| Blog post author here - Didn't expect a hack I did 5 years ago to show up here! This project was a weekend project that I took on. I used to professionally reverse engineer cars for building self-driving research vehicles for companies. Here's a demo of it using a VR headset that I made shortly after the blog post: https://youtu.be/jfWcgWdSK28 To answer the other questions, I made it work directly with PCs as a USB accessory. It doesn't require the Xbox gamepad in that variant. I never bothered building out the FFB for the steering wheel - but it would be a nice addition. That said, slightly jacking the nose of the car up gave enough resistance on the wheels but it was still easy enough to turn. It's still been a great tool for me to get seat time. Recently, I just taught at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium and the Nürburgring in Germany. I used this sim rig setup to get properly acquainted with the tracks before teaching in person. Last, along with a production company in NY, we used the same technology in a big rig truck to make it into a super realistic truck simulator for Pilot Logistics. I think there's media on it floating around the internet somewhere. Cheers and happy to answer any questions! |