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Home Built 3-DOF Flight Simulator (Low Cost)

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Uploaded by on Oct 26, 2010

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.

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  • @SurfALot774 Quote from description: "all controlled by a Linux system running the flight simulator: FlightGear)." ;)

  • hi! Great work!! How do you actually make your hardware interact with Flight Simulator? are you using FSX?

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