http://ptyxiouxos.net//greekbotics/user ... ulator.htm

which I wouldn't have thought came with copyright restrictions...

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:25 am

treczoks wrote:
ramon wrote:
you've probably all seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBD9Juqx7PI
No, I haven't: Not available in my country due to copyright restrictions.

Maybe something to do with the music he used on the video? (Danger Zone from Top Gun)

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:54 pm

I want a CNC

Kaiserspike · Post by **Kaiserspike** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:50 pm

Presti, your set up is class,well done!
LOVE the controls and the look has that suitably retro feel.
The only problem is the monitor!

I've just gotten myself a digital projector,

A 2 and 1/2 meter screen is the only way to hurtle thru the space lanes!

Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 3:05 pm

you guys take this too seriously...

...but its cool !

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_ds_ · Post by **_ds_** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:10 pm

Rebecca wrote:
you guys take this too seriously... it's just a game.

<stir>

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:06 pm

Well if you can't go OTT over a hobby then what can you go OTT over?

To be honest if I could set up a system that made me feel like I was floating in space by simply having cockpit like tech a good bucket seat and a full vision screen (at a price that won't stop my daughter going to college) then hell, I'm there.

As for "only a game", well so is (given a long enough time line) pretty much everything really. To be honest apathy kills anything so the spark of enthusiasm in any creative venture is (in the most part) to be recognized and cheered on.

Most of us cannot fly around space yet, so we dream.

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:18 pm

ClymAngus wrote:
To be honest if I could set up a system that made me feel like I was floating in space by simply having cockpit like tech a good bucket seat and a full vision screen (at a price that won't stop my daughter going to college) then hell, I'm there.

I sometimes still dream of my visit to some research lab around 15 years ago. Not only that they had a 3d room (you could look anywhere freely and have the proper 3d image there, pretty much like the control room of a Minbari cruiser!) but they also did have a chair that would move with 4g acceleration according to the computers calculations. The demo was a rollercoaster (the subject had glasses with internal LCD display) which was pretty much fun, but just imagine that thing for a flight simulator (might be good that it's not supporting as many g as a fighter plane, or the player might really get red/black out).

Screet

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:37 pm

more internet lint!
http://www.wideview.it/my_cockpit.htm
http://www.flightsim.com/main/m-howto.htm

Ok and servo chairs for de screet!
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech ... ing-chairs

And a touch of geek porn:

http://www.novelquest.com/emperor_specs.html

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:44 pm

Ok I'm rezzing this thread. More as a reference really so I can look it up when I'm building my "setup".

Daddy hoggy might be more into this one than others but:

I have been looking into the entire cockpit computer system. Found some people who do military control systems;
They do usb too:
http://www.globalspec.com/supplier/prof ... Scientific

http://www.chproducts.com/oem/hg_series_iv.html

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