hello guys,
does anyone have any idea on how to build a Formula 1 steering wheel that controls a small motor and have light and paddle shift?
i don't know if this is the right place to post this question but what i know is that everything is based on the arduino
You will have to be more specific
Are you asking about the acutal construction? I.e. Do you want to know how to bend DOM tubing into a circle? --How to make an injection mold and cast the grip material?
Controls a small motor? --When you tilt the steering wheel? Via switch? What does the motor do?
Same question for the paddle shift etc. --Are you looking to connect these paddle shifts etc to other things?
Does the light you require need to do anything?
Also, is there a robot brain involved?
ok guys i will explain
ok guys i will explain :
First:
i need to do a small project controlling a small car in a wireless way by making a shape of an F1 steering wheel but the important thing is not this shape things, it’s how to make the circuit and how to program it. the steering wheel must have LED like the actuel racing wheel LEDs indicates the RPM, the paddle shift must be just for fun here they should add 1 or substract 1 to a 7 segment display like it’s making a real up shift and down shift and of course steering the robot and a Formula 1 sound.
Second:
i need to know if i want to build a real one seater and add a steering wheel which i am building then how must this happen ?
the engine is a porsche boxter and with a sequentiel gearbox ? i know this sound a bit nuts but i need to know if it is possible to do it outside a factory !! i need to know because it’s my target one day !! you would ask why doing this ? i would say just for fun cz i like to do it
Ok, no problem.
It sounds like you simply want to get into electronics here, and that’s great. To get started however, you need to simplify a bit…
I would start the way we all started. Get an Arduino board and learn how to make a LED blink. After that, figure out a pushbutton. Then you can move on to controlling LED arrays like your tachometer. You will have to break your project up into much smaller steps and learn everything step-by-step. There are no shortcuts here, you just gotta learn it. --There will be no “connect this to this” tutorials out there for you to follow.
So again, get an Arduino, get a LED to blink and start learning code, my friend.
yes i did start, i did the
yes i did start, i did the LED this it’s been about a week when i really started with arduino then after that i got directly into wireless thing and after struggeling for a day i managed to make it work 
so i did programed it using tutorial stuff and my bit of knowledge because i got a course at uuniversity about programming PIC with mikrobasic so it wasn’t hard understanding the process
so i managed as i said to make a pushbutton turn a LED on using RF links, and of course a small DC motor
that’s where i got so far and i watched and understood some basic electronics from youtube about calculating the resistance in some advanced way, working with capacitors multimeter and all these stuff and of course i am still learning there is plenty of stuff … so what’s next now cz i need to move faster i don’t have much time, and i am learning very quickly because it’s been a year since reading and catching info from here and there so i can managed to understand now very quickly but i was confused before now better
