DIY Simulator steering wheel tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Hi guys, sorry for the long time, but now I am gonne to show you, how you can build this simulator steering wheel. As you can see I built a totally new one, why? Less complicated and cleaner design. The parts are easier to obtain and manufacture, full documentation. I don't like disassembling that what I've assembled once. 😊 In this description You can find the BOM list, schematic, 3d print files, laser cut pattern and machined part files in the link. With this video I would like to give ideas or inspiration for the DIY projects.
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You can buy a PCB for 10 USD (Shipping fee 3 USD to most countries).
If you want a PCB, send an email to repasy.tamas@gmail.com
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Thanks to Dávid Kálmán for the music.
His channel: / @kalmandavid3669
Hey Guys! Thank you the lot of comments and kind words! I appreciate! I haven't answered every comment yet, but I will in the next days. I think the most frequently asked question is the cost. For me it cost about 300-350 USD. But I don't know exactly, because I don't care. I built it for fun. I didn't make it for savings and I don't want to compete with big manufacturers. If someone takes as much pleasure in building as I did, it was already worth making the video.
I am not a simracer, I rarely play, I like much better the engineering. I built this wheel, because at the time I was interested in this. Maybe the next time I will be design something totally else stuff (But probably it will be a shifter - 99%).
There are some comments to which I will not answer. A short answer for these: Something is a tutorial or not? It totally depends on your skills. If someone can't distinguish a screw from a resistor, this really isn't a tutorial. For some badass genius a piece of drawing can also be a tutorial. Hard question. It is a moderately complex project, so it requires some basic knowledge.
3d printing and laser cutting? Yeah! Welcome in 2021!
If someone has no experience in machining processes, then 3D printing and laser cutting is the cheapest alternative to produce quality and intricate parts.
If somebody cannot understand this, I highly recommend for those people the 5-Minute Crafts videos. I am pretty sure they can build something cool stuff from glue and cardboard. XD
that is some mad skills right there yo
Perfeitamente esta sua colocação!! Não nos importamos com valores, mais sim pelo prazer de fazer! de dar vida a algo!!! TOP Parabéns!
Thanks
Como você descobriu quais resistores usar nas portas analógicas A4 e A5? Gostei muito do seu trabalho!
I personally love it I'm not trying to be rude but why not direct drive?
The renders and build quality, it truly looks like it came out of a factory
If it came out of a factory, it would've been made of plastic
@@OrionMCMXCV that's not what i meant but ok
@@sepitbeats It seems like you missed Alex Mitchell's capitalism joke
@@Fallice wha-
@@sepitbeats Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Alex Mirchell was joking about how factories would use plastic instead of high quality material to cut prices
Super smart idea to monitor resistance values for the programmable buttons. I probably would have a separate wire for each one and added a bunch more failure points. The use of magnets instead of springs for the paddles was also brilliant. Great job!
It ain't as good as you would imagine, and will require a good analog read at the other side, and the buttons with the least significant bits are prone to interference.
Hello, I wanted to buy the PCB, but I did not receive a response. If anyone has one, could you please send it to me?
he didn't even monetize the video, this man is a hero
He can’t
@@demonorgoddes_8312 not yet ! But soon 😂
i just get an ads
@@dnilaimn that's probably so youtube and google can make money
It look ridiculously well thought out and machined, like a piece of professionally built, very short production run, ultra high end equipment.
I'm very impressed with your work on this mate.
One word "Perfection"
Thank you very much!
Really great work, but the only two word would be : input lag. It's not your driving that makes this so wobbly, but the late input.
I'd really like to make one of these. Is there a way to improve this?
@@sityu82 i'm very sure ther is a way to improve that.
@TOSCANELLO FUN MOMENT Adamın adı Tamas Repasy o yüzden "TR" diye kısaltmış sanırım.
apart from the bench
Congratulations on your work, very professional, clean and direct! This would greatly help the sim racing community to have such a robust and easy-to-maintain steering wheel. Greetings
Thank you!
@@tomthomas21how much to buy all the part from you to assemble ourselves?
Okay, nevermind I'll just buy one.
beat me to it
@@marcomelbourne Other guys did it using his instructions ! Theres enjoyment to be had in building stuff too !
@@marcomelbourne Yeah but this wheel beats Logitech 10X
@@marcomelbourne this beats logitech in every metric.. besides if he has the money to build this stuff and live a comfortable life why stop him
@@marcomelbourne you do realize that this is way better than the g29 by a Longshot don't you?
A DIY direct drive version of this would be great.
I think you could just put the motor just in front of the steering shaft, right?
@@temp_uura i guess it would not have enough torque. the construction and software setup would be a bit different
@@ubaft3135 Yeah would've thought that
I build one with a brushless dc motor from a hoverboard
@@TLenssen how? do you have a tutorial?
I actually came here for the electrical and the software side of the project. As far as i saw its a ready to use program available for it now. Back than when is was thinking about a project like this there were no such program. Good to see it became more simple. Anyways great video.
The pedals my friend i want to see the pedals, what a perfection, you deserve all the credits, this is the cotent i want to see in youtube, learning with the best. Thank you for the free project.
Hi! Thank you very much! I used that pedals which I made for the first wheel. You can see in my first video.
@@tomthomas21 Thanks i had see it. First the wheel then the pedals
I will copy this build *but* :
Make it out of MDF
Have the wheel tilted like in a real car
Use my full size steering wheel from my race car
Great video 👍
Just one word: Awesome!
Hope to see a new part with the pedals and shifter assembly video!
Cheers from Buenos Aires :)
his is more than a pro, everyone should see this clip on how to make a simulator. The best production that can be seen on RUclips!
Oh man, that was so perfect. The idea, materials, execution, documentation, and presentation are top notch!
oh man, I need to see the video again now, I spent the first run headbanging! Great build, great music
Hmm. Steering buttons on a resistive matrix and sliding contact for taking readings is an extremely unfortunate combination. When the contacts oxidize or get dirty (and this will happen rather quickly, since they are not covered with gold), this whole system will begin to glitch badly. IMHO, it was worth using a "clock spring" instead of the current collector, which can be borrowed from the steering wheel of any serial car produced after 2000. Inside this "clock spring" there is a flexible stranded train, rolled into a ring, which allows you to rotate the steering wheel several turns to either side from the center point. The reliability of such a solution is much higher.
In any case, the work done is phenomenal, thanks for the video)
Yea that's my only real problem with it. I do like how he split up the button bus so you can press the buttons on the left and right at the same time. Took some thought. Honestly if all your doing is detecting button presses RFID might be the way to go. You don't have to have any physical contact with the shaft and logic AND power can be sent though RF, but it would mean building a coil antenna in the shaft and using some more electronics. The plus side you wouldn't lose any accuracy and still have a 360 degree freedom with the bonus of having more buttons or controls latter.
Sprung or sliding contacts have been used in automotive stuff for eons, almost every horn button or rim was connected via this method and a fair amount of stuff that had wheel mounted drive select buttons used this method too,and by and large they were very durable.In my nearly fifty years in the motor trade the only time I had to replace contacts was on a Talbot in which the owner had removed the grease while the wheel was removed and had failed to replace it.
Hello, I wanted to buy the PCB, but I did not receive a response. If anyone has one, could you please send it to me?
One of the best work I ever seen in YT
Man this is amazing, I hope it gets in recommended to everyone and you pop off
waited forever for this to come out. Thank you so much.
The most neat and clean build i've seen so far. well done mate!!
Bruh!! Your work is fantastically neat and professional. I'd buy a wheel off you
Long awaited my friend
Amazing design. Well built!
In my opinion this wheel is perfect. Currently I waiting for your shifter.🙂
tbh there are many shifter videos out there just make it look better then them and build it better but use there ideas
look the gearbox SRT
The most professional DIY video on the Internet:
It's like this video fell from heaven at just the right time. Now to get the guts to do this. And find a laser cutter
Not sure, but some companies that started out as a CNC-service-for-consumers and who now might be in 3D printing as well might do stuff like laser cutting as well. It might not be cheap, but it's probably more expensive to buy one yourself and have one with the power of being able to cut through 5mm of alumnium.
Hello, I wanted to buy the PCB, but I did not receive a response. If anyone has one, could you please send it to me?
WHOWWWWW this is my next projekt when I finished the motion sim rig. AMAZING
its very nice and clean project .I really love it .Because You put your parts and other stuff on your video description .So its very helpful for others . please do like that videos .Good Luck Brother . keep it UP :3
Thank you your kind words!
Amazing work! 👌👌 FFB looks intense solid built congrats!
Wow the detail in this build is just beautiful. Nice and clean and very well designed. Everything nicely terminated and heat shrunk functioning art.
Hmm...that thing looks like it's really capable. Congrats on the execution!
hes just flexing with his laser cutter while im watching with my plasitc printer and then realizing i can make it, with plastic
But it would not be as strong
Sure, why not, but did you see the table shake at the end?
yeah, but look his desk barely holds it on, i think here even PETG wont hold pressure, but can try, let us all know :D
@@ygalion I saw it and I'm kinda disappointed tbh, but why not, imma buy the motors and the circuit and try to make a better looking casing and I will try to make it hold good
@@OdysBrother yeah I'm kinda disappointed
friend, congratulations on the work!!! until today, your project was the most complete, beautiful and described that I could see until today!!! simply a job well done!!!
finally really detailed video :)
Thank you!
Hello, I wanted to buy the PCB, but I did not receive a response. If anyone has one, could you please send it to me?
The way you built it its uptomark
Its dream of millions to have this
Or to built like this
You are such an amazing😱
Quedó espectacular, saludos desde Chile.
wena po socio, hay que hacerse este volate para el forza horizon 5 o para el forza motor sport 8
Dude this is insanely clean. One thing I didn't quite understand was how you got like 10 button inputs over like 3 wires without any additional circuitry.
That's where the resistors come in. All buttons are wired in series, and every button opens up with a different resistance, that the software can map to the appropriate buttons.
@@beginswithaj woah that's smart, I love it, but it also probably makes simultaneous presses difficult. Because you risk getting the same resistance from different combinations
@@yamaan93 depends on the resistance of the individual components I guess. If you do it right, any combination of buttons would send a value equal to only the values of those buttons combined. Like a binary system. But in reality I think you won't even be pressing a lot of buttons together anyway.
Also really high quality animationf
Wow mate, just wow. Excellent work❤
Can you share your printed circuit diagram?
with TR WORK written on it
Excellent, professional, exceptional, magnificent, incredible, majestic
How does it keep track of 0 degrees (central position i guess)? Like when you turn it on or especially if you spin it more than possible in the car
I was thinking about this!!
What a slick perfectly designed wheel i m definitely make one of that one
Thank you!
Im starting to build my ffb wheel, do you have The datasheet of this motor? Or do you know whats The maximum torque of it?
Instead of laser cut parts i will use alluminum profiles used on 3d printer frame
Youre a genius man, I dont know else to say.
wow. good job. im impressed of your work. i always wanted an direct drive but its way to expensive. how much money has cost your projekt?
Yes! please send more videos like this. you should build pedals or shifters too :-)
yeah, please
amazing video bro everything was perfect even the game you choose
shorting different value resistors in series to detect different button presses is super interesting, anyone smart in the comments know what is this process called? I see people doing it in parallel but they can only detect one input at a time.
looking for info on this too, just discovered this video. I'm still trying to understand exactly how that works. I can't imagine the resistance across the plates to get the data out of the wheel is constant? Not sure but interesting to say the least
1+2=3, 1+3=4 , 2+3=5, 1+2+3=6.. do your resistances in a way that no combinations can create the same resistance then set up a matrix in the software for each combination. He used 6 buttons and 3 wires so I think he had them split into a left and right side. 1k ohm, 5k ohm, 10k ohm should give you enough variance between the presses to easily distinguish what is being pressed. If you get 1k resist, its button 1, 5k it's 2, 10k it's 3, 11k is 1 and 3, 6k is 1 and 2, 15k is 2 and 3 and 16k would be all 3. Mirror that on 2 circuits and you have 6 buttons ran on 3 wires.
Terapi gibi video olmuş bağlantıları ve lehimlemeleri izledikçe keyif aldım başarılar.
I'm actually building one myself after reviewing your video, but I have a question. Any idea how much torque this wheel is capable of? I've done some math to calculate the torque, but I'm curious how it compares to something like a Logitech G29. Great work, thanks for putting this in the public domain!
depends on the motor. The Motor used here can do much much more than G29 but in the end it depends on motor. Look for EBike motors with their controller or use a BTS7960 and hook it upto a MCU to control it
Hope you got a sturdy desk, motors in a G29 or even the Thrustmaster wheels wont damage but start getting above 3nM and it twists and contorts your desk like a chinese fingertrap
Wow it's super heavy duty, it looks amazing
Really nice design man. It looks quite stable and powerful. That 180W motor is looking good. How is it compares to the "cheaper" commercial steering wheels like a Logitech G29 or Thrustmaster? I am pretty sure this is way more rigid and even stronger. Thank you for sharing it with us. Üdv Magyarországról :)
It looks insane! Clean job.
Thank you!
looks like it has lots of power, how is it compared to thrustmaster or fanatec?
I haven't another wheel, so I can't compare now.
Amazing work. Well done!
What do you say to me about precision and FFB? Can you compare this wheel with Thrustmaster or fanatec?
Have the same question
oh my god. i've been waiting for this video from you over 9 months
thank you so much for making this video
Incredible, great job! Quick question, what would it take to produce a Direct Drive version?
Hand break and pedals tutorial when? Awesome work dude, really impressive.
Amazing work!!
It looks like it has a pretty bad input lag. That's why it's hard to control the car at 13:16. Have you tried switching from Arduino Leonardo to the STM32 board?
WTF did I just watch? hands down the most impressive stuff I've seen in a while...
This is not diy that just step by step how the factory made it
So overbuilt. I love it. Also 4:03 and 6:20, use dupont crimps connectors, it'll be much easier and stronger than soldering, and protected without heatsink...
A lot of money, a lot of effort and a lot of time for a bad result (bad FFB drivers, also you must customize every game). Just go to the store.
And I'm here just wishing I could extract more power out of my poor Thrustmaster T150... Nice work man!
I can understand the hard work behind the whole build. maybe it took months to build, yet you made it look so simple. The FFb also looks promising. Big Salute
Nice! Only two minor suggestions, put grommets in to protect wires passing through holes and use thread lock on screws, you don't want stray nuts in the works.
Fabulous, surely more durable than commercial ones
Very Nice. I was looking for a video like this
Thanks!
Holly molly, the amount of craftsmanship is unbelievable, It's just perfect, I'm in love with this, thanks m8 for sharing this with all of us. Cheers and keep going strong m8!
Wonderful work, man
Thanks for the video
OMG. Nobody can do it like him. Awesome skill.
Wow, very clean build ! And awesome design !
Man that looks awesome, it's like it came from a factory nice job.
I love the way you made this wheel base. All love you put into it resulting this high quality in a simple design. 🤩🤩
Great job dude, that s look awesome!!!
Really nice work man, instant sub! (and might buy a pcb even though I may never build it lol)
Edit: just went to your channel and saw you have barely any videos like this...MAKE MORE!!!
this guy totatlly know what he doing.
nice job, thumbs up
thanks m8! refreshing to see a DIY person not put a paywall on the files! your channel will blow up with subs in no time
Give this man a medal!
Very nice guy, your content, I'm trying to get all the pieces to make one, however in Brazil it's kind of difficult, more congratulations, your content was the best I've seen so far about simulators.
An amazing build, but doing your own slipring??? WOW MAN... Hats off
Dude thats freaking awesome
After watching this video, I'm sure the 299 USD I'd paid in my T300RS is really worth... Amazing video man! thanks for sharing with us and congrats for the great job!
what a great content dude
love to see this video, keep it up
it's amazing. i could feel the tactility of the paddles lol
Good effort mate. It’s way too much of a project for me, but I love that you did it 👍🏼
Incredible work !!
This is amazing, showed in YT feed just when I needed such video.
This music is fantastic. Also some information on how you interface with DirectX would be nice.
cymbals sound amazing 👍
I didn't know you could do this. This is awesome!
охрененно! я ждал такого видео 2 года! и вот почти полное руководство по изготовлению своего руля 900 градусов с виброотдачей
два года прошли зря , вот тебе видео с чего этот руль скапитализдили , автор наш , русский :)) ruclips.net/video/42-dRZbfpy0/видео.html
Присутствует задержка ввода, обрати внимание
а вот для меня секрет как закапипастить кнопки на руль через 3 выхода А4, А5 и земля, это нужно в прошивку лазить или хватит будет просто спаять все как по схеме, кто вообще уже делал такой руль ? ато сделать хочу но в прошивках ардуино не шарю
The amazing job. However, the best thing is sharing everything. Thank you so much
это просто гениально, шикарная работа =)
Nice work! Very clean design. 👍👍
Super neat and tight work. Very inspiring!
This looks a hell durable and sturdy wheel.
Amazing you have clean work😂❤❤❤