Community's Driver Seats [homecockpit thread]
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cowhand214
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Re: Community's Driver Seats [homecockpit thread]
@Leen I had to laugh at "when hard braking the office chair takes me for a ride". It took me a minute, but I totally get it. Same thing happened to me last night. My current living arrangements don't allow for a nice setup like yours but that will be something to aspire to. Looking good!
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Poptart
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Re: Community's Driver Seats [homecockpit thread]
Hey guys! I have been a long time player of ETS2 and play my fair share of ATS, and wanted to share my little driving station. I started my love for the game playing my friend's custom PC with a keyboard when I only had a laptop, then when I got my own PC, I installed the game in 2014, and I played on keyboard for a while. I then upgraded to an Xbox 360 controller for about a year, then in 2015 I finally got a racing wheel. Then last summer I made a DIY 18 speed 18 speed shifter, basically a ghetto SKRS. Not pictured here is a DIY infrared head tracker I made using Freetrack and a PS3 eye, since I am still ironing out the kinks in it. ETS2 definitely has the most play time allocated for my wheel, as I play other racing sims. I have about 730 hours in ETS2, and 75 hours in ATS and plan on logging more hours on it. My next project is to make a PVC cockpit this summer and intend on sharing it upon it's completion
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lclc
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Re: Community's Driver Seats [homecockpit thread]
Hi everybody, I play ets2 for a long time and I want to present you my setup. Before buying a Logitech G29, I had a Thrustmaster T100 which was not very good. I have 2 screens : one for simulation's games and one fore others. I use 2 "mini-keyboards" realised by my brother. There are very useful. 
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La meilleure map ets2 française : Grand Utopia.
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Captain Squareyez
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Re: Community's Driver Seats [homecockpit thread]
Hey guys, so, here is my cockpit. 
It doubles as a driving sim cockpit but also a flight sim cockpit.
It's made out of mostly MDF, 4x2 timber for supports and better wood to screw into and secure than mdf. MDF is about 12mm, except top shelf i made using 14mm for a bit of extra support for the steering wheel, but also has i think it was 6x2 timber going across it underneath to help stop the shelf from bowing as well.
I cut the top shelf down the middle, and hinged it, to make it easier to get to the pedals to swap them out whenever i wanted to, rather than getting under the shelf in my aging body lol.
I browsed heaps of other sim cockpits online and took ideas from a few different methods to make my own.
It needed to be able to breakdown easy enough if i have to move house, so it breaks down to 6 pieces by just unscrewing a few screws.
I went through a few alterations during and after build. During, because i thought of different things to make it better, and after mainly because the car seat i originally purchased was not at all comfortable (Avoid Hyundai car seats, far too hard. For my taste any way, specially if you sit in it for a long period of time.)
In the end, i decided, well, my armchair is comfortable, and if i'm playing say, F1, or iRacing, for example, then i will feel like i am in a racing car. So, had to make alterations after i designed it and made it to allow room for my arm chair to fit in. Which was just basically making it a bit wider than originally planned.
This first photo is to show how the cockpit is setup for a flight sim. You can also see one of the hinges just above the mouse pad in the middle of the top shelf(bit of the metal exposed). ( I sometimes remove the steering wheel, but it's not necessary. It's held on by a clamp.) The second photo is to show how the cockpit is setup for a driving sim. All i have to do, is slide the throttle forward out of the way, and then slide the gear selector into place, re-attach the steering wheel(if i have removed it while playing flight sims, which is not necessary in this setup), take out 4 screws that hold the joystick in place and put my mouse pad up in its place. Then unlatch the flight pedals and place the driving pedals in its place. Both sets of pedals are mounted to a piece of ,MDF about 8mm thick, then i have 2 gate latches mounted on the sides that stops the pedals from sliding and tipping while i use them. Picture 3 is of how i currently have it now since i bought 3 monitors. The shelf they are sitting on is temporary until i get monitor arms. The arms, when i get them, will be mounted to the cockpit and the shelf will be gone. The PS camera at top of middle monitor, is for the headtracker. Slightly different angle. You can see the other hinge in the top shelf. Plus how i painted the sides. For the boxes that house the throttle and gear shifter, i bought some carbon fibre look wrap rather than painting them to make it look neater, which it did. I used the same wrap on the little storage compartment that's mounted on the door below the mouse pad/joystick stand.
About the only other thing i want to add to it, apart from the monitor arms, is some LED lights inside the footwell. They are inexpensive, easy to set up and i think it would make the cockpit look much better.
It's done in midnight blue and cherry red.
And if you're wondering, the chair is on on small metal castor wheels to easily pull the chair in and out.
Hope you like it
It doubles as a driving sim cockpit but also a flight sim cockpit.
It's made out of mostly MDF, 4x2 timber for supports and better wood to screw into and secure than mdf. MDF is about 12mm, except top shelf i made using 14mm for a bit of extra support for the steering wheel, but also has i think it was 6x2 timber going across it underneath to help stop the shelf from bowing as well.
I cut the top shelf down the middle, and hinged it, to make it easier to get to the pedals to swap them out whenever i wanted to, rather than getting under the shelf in my aging body lol.
I browsed heaps of other sim cockpits online and took ideas from a few different methods to make my own.
It needed to be able to breakdown easy enough if i have to move house, so it breaks down to 6 pieces by just unscrewing a few screws.
I went through a few alterations during and after build. During, because i thought of different things to make it better, and after mainly because the car seat i originally purchased was not at all comfortable (Avoid Hyundai car seats, far too hard. For my taste any way, specially if you sit in it for a long period of time.)
In the end, i decided, well, my armchair is comfortable, and if i'm playing say, F1, or iRacing, for example, then i will feel like i am in a racing car. So, had to make alterations after i designed it and made it to allow room for my arm chair to fit in. Which was just basically making it a bit wider than originally planned.
This first photo is to show how the cockpit is setup for a flight sim. You can also see one of the hinges just above the mouse pad in the middle of the top shelf(bit of the metal exposed). ( I sometimes remove the steering wheel, but it's not necessary. It's held on by a clamp.) The second photo is to show how the cockpit is setup for a driving sim. All i have to do, is slide the throttle forward out of the way, and then slide the gear selector into place, re-attach the steering wheel(if i have removed it while playing flight sims, which is not necessary in this setup), take out 4 screws that hold the joystick in place and put my mouse pad up in its place. Then unlatch the flight pedals and place the driving pedals in its place. Both sets of pedals are mounted to a piece of ,MDF about 8mm thick, then i have 2 gate latches mounted on the sides that stops the pedals from sliding and tipping while i use them. Picture 3 is of how i currently have it now since i bought 3 monitors. The shelf they are sitting on is temporary until i get monitor arms. The arms, when i get them, will be mounted to the cockpit and the shelf will be gone. The PS camera at top of middle monitor, is for the headtracker. Slightly different angle. You can see the other hinge in the top shelf. Plus how i painted the sides. For the boxes that house the throttle and gear shifter, i bought some carbon fibre look wrap rather than painting them to make it look neater, which it did. I used the same wrap on the little storage compartment that's mounted on the door below the mouse pad/joystick stand.
About the only other thing i want to add to it, apart from the monitor arms, is some LED lights inside the footwell. They are inexpensive, easy to set up and i think it would make the cockpit look much better
. It's done in midnight blue and cherry red.
And if you're wondering, the chair is on on small metal castor wheels to easily pull the chair in and out.
Hope you like it
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nicky9499
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Re: Community's Driver Seats [homecockpit thread]
Nothing crazy, just a humble and aging G25. Bought a G920 shifter recently to prolong its lifespan and found that since at least 2 positions can still be reliably read on the old shifter, I made a twin stick setup by going into the configs to separately detect range/splitter as switch/button respectively.
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neo84942011
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Re: Community's Driver Seats [homecockpit thread]
How u make this have u got plans I can pinch this is what I'm talking about lol
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klauzzy
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MSTrucker
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BrandonW77
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Up until about a month ago it's always been a racing rig but now it seems to have become a full-time truck-driving rig. I play in VR so it doesn't much matter what it looks like but I think it looks nice and the trucking games finally got me motivated to figure out how to get my CSW DSD button box to work with my T300 which works a treat and looks the business. And of course I've got my toy trucks addition to my diecast collection started! 
Don't have the fancy truck shifter yet but maybe Santa will bring me one.
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oyunseyir
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Re: Community's Driver Seats [homecockpit thread]
This is my handmade cockpit too. Based on Logitech DFGT and Kontorland wheels. Making custom shifter modelling by metal. Table is custom for this system. Kontorland electronic board using for custom shither's contackts. 2 Lada Samara swithers ( Signals and cleaners) mounted DFGT's main body. A 3D model using for custom whell mount. Whell is original sport car whell. Also contact key and emergency light is Honda Motor's original parts. 2 Tablets for using dasboard, map and android tape For the telemetry, Sim Dashboard software is used. All deck is covered carbon fiber straps. This is my V1.0 I hope will be growing next times
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