Force feedback for rudder

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Originally Posted by Azimech

I'm interested in your design, do you have any pictures and a description? I'm building my own pedals, currently without force feedback in the design but I might alter it if I like the idea and support appears.

I don't have any pictures, but I can describe it a little.

The main construction is from the mechano-like office shelving supports. The construction is simple with a single pivot on a bearing stack salvaged from some industrial machinery.
Feet go into some simple straps, ww1 style.
There is a small grove on the pivot's bearing stack with a flexible bit of plastic that gives the rudder a small 'click' that you can feel with your feet when the rudder is centered. It also gives a kind of physical dead zone, which I like.

The whole thing is bolted to the floor as that's the only way I can get it to stop moving about.

The bare-bones of the MSSFFB1 sit behind the rudder construction.
There are no sensors on the pivot or any other part of the main construction, instead there are two wires that are attached to the MSSFFB1's aileron axis. So when the rudder bar is moved, the MSSFFB1's aileron axis is pulled left/right by the wires.

The MSSFFB1's FFB system is disconnected from it's stick and simply reconnected to the rudder bar quite close to the pivot.


It was a super simple build, mostly done to test things, rather than as a thing to use for long, although I did use it for a few months.