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Retractable (Driving) controls?
jdjuggler:
If made carefully, I don't believe the turning would be heavy.
Just to let you know, I don't care much for the "modular" idea either. Personally, with your design, I think the entire mechanism sitting below the CP would be obtrusive. Also, while sitting at the cabinet, the steering wheel may be in the way- (Although I'm 6'7").
I'm sure that your drawing wasn't to scale, but you may want to check the overhang of your control panel to see if the entire steering wheel and extension arm will actually fit below the CP.
An alternative to my design, would be to put the encoder with the steering wheel, but then you would have an to disconnect the wheel and the circuit for the encoder.
JD
Silver:
Yes you've hit my concern number 2 - its not good having it out the way if its in the way of legs etc...etc...
The drawing is 100% not to any scale, I don't have a cab yet, and was a quick concept sketch.
I think it would only really work with a large overhang cp, or even a cp 'table' with a solid support/leg in the middle with players sitting either side like some showcase cabs I've seen.
I also think my basic idea would be rather ugly to look at it.
An alternative would be to have a flip-down wheel, coming out of the cp. Would be more fiddly as pic implies as all encoder wheel/backing would have to be in same flipping unit, forcing the whole cp too be bigger at least from underneath. Height of wheel would also mean its lower - maybe sitdown only for driving??
Danger here is people pushing down hard on the wheel snapping off the flip-part of the CP. Hmmm.
Silver:
Thinking about things a bit more, a more realistic idea of my (theoretical) CP would be like the attached - I need the base clsoe to the feet so that the pedals can be easily reached when driving....
Unless of course you have to sit to drive, in which case having it further back is ok.
It also opens up idea of having a centre stand, where I thuoght the coin door could go, and use that to store the wheel - although the issue of how to retract still remains. Althuogh jdjuggler's idea could work here.....
Dougmeister:
Sorry I don't have the URL, but I picked up one of those NASCAR Thrustmaster Steering Wheels on eBay for fairly cheap. It is the kind that attaches to your desk with a screw clamp.
My thought was to have a 1" lip or so on my control panel then just clamp that sucker on when I want to play a driving game.
May have to angle it so that the lip is level if the control panel is angled downward, etc.
Thoughts?
Silver:
It's a good workaround if you just have a pc wheel, which is fine for the 270 games. I want to avoid any kind of plugging if possible but maybe I am being unrealistic or need to go for some mammouth controller.
I have original arcade controls I plan to use - a 360 Sega Turbo wheel as well as a 270 yoke, so that kind of rules out the cheap pc option. Couldn't bear the thought of wasting them.....
Thanks for the idea though.
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