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Arya Ebrahimi

Arya Ebrahimi

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I wanna see what the chair does when he hits the wall at 130 :lol:

 

:laughing:

 

That's exactly what I was thinking! However, I would LOVE to have one of these! Totally badass! I've often wondered if something like this existed.

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Do you suppose they would send one over the pond so I could have a test drive before making a decision on whether to buy it?

That would be pretty sweet I think.

 

Here are a few more:

 

http://www.simcraft.com/ (starts at $24,995)

http://www.simxperience.com/Home/tabid/37/language/en-US/Default.aspx (starts at $2,500)

http://www.virtualgt.com/ (starts at $17,995)

http://www.cxcsimulations.com/ (starts at $32,000)

7evin

7evin

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That is what they call a 3 axes motion system.

It would be way more effective if you had

it enclosed so you did not get visual cues from your surroundings.

Pretty dang cool though.

 

I spent 18 years working in the in the world of flight simulation.

I have worked on Simulators that cost more than 30 million...

Those are very real... :)

 

If you are serious about building one let me know I'll share what I know..

sparecr

sparecr

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Buddy of mine works with the SimCraft people and that simulator is amazing. They have had it at the track running iRacing software for the IRL, Indy Light and Grand Am drivers. It is amazing to hear how close the drivers feel the thing is.

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JohnK

JohnK

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The idea here is that, beyond the thrill of spending some time in a simulator, the behaviour of the car has been modeled mathematically, and rendered in software to generate the movements of the model. The model specifies the movements that the robot will perform when the human operates the controls. That means that, if you build and connect all the pieces of the model correctly, you can then deliver specs which you can use to construct a car whose behaviour will be that specified by the model.

 

A simpler example: Chrysler developed a system that can specify an entire car in 3D - every nut and bolt and dimension. Once they got the system correct, they turned the developers/designers loose on it and came up with a complete spec for the what would be sold as the Viper. They were able to produce the car in an incredibly short period of time since the model defined all the pieces. They just handed the files to the engineers and said "Please build this."

 

Closer to home and even simpler, I designed a complete brake system for my Se7en, from scratch, that would fit my Fiero spindles and allow me to run 13" wheels. After I did the work of calculating the dimensions, mechanical advantages, weight transfer and coefficient of frictions needed to make the brakes work as they're supposed to, I used a CAD package to specify the rotors, calipers, hats, mounting brackets and wheels. The CAD package allowed me not only to specify the dimensions of each part, but to create the entire assembly as it would exist on the chassis, i.e. to show clearance and interference. Using the drawings/specs from the CAD package, I ordered the parts from 4 different suppliers and when everything showed up, they all bolted together perfectly. Without the CAD package, it would have taken forever to get the same result and cost much much more.

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