A shot of my new wheel

[Spoceto1003]

I have almost finished my second wheel build. The first wheel was made of plywood sandwiched between aluminium with only push button controls with gear paddle shifts.

My new wheel designed by myself and again inspired by Ferrari it is made of a plywood frame with fibreglass, I have a Leo Bodnar BU0836X card inside connected to 10 push buttons and 4 rotary encoders and 1 rotary switch, also have my SLI-M card inside.

I can alter the Brake Balance and Engine Revs from the 2 top rotarys, The purple is rotary switch which changes the Display, like Pit Display.Race Info. Engine Condition etc. I can alter the traction control and select Nuetral from the push buttons. The Green SCR rotary is to change up and down on the LCD displays and the Yellow INC rotary changes up and down the LCD inputs to change tyres etc for pit stops.

Soon I will post a video of it in action, but I have a few days of tweaking left to do, Then onto the next job.........The MONOCOQUE, I can't wait for that.:mrgreen:

[Hitman_M3]

Amazing! Congratulations for a job well done :thumbup:

[GTR Dude]

Outstanding job, I built my first wheel many moons ago....before FFB.

I could pull it out of the Closet and still use it right now. I highly encourage others to build a wheel. If you use the right materials, it'll last ten times longer than anything you could buy from the Sim-Wheel Company's. ;-)

[DurgeDriven]

Awesome :thumbup:

[Spoceto1003]

Thanks Guys for the really positive feedback on my wheel,
I hope it will inspire others to take a leap of faith and have a go at making thier own wheel..........If I can do it Anyone Can.

Thanks again

[Shinzah]

Outstanding job, I built my first wheel many moons ago....before FFB.

I could pull it out of the Closet and still use it right now. I highly encourage others to build a wheel. If you use the right materials, it'll last ten times longer than anything you could buy from the Sim-Wheel Company's. ;-)

Dunno about that, ARCWheels and Frex are very very well constructed.

And an ECCI will last forever if kept greased :laugh:

[GTR Dude]

Dunno about that, ARCWheels and Frex are very very well constructed.

And an ECCI will last forever if kept greased :laugh:



And how much are you going to pay for those wheels? I can (and have) built a wheel for 1/8 to 1/4 of the price that they sell their stuff for.

Plus, when you build your own your getting it the way YOU want it......it's unique....and you have the satisifaction of doing it yourself.

[Hitman_M3]

I hope it will inspire others to take a leap of faith and have a go at making thier own wheel

Actually I have started doing some experimenting myself with an old, broken Thrustmaster Force GT I had lying around. I have ripped off all the FF crap and cabling and have been busy screwing and cutting in the inside to convert it to non-FF with a set of springs. So far the concept seems to work very well and I am now studying the purchase of a LeoBodnard joystick card to wire everything to it.

Since the wheel is quite robust as it was constructed for FF (Lots of metal plates in the inside) and has nice design and grip, it might in the end make a good controller to play with. Meanwhile my black MOMO has finally given up completely and I am decided not to buy any FF wheel ever again, as I am fed up of them letting go and leaving you powerless and angry. I'm waiting now for a reply from Thomas Superwheels about shipping costs to Spain, but I will get one of their wheels for sure. This project I have could however make a good adition for racing against friends in my 2nd computer.

[Spoceto1003]

Hitman,
If you get a Leo Bodnar BU0836X joystick controller, you can run allsorts on it, and it is very easy to use with push cable connectors......I would recommend this to anyone.

[Hitman_M3]

That's the one I'looking at Spoceto :thumbup:

My idea is first to have it all working, then start thinking about making changes in the steering wheel like you did, though not in F1 but in GT style, maybe with a real MOMO wheel from a car. The good thing about doing your own wheel is that once you bit the bullet and start, you really can do anything you want, as there is no almost no limit like your own excellent job just showed.:mrgreen:

I will probably have to star with an ordinary potentiometer, but I will soon try to implement an optical one. I have the black MOMO one, but I need to figure how to wire it to the BU0836X, guess it's not possible directly. The ideal alternative is a linear polarizer, but that has only 90º and I need then to convert it to 270º with teeth wheels.

Oh well, one thing is for sure, if you get it working your joy and pride is exponentially better than with any commerical wheel!

[Maxsix]

Amazing job!!
Can I ask where you sourced the knobs?
Cheers

[Spoceto1003]

The coloured Chicken beak pointers came off of Ebay, They are normally listed in the Guitar Hi-Fi section.

Hope this helps :thumbup: