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Well I bought my kid a PS3 for Xmas and I got sick of playing on real cars and getting nowhere so today I thought I should put my time to good use and knocked up this :





and played GT5 on this :



not the best photo but at least you can see the size of the screen

LOL Nice !

I WANT ONE!!! Please.
That is awsome!

that looks great but your kid must be as tall as you

where is the height adjuster is it all done from the seat?

TOONGA

haha awesome

how did you get that one past the wife

alang wrote:how did you get that one past the wife

I did it while she was away with the kids

TOONGA wrote:that looks great but your kid must be as tall as you

where is the height adjuster is it all done from the seat?

TOONGA

Steering wheel and pedals slide independently in and out to adjust for reach and the steering wheel has 2 heights available - the second one is 60mm lower than the photo.

So it will pull apart in 10 secs and be easily stowed away.

Gonna build a second one next week so I can teach the kid a thing or two. Actually the little brat will probably kick my butt. It doesn't matter how good I can drive a real car I just can't get the hang of virtual ones

looks great for a homemade simulator! if anyone interested into this one ... I might get it for you. It's amazing

klam wrote:looks great for a homemade simulator! if anyone interested into this one ... I might get it for you. It's amazing

Yeah I would love one of those - be bloody expensive I imagine.

I go to Sim World in Carousel shopping centre (in Perth) where they have something very similar. It is pretty good and very tiring but still isn't anywhere near the real thing.

Off-topic but I used to work for Ansett many years ago and managed score an hour in their flight simulator. Now that was realistic - so much so that I nearly threw up when we did a really quick manouevre and honestly thought I was going to die when we crashed. We had been flying for about 50mins and I had forgot I was in a simulator and I was flying on instruments and when I looked up we were about 50ft from the ground and heading straight for it - talk about adrenalin rush.

niterida wrote:Well I bought my kid a PS3 for Xmas and I got sick of playing on real cars and getting nowhere so today I thought I should put my time to good use and knocked up this :

Yeah right !! I told the missus the same thing

Looks good Ken. I love the projector.

brockharro wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFCRh-anfRg

Yeah thats what Klam posted a photo of.

Would be good - any idea how much ??

niterida wrote: Off-topic but I used to work for Ansett many years ago and managed score an hour in their flight simulator. Now that was realistic - so much so that I nearly threw up when we did a really quick manouevre and honestly thought I was going to die when we crashed. We had been flying for about 50mins and I had forgot I was in a simulator and I was flying on instruments and when I looked up we were about 50ft from the ground and heading straight for it - talk about adrenalin rush.

I was just about to say someone should make something exactly like that sim but for Aircraft games, some of the WWII combat sims would be amazing if you had your own 2 axis simulator

niterida wrote:Well I bought my kid a PS3 for Xmas and I got sick of playing on real cars and getting nowhere so today I thought I should put my time to good use and knocked up this :

Haha I've heard that one before lol

Awesome setup, & that is a massive screen!

I bet he will beat you too, kids are brought on on PS & XBox. Good luck hehe

That video game chair looks awesome too, bet is bloody expensive! probably break after a few goes too lol

Great setup, but I can see why kids can't keep their cars on the road these days, it looks like there's a gear shifter (manual of course) but only two foot pedals!!!

To quote Jay from Jay and Silent Bob in Dogma: "GEARS?!"

So I guess the subi gets neglected for a while now?

Cheers

Bennie

El_Freddo wrote:Great setup, but I can see why kids can't keep their cars on the road these days, it looks like there's a gear shifter (manual of course) but only two foot pedals!!!

To quote Jay from Jay and Silent Bob in Dogma: "GEARS?!"

So I guess the subi gets neglected for a while now?

Cheers

Bennie

hahahaha

And then there were two





Projector image looks a lot worse than what it really is. But I have a plan to fix that anyway - buying a new 3D projector that is much brighter and better for gaming and movies - and only $800

Haha no way...they're multiplying! I hope those kids realise how very very lucky they are! lol

Its amazing what a difference a lick of paint makes :



I have to paint the bottom bar but I am going to make it easily removable first.

niterida wrote:Would be good - any idea how much ??

it costs around 25K euro. +/- couple of hundreds. That's GST, transport (from EU) and service fees excluded.

I reckon buying a car and going to a racetrack is cheaper ... but this unit is not for home entertainment I reckon. it's more for driving simulation, no one gets hurt, possible lots of real racing tracks can be uploaded. I imagine it sitting in the shopping malls for entertainment, in driving schools possibly, at race tracks for the track drive simulation.
To someone the moves can appear weird, but it's to simulate the g-force. once you sit in there it's really an amazing experience.