F1 Steering wheel + Cockpit

[TheHawk]

Hi guys i want to realize by me a F1 2016 style steering wheel (dashboard too) + dinamic cockpit.
Becouse of a long time project develop (i don't have much time right now) i want to start with the steering wheel which is the most important part of this project

In particular i think to insert:

INPUTS:
15x push-buttons (2x gear up/down wheel-mounted, 2x gear up/down at gear shift, 1x push-to-talk, others for the various funcion).
1x rotary encoder/pot
1x load-cell for brake pedal
1x ultrasonic sensor/slide pot for throttle pedal
1x slide pot for clutch lever wheel-mounted
3x rotary switch

OUTPUTS:
2x vibrator motor to get vibration
1x motor (i don't know which) for force-feedback
DASHBOARD:
1x lcd 128x64
15x leds of various colors for RPM.

I think to attach all of this components to an arduino mega2560. (Have you other boards to advise me??)
This board have a serial communication with the pc and it isn't recognized as an HID joystick. With this type of board can x-sim software catch inputs and send it to a supported game (I know by assetto corsa and Is F1 2015 supported?) and viceversa get signals by the game and send to my board to get FFB LCD ext work??

Exceeded this point i can go on with the building and pass at the cockpit!
Thanks all guys for your support!

[joamar]

Hola The Hawk, terminaste el proyecto???

Estoy consultando a varios miembros en el foro.... pues tengo intenciones de hacer realidad el proyecto de un simulador con movimientos.
Saludos

[TheHawk]

Hi joamar

my project is in developing yet, due to hard work at university i couldn't go faster
to complete it. I'm developing the steering wheel first.

But becouse i've not received any response about interfacing an arduino with x-sim here
and i think that is not possible to emulate an HID device with it,
with the help of the vJoy library (C++) i'm developing a software too
that can transform the serial communication of an arduino in HID signals.
At the same time the software is interfacing with the telemetry plugin
(Actually only with F1 2015 but it's simple to pass to another games (I'm programming modularly))
passing FFB signals too, but i've to configure them yet becouse i haven't the motors yet.
Testing the software it works perfectly and buttons and axes are recognized by the game
and the Dashboard on the Steering Wheel works too and all seems to be very good.

Mechanical parts are finished but in future for secure i'll beautify them.

Soon i'll post some photos here and when all will be finished probably i'll post the code
(Arduino & Windows or QT) on Git linking it here.

[joamar]

Pasate las fotos...... yo ya compre los motores y vere como hago para hacerlos funcionar.

Yo he realizado la programacion con los PICAXE (y creo que va bastante bien). No alcanzo a entender como sacan la informacion del juego hacia la placa. Yo tengo la PS3 y desde alli quiero hacerlo. Creo que todos tienen PC y desde alli hacia el arduino y luego a los motores.

Veo que estas en la programacion.... y eso si que es un trabajo importatnte, lo que yo hice con los picaxe es muy sencillo, pero efectivo.

Tengo pensado, abrir un volante viejo, y sacar la informacion del volante hacia el la placa con el picaxe - arduino y luego a los motores. A mi solo me interesa la la F1 y desde alli sacar la informacion. Esto que te digo trabajaria en paralelo con el volante original, y sacando las señales de este, hacia la placa que programe.

Bueno, estemos en cotacto y nos contamos como va el proyecto de ambos.

Abrazos.

[TheHawk]

Hi joamar, i'm understanding that you want to build a steering wheel that works on PlayStation 3, is it correct?

If you want to use it in usbMode, you've to implements an HID device, that is a kernel driver.
In arduino you've to change the bootloader to recognize it as an HID;

You can google darran big joystick arduino mega and you can get an idea and that is what i wanted to make,
but its not supporting FFB. You can get here the HID definition of PS3 controller.
http://eleccelerator.com/wiki/index.php?title=DualShock_3

If you can get the MAC Bluetooth address of your PS3, you can exchange the data with your PS3 with bluetooth
that i think that it's very more simple, and you can find bluetooth boards for arduino for little price on internet.

I'm developing my Steering Wheel for PC and than i'm actually using serial communication with usb.

If you have questions about you can ask me here!

[TheHawk]

And i forget to ask you to do me a favor: write in English becouse google translations from ESP to ITA are a fully SHIT

[mirxtrem]

I think it's a great project, i'd tried to do it, but i think thats it's imposible with one only arduino board, may you need two. arduino can be use like a joystick without vibration (unojoy and similar) unfortunatelly. You are going for the right way. i hoe to see it finished.

sorry about my english!