idea for attaching pedals

[bdsjake]

in the projects forum, NY to TX has a great cab with 2 360 steering wheels attached.  Had an idea for pedals attached to bottom of cab.  Bought a Thrustmaster Nascar T2, has metal pedals,  Thinking about mounting them vertically, sticking out of a small slot at bottom front of cab.  Maybe hack the two pots to separate axises on a dual stike?  The goal is 2 player sprint, offroad and other 360 games.

The Formulas have a plastic shaft for the wheel that has a lot of friction, so the steel shaft in the Thrustmaster Chargers I think will still be better for the wheels.

here is before picture

[bdsjake]

here's a pic of the back, showing metal plate which i hope will be mount sturdy

[bdsjake]

and one final pic showing it mounted to board as a test.  Thinking of separating the pedals so p1 & p2 each have a gas pedal.

[Sasquatch!]

and one final pic showing it mounted to board as a test.  Thinking of separating the pedals so p1 & p2 each have a gas pedal.

Interesting..especially separating out the two pedals.  Definitely let us know how it works!

[night]

is super sprint/off road just a spinner ?
cuz i remember whipping those wheels around like 10 times just to make a U-turn in the arcade.

[SirPoonga]

night is right.  I am confused as you have analog wheels but you refer to 360 games?

What sucks about wheels is you can have analog wheel/analog pedals, analog wheel/button pedals, optical wheel/analog pedals, optical wheel/buttons pedals for arcade games.

I plan on just having two optical wheels, two pedals, and 2 4 way shifters (which cna double as two ways).  I plan on using my twistygrip yoke for 280 games.  And I wouldn't have analog pedals, I rarely am not pushing all the way down ona  pedal anyway

[bdsjake]

sorry for confusion, I am planning to hack the wheels to make them spin as 360's, like "NY to TX" in the projects forum.

[SirPoonga]

Too bad oscarcontrols doesn't have the wheel anymore.

[Lilwolf]

Good luck on the hack.  

Another option is to search ebay.  I got a bunch of wheels (polepostitions and a few others) really cheap.  Basically paid for shipping...

Of course the shipping sucked and they all broke their encoder wheels... Need to contact Oscar.

[NY_in_TX]

BDSJAKE,  man looks good!

Gotta give m some more detail on how your finishing that out.  I have to admit, I've stalled out on finishing out my details.   I've got 2 sets of pedals waiting to be hooked up and just haven't done the tinkering.  My first idea was just to work around the pots and hook a micro switch into the pedal assembly and hook that into the IPAC.  Basiclly that's the way I play Off road now... 1 hand on wheel and 1 hand on buttons (holding down gas and mashing the nitros)


Night & SirP, the PC wheels are just used for looks.  The guts are basically a trackball.

ny