Thanos Motion Racing simulator in Athens Digital Week event

[DooDleMan14]

I Would like to see if the car flips over.

[geopouros]

ela dike mou poli dinato alla to link sou den doulevi pou mporoume alou na to doume?

[Obliterous]

Can you provide an updated link to instructions/info? the above link no longer works.

[nikostirfaka]

geia sou thano...exw mia logitech g27 kai thelw mia kataskeuh xwris kathisma...ti les???????

[tsurapiss]

oraios o paixtaras!!!!

[googleboughtmee]

Outrun did this in 1986 and only cost 20p a go

[aLargeTurd]

your monitor sux

[ironhidef1]

imagine off-roading with this thing, wowow i'm rolling over

[SkippyChurch]

@rigomrtsfx What do you mean it works with 360? How could it? There's no software that supports motion. Could you explain further, please? I'd love to do something like this if I could for my rig.

[trut52]

@SkippyChurch

This kind of configuration requires the game itself to be open-source as the driving signals (wheel spin velocity, etc...) cannot be reached from a normal simulator game.

Long story short, this cannot work with the consoles like 360.

[TheRafaelDesign]

Hi Thanos, here go my late congrats!

I'm wondering if you feel the asphalt rough and bumps like chicane or it's just the G forces?

Anyway your project is a piece of art!

[tronicgr]

@TheRafaelDesign Thank you! Yes, bumps and rough motion data are passed also on the motors in the degree that the game emulate them of course!!

[costateguise]

Nah

[MrBirzgalas]

i wonder when drifting whit this thing it starts to spin ? :D

[Str8representing]

How can I get this without being an engineer?

[killerbobby]

rapidshare link is down.

care to do a Megaupload?

[xribabis]

poso kanei ena tetio?

[tronicgr]

@xribabis Ti ennoeis? Etoimo den tha breis!!! Alla ta ylika tou kostizoun gyro sta 1000 euro.... Kai exo sxedia kai odigies sta link toy video... :-)

[nikostirfaka]

@tronicgr thelw ena skeleto gia g27

[Tossphate]

Truely inspiring. I am raising funds to attempt this. One question: would it be possible to have a 3-monitor surround setup, or would they colide with the frame as it moved diagonally forward?

Thanks

[idanrof22]

great work man! it images the G-forces on the driver, cool...!

[zaklinatel6]

help как можна зделать такой электро блок или купить

[TheWTFers]

are those pvc pipes?

[tronicgr]

WTF??? Yeah!! It is PVC pipes!!! :-)))

[TheWTFers]

lol, dang light weight.

[QuertrGTRR]

@tronicgr

PVC pipes, biggest bullshit for a simulator. Those small "wrong g-forces" produced by flex and swing of the tubes would get on my nerves! (i tried a simulator like yours) Everything good, but these PVC pipes... I will never understand it. I would wait another 3 months to get my simulator (if its about money for example) and buy metal to be able to build it stiff and strong. If you ever will try a well build simulator, you will burn this one done. This is a promise!

[tronicgr]

@QuertrGTRR Remember that I made all this at home with no tools and minimum budget... Home is no place to do power tools work. I still believe that PVC is more "home" friendly. Yeah, If I had money and a real workshop I would built a rocket too...

[Spright0]

wheres the airbags? and the racing belts =p

[fireslayer26]

The second link is not working...... Would like the DIY info.

[ersin9mm]

verysweet u smart ppl howmuch cost it?

[tronicgr]

Its cheap... All DIY so just the cost of materials. All work was done by me.

[AtherSpooner]

The sideways moves are toooo much!!! (sry for bad english)

[20samp]

Just simply awsome. i'm only 16 but already have aims to make something similar. have the majority of electronics working, just lack of other hardware for building the frame

[riproarious]

Looks like PVC tubing to me.

[audiojester]

This is my favorite racing simulator BY FAR. I wish the link worked so I could learn how to build this myself. I need a huge project... I spent about 8 hours researching this type of stuff today and I have concluded that this is the sweetest one.

[tronicgr]

Use the second link "ptyxiouxos...." ;-)

[diezvac]

@tronicgr:

hey, congrats!!! this is a increible job!!! I would like to build your simulator.. im trying to get into the page but isn't work, can you fix the link??? how can i get specific information about how to built it??? I really appreciate your help. thanks for your answer.

[tronicgr]

My site is down now because I could not afford to maintain it. I may get it back up again later. For now you can just download the DIY instructions from the third link there (rapidshare) thanos_site_offline.zip

Thanks

[CamNUFC]

now that seems like it would be a good simulator, representing g force i would imagine it would cost a lot to build or just buy one to the same standard. good vid

[hksMovies]

wow poly cool 8a i8ela kai egw ena tetoio

[DMONROY09]

a real f-1 race car doesn't move like that,it looks more like a f/s.i give it a "0"

[obzelite]

no shit einstein, you figured out yet it simulates forces experienced not the real moment of the car?

[tomrei]

i don't think it's been used to simulate how car moves, but rather by changing the direction of the gravitational force acting on a person to simulate the G force they would experience. that's why it rotate in the opposite direction of the steering wheel. and by rise the nose, it will give you an acceleration feeling and dip it make you feel decelerating (breaking). since the screen is fixed reference to player, he will feel like in a car in motion.

[triplea007]

It's not about how the actual simulator moves, but about the forces that the machine "simulates". If you were on this simulator in a pitch black room, you would feel pretty close as if you were on a real car.

[krupa35]

No way dude. That simulator is giving off like 2G pushes on a F1 Race car. F1's are built with such a great center gravity that they barley ever go over 1.5G forces through turns, braking, and accelerating. Your body doesn't tilt left and right in a car unless your on 2 wheels or you set on side of your strut, shocks, and springs to a negative damper. Drive a real race car, and then get into a simulator, tell me how much of a difference you feel.

[poopchunk3]

ok well pick a different car in the gmae or a different game. wow

[krupa35]

...thats not the point dude? lol

[kiemerick313]

please make this available so that I can buy it I know about fifty people that will buy it right now!!!!

[creepyJ78]

@kiemerick313 this dude is right make that 51 post a link or something for ordering info

[brucesinner]

dude, you know that you can sell this stuff a lot, don't you??? :)

[tronicgr]

I know... But why? How will be able to pay for my efforts after all?

[saxos23]

ti kanate re palikaria??? gamato!!!

[tronicgr]

Eyxaristo. Den einai kai tipota spoudaio... Ligo Mechatronics einai (Mhxanikh, Hlektroniki kai Rompotikh epistimi) !!!

Thanos

[Manny32V]

FUCK IM GETTING THIS SHIT!

[tronicgr]

LMAO! From where??  :-D

[Manny32V]

LOL i dont know but i have to get it

[tronicgr]

If you can get one, tell me cause I'm too bored to build myself another... LMAO !!!!

[justplaindumb101]

That's just cool.

[Michael2k5x911]

thats just stupid lol

[christofer128]

stupid simulator...the car doesnt behave like this

[0tic]

it trys to simulate the g force. u fucking asshole

[gabman6]

owned

[tronicgr]

Maybe you mean, you were pwned??? ;-))

[pakkinen]

I don´t understand why it swings around when you are going in a straight

[eotinanai]

instant response efxaristw.

Tha to tsekarw an kai den kserw kata poso epitygxanetai me ti sigkekrimeni kataskeuh i epitaxinsi tis barititas (plaka kanw)

[eotinanai]

lol "Ela Pare k Ena Kontino to Frape Dipla Stin Karta"

Dld ti kostos na ypologizw gia ena homemade racing simulator ?

[tronicgr]

Hehe, eixame pei3ei stoys kafedes ekeines tis meres tou ADW event !!!

Auto pou blepeis exei kostos se ylika peripou 800 euro ! Alla einai polyploko stin kataskeyh mias kai einai Full Motion kai mporei na xrhsimopoihthei kai gia Flight Simulators...

Alla yparxei kai alli ftini lysh me simulator poy tha kinhtai mono to kathisma, gia peripou 400euro mono se kostos gia ta ylika!!

An se ediaferei ela sto x-simulator forum na sou deikso ti mporeis na ftiakseis monos sou kai ftina!

Thanos

[smoothrider900]

epeidi ta agglika m einai einai ligo gtp.. an katalaba kala esu eftia3es auto to simulator ??

[tronicgr]

Hehe, nai! Stin perigrafi you video exo kai link gia to site mou poy perigrafo pos na ftiakseis ena monos sou!!! :-)

[eDD77s]

awesome!i love your setup!

...for me the best biy simulator ever ;) such inventive!

did you try trackIR with your simulator?

[tronicgr]

Actually I had the TrackIR4Pro with trackclip in the show, but since the rear-end of the simulator was facing the entrance the sun light was making it impossible to use it during most of the day. As much lucky I was, by having my simulator placed in front of the entrance and it was the first thing that everyone was noticing as the waled in show area, I was unlucky with TrackIr sensor...

Thanos

[eDD77s]

oh, that´s unlucky ;(

...and if i only had watched to your other vids, to older ones, the question would be unnecessary :)

[thrasher467]

very nice job, do u have a video of the first place winner?

[tronicgr]

No, I don't have video for the first place winner, cause it was given to a team of students with various projects (Tei Peiraia, Automation). I'll try to locate some of them and give links... :-)

[jvandervalk]

very cool!