I just love this tread. 11 years....

I've updated the build to get more precision for accelerating and braking with TENSIOMETERS

http://jakkul.blogspot.com/2017/06/sim-racing-and-game-controllers-part-4.html

https://youtu.be/rAXuVRGbYnI

I'm using this once per week, for 1-2 hours playing sessions. It's not excellent, but my hands show no fatigue when using this.

Well, it uses much less space than a wheel. I can assure you! After about 2 hours I got used to it so much, that I can do a sub 1:37 in a GTI on Blackwood track.

Comfort is something that I need to work on. What do you mean by fast driving? Why would it not be good in such application?

http://jakkul.blogspot.com/2015/06/my-first-arduino-racing-pad-video-and.html

https://youtu.be/wtTB-mlXP2c

I've posted a video of this baby working.

Over and out!

Make one yourself, like I did

check this https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/14176-micro-racing-wheel
and this post https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1889748#post1889748

It is surprising, that after all these years, after wheels getting better and better, people look for this type of solution even more. I wonder if there would be a real market for a device like that, priced about 30-40 euros.

Make one yourself, like I did

check this https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/14176-micro-racing-wheel
and this post https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1889748#post1889748

There are rotating pulso-meters out there that work a bit like wheel roller in a mouse. You can calibrate this and use the rotation movement to point the wheels in the right direction. Even have more than 270 deg rotation on a pad.

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I started this thread nearly 10 years ago. Now I've got 2 kids, third one is due in July, I've managed to solve this.

I've made a custom arduino leonardo based controler. Check it out!

http://jakkul.blogspot.com/201 ... e-controllers-part-2.html



Total cost was less than 100 pln (that's about 24 euro).

Quote from anik360 :

Gotta correct that slight mis-conception on the plasma issue.

+1 for that. I have noticed no burn-in issues, and I usually have some news channels running on that TV with the rolling bar and various graphics elements always in the same places.

30FPS is enough I guess since I'll be playing from a few meters away. I'll drop the detail setings to low. I'll just hook up wireless mouse and keyboard, do a "LFS FTW" entry in grub and put LFS in autostart in windows Having a rig that will do just LFS or media center is quite tempting...

Hi!

I am usually racing on a rig with 3GHz core2duo, 2G ram and ati 4850. It's more than enough for 1650x1080.

I also have a PC that I use only for watching photos on my TV, divx and mp3 with Ubuntu and XBMC.

I wonder: how fast would LFS go on this rig:
Celeron 2.53
512 ram
Nvidia G 210 512 ram
resolution: 1280x720 (on a HDready plasma)

I can live without anti-aliasing, advanced texture filtering and complex shadows.

Any experiences?

regs

Quote from battle :

It seems this is a pretty high end setting but how much more can i get out of it by overclocking?

the specs you gave will get LFS going on maxed-out settings on that monitor at more than 100fps. Why do you want to overclock it?

Quote from Bose321 :

Frex. And my own wheel. But I'm not selling that ^.^

your wheel? DIY style? Where can I read about it?

Hi!

Are you willing to send to Poland? Payment by bank transfer is preferable i guess. Can you check the postage prices?

regs

Quote from [RF]-art555 :

It has 270 degrees...

Genius released it's own 900* wheel, but it looks really cheap.

Can you give me some links? I cant find that on Genius webpage

Isn't this wheel limited to 270 degrees?

Hi!

I was wondering.... Logitech has made 2 great wheels for LFS: G25 and DFP/DFG. There is the 911 as well.

Maybe some of you have already spotted some el-cheapo wheels from China with 720 deg or more lock2lock and FF?

regs

Hi!

I've found that on the net:

http://www.sklep.modelarnia.pl ... or-samochodowy-usb-himoto

Sorry for Polish language, 100 pln is about 25 euros.

That is a remote control unit for RC car models simulator. You use the wheel on the side of it for steering and the trigger for gas/breaks. I'm trying to find out if it works and give you some opinions. If the gas/breaks work nice on this trigger, that might be better than a gamepad with normal analogue axis.

regs

Hi! I'm new as well.

Bought S2 a week ago.

I've got a question - can you suggest a small and precise controller for the LFS, that would allow me to race better than using mouse? I know that buying G25 is the way to go, but that has a rather low Wife-Acceptance-Factor. Maybe something similar to RC cars controllers, like this one http://pawnee.wordpress.com/20 ... ter-as-a-game-controller/ ? Has anyone seen that in the wild for a reasonable price?

10 years after - be sure to check the last post below https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1889748#post1889748

Hi... im quite new in here, but like LFS sooooooo much

I've been making some research and want to buy a wheel finally (have been using analog joystick so far). All the wheels on the market are big and take a lot of space. I want something much smaller, that would allow me to control throttle, brakes, steering and gears.

Joysticks are rather out of the question as it's hard to manipulate the car's steering while doing braking and gas with the same stick.

Has anyone of you came across a device that would look like a RC-car remote that would have a small wheel to control car's steering wheel, two analog levers for fingers for throttle and brakes and 2-4 buttons (gears, looking left-right). USB, does not have to be extremely cheap.

10 years after - be sure to check the last post below https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1889748#post1889748

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