As a senior project in High School (2003), I designed and built a fully functional 3-degree-of-freedom flight simulator with my friend Katie. The motion platform was constructed from three linear electric actuators and home-built position sensors. The actuators were powered by three computer controlled (GPIB/IEEE-488) HP power supplies in concert with an HP VXI/GPIB data acquisition-and-control unit (E1301B), all controlled by a Linux system running the flight simulator: Flight Gear (www.flightgear.org). FYI with borrowed equipment and three used actuators from Pacific Industrial Supply, the whole project cost less than $100.
@SurfALot774 Quote from description: "all controlled by a Linux system running the flight simulator: FlightGear)." ;)
FlightGearNL 11 months ago
hi! Great work!! How do you actually make your hardware interact with Flight Simulator? are you using FSX?
SurfALot774 1 year ago