Hello,
If you’ve ever been to a big arcade, chances are you have rode in one of the 4D simulators.
This is what I’m trying to re-create at home.
I have a lot of learning ahead of me but hoping you bright minded engineers can get me headed in the right direction.
I’m pretty handy with my hands when it comes to building things but this is a little beyond my expertise but willing to put in the wrench time and probably coding time as well.
Here is what I think I will need to make the chair pitch and roll and shake (to mimick flying, crashing, climbing, turning). Primary use will be for watching movies so I will have to watch a movie, take notes on when significant things happen (like wind, so I can activate a fan to blow to simulate wind) (explosions, will need to simulate vibration) (Falling off a cliff, will need to pitch the chair hard down to simulate falling and vise-verca when an airplane climbs or a car jumps)
List of possible supplies/programs/education needed:
4 - Linear actuators
1 - Software program to potentially write and store the code (not sure how to write code) and ability to hit a start button allowing the program to actuate/start and run automatically on specific time points without being at the desk (ie. start the movie and program simultaneously
1- Controller to distribute the signal to the specified actuator and signal to the tactical transducers (already have 2 Aura shakers)
4 - Transmitters (1 per actuator)
4 - Receivers (1 per actuator)
Steel square tube for bracing / bushings or bearings / possibly ball-joints (these will be used to building the platform to place the seat on. Alternatively, might just mount the actuators directly to the seats with ball joints and create the hard platform on the ground.
So my biggest questions…
]What program would I need to store and run time enabled activities that could activate the actuators/transducers/motion/wind…etc?/:m]
]How to turn the signal into an electrical signal to activate everything and control the speed of the actuators so different activities have different forces/:m]
