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Making a seat force feedback
wj2k3:
How about using a bass shaker. I am not sure what the force feedback signal looks like but it would seem possible to modify/amplify it to input into on of these.
shafor:
ding, ding, we have a winner.
ErikRuud:
The earlier versions of the Tesla Pods at the BattleTech centers had subwoofer built into the back of the seat. It was something like 14" wide.
It did a prety good job of providing feed back when your mech got hit. The ejection sequence was pretty impressive!
creatine28:
Found this, seems to be similiar to the base shaker thing.
It's on this page towards the bottom and it's only $10!
http://www.excess-solutions.com/closeouts.htm
Item ES2023 BWA-01 ExtraBass Body Woofer System
Xiaou2:
The bass shakers are truely awesome. I found an Aura bass shaker set with mini amps on ebay for less than 100$. Popped them under my pc chair... and fired mame up...
The results: At low volumes... the bass shake felt as powerfull as a 500 watt subwoofer at high volume! Setting the maximum power to the shakers resulted in me hardly able to view the monitor - because I was bouncing arround and made the screen appear to be shaking all over the place!
What makes it nice - is that you do not need the high volume to feel the power. .. whereas a subwoofer needs to move a lot of air to blast the bass vibrations. In many situations, theres actually more vibration from the shakers... because with a sub with low volume of air movement, you lose the impact. Bass shakers vibrate all the time... and you can feel every bit of it.
Obviouslty, a real powerfull motor to move the seat is completly a different experience. Out Runs shaker motor for instance, completely rocks. Maybe you could use the same type if setup as outrun.
Using a powerfull one direction motor, (and hacking a rumble pad) you could use a metal link arm... that moves the seat on a set of rails left to right rapidly. (simular to the old style trains)
However... remember that mame currently does not support Force Feedback yet : (
I highly doubt that 10$ jobbie would be sufficent or comparable to the power of a real bass shaker.
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