Making a "simple" button box...

Absolutely awesome!

 

this is awesome. im liking the beamng mug

 

probably a "hey you helped us with the game heres a free mug" which i rlly want bc that would be nice for my hot chocolate

 

beamng merch confirmed?

 

god i hope...
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still off topic, but a lazer-engraved beamng thing i did almost a year ago

 

Damn! That's sick.

 

Any chance you'd share schematics (if you did it that professionally lol) and price to build?

 

If those mugs were sold online somehow even in limited numbers I absolutely guarentee they would sell out very quickly. Very cool button box anyway

 

This is super impressive! Clean and thought it was an official product being fixed at first glance. If only all of the inputs were uniform for PCB mounting to make assembly easy! How'd you get the clean text next to the toggles and buttons?
Also 74HC595s or other shift registers can be used to create more inputs/outputs for a single microcontroller if adding more controllers becomes problematic.

 

Will you do some video showcase on it working? That would be really cool! But it also proves we're all starting to run out of buttons to bind for BeamNG lol

Also I dig that mug!

 

i'm really interested how you make the key work as a controller input. That a thing that I really want to craft, especially since BeamNG have ignition feature.
I've looked for real neiman car too, but no way to convert them in input switches.

 

A controller i'm dreaming about is a automatic shifter with PRND21, with a switcher in the 2, wich can become M with + an - beside it.
Like this, it could permitte to switch between D, 2/M and 1 and vice versa, removing the obligation to put on neutral for each selection.

Of course PRND2/M1 will be momentary buttons, while + and - will be push buttons.
And the automatic gearbox could also get some buttons to modifie the ESC State, maybe a simple button or a wheel selection like some Citroëns (C5 Aircross or C4 Cactus), another one to activate Sport mode and maybe later a button for Snow mode.

 

Okay, thank's for your precisions, i hoped that could be a "ready-to-use" key input (like a dimmer or a switch), instead off a full crafted homemade one.
Very beautiful work by the way! If you have crafted any others unique input or controller, please share them with us, they give some inspiration and a lot of motivation to try ourselves

 

Very Nice! where might some devoted fans be able to purchase BeamNG mugs like that?

 

I am thinking, do you think it could be possible to have a USB gearbox with force feedback ? Or it's more complicated than we thought ? Or it's another area of manufacturing than simple buttons ?

Like this, we could have better feeling of floating gear and a better experience of non-synchronized gearbox for the truck and old vehicles, because I've ask why the Gavril T-series doesn't come with the double declutch system, and someone of the team tell the fact they tried to do that, but it was complicated because of the USB gearbox in the market, which doesn't come with force feedback system.
And without this, it's difficult to simulate correctly the gearbox of a truck without feeling the knob trying to refuse being engaged, recquiering action of the double declutch for each gear change.

 

Shifters like this kinda exist but only work in very select games and are very expensive. It would take a lot of work to make it function properly in BeamNG.

 

I do some researches about a Force Feedback Shifter, and I found two things :
- First, a software named FFShifter wich convert any forcefeedback joystick to react as a shifter, but it's not perfect.
- Second, an active shifter named BASH Pro active h-shifter, wich uses a gate locking feature powered by real-time in-game telemetry data.
The active gearbox can simulate floating gears, adapt the force feedback depending of the car and the gearbox informations in-game, and have a truck simulation.
It has three types of gear changing, as H-dogbox, sequential mode and H-sync. I don't know, but maybe it could simulate non-synchronized gearbox, if it has a truck simulation.
Price : 1.170 €.