/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Here are the previous build threads:

Thread 1:
https://archive.installgentoo.net/cgi-board.pl/diy/thread/380959

Thread 2:
https://archive.installgentoo.net/cgi-board.pl/diy/thread/405802

Thread 3:
https://archive.installgentoo.net/cgi-board.pl/diy/thread/412785

To anyone who hasn't seen this before, here's a tl;dnr: For my ICAM senior thesis project for my studies at UCSD, I set out to build a working 'battlemech' cockpit, complete with control panels, joysticks, pedals, and surround sound system, as well as code my own simulation to run in it. The project took two quarters of school (about six months total). The first three months were mostly spent building the cockpit, and the second three were spent mostly coding the simulation in C# through the Unity game development engine.

Total new materials cost in the ballpark of $1,000, not including existing crap I had laying around the garage and my own desktop computer that I ran the thing with.

>>547653
>>547652

Nice job OP. This looks great. Wish those archived pics were full size.

I'm not gonna repost a bunch of pictures from the old threads (because there are a crapton), though maybe I'll try to put together an album of them on imgur or something.

This project was intense because I was basically banking my future on it. I poured my heart and soul into this thing for six months straight with the intent of using it as a sort of "physical business card" that I could show as a kind of culmination of all of my abilities from coding and fabrication. I like to think of myself as a "generalist," so I needed a project that spanned across several disciplines.

Long story short, the gamble paid out. My professor/advisor for the project was Sheldon Brown, Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD. At first he was skeptical when one of his students said he wanted to basically 'make a video game and an (impossible-to-complete-alone-in-six-months) simulator box, but a few weeks before the end of the project I was showing him the progress I had made on the simulation side and he simply offered me a job working at the Experimental Game Lab at UCSD. I've been employed there since July, making crazy experimental genetic/evolution/algorithmically-driven simulations of early life. It's awesome, and at the end of the day (or the beginning, as I usually choose my own hours), I get to go home and continue working on my battlemech game and other projects.

>>547654
Thanks. I still have them all in full-res... I'll get around to organizing them and uploading them somewhere within a few days.

I have decided to retire the cockpit (as it is massive and, honestly, could have been built much better) (well, with more time... for basically three months I am quite proud of it) but continue working on the simulation as a stand-alone game. I found during development that the best way to get the game and the cockpit to agree with each other was to basically simulate the cockpit inside the game, complete with buttons and switches and displays, and then have the inputs from the cockpit controls simply control the simulated controls in the game... what this led to was a mouse-and-keyboard controlled mech simulator (along the lines of all those crazy German simulator games) that was actually a hell of a lot of fun to play around with. So, I've been working on making the game a full-fledged PC title.

I will have a playable web-release beta you guys can check out within a few days. You gotta promise not to spread it around too much though as it's running off of my friend's webserver. :]

The game has come a hell of a long way. Mechs are basically fully functional, including giving commands to AI 'wingmen' and fighting against somewhat intelligent enemies. I've been doing absolutely everything myself, from design to coding to 3D modelling. Again, I'll have a playable build online within a few days.

I'm also the guy behind this piece of shit...

And also this thing! (Yes I do wear it once in a while, especially when we have important people visiting the game lab.)

Yes, yes, very nice. Keep up the good work, OP!

I wish I had neighbors like you.

>>547652
Awesome! I loved your entire concept and I'm glad it paid off for you.

>>547667
>doesn't blank out license plate number
Enjoy your life ruination

>>547652
Can you upload some of the pics from the archive?
they look cool as fuck but i only get 404 when trying to view them.
really impressive work OP!

>>547673
>>547674
>>547678
Thanks guys!

The archive only saves the thumbs. I'll work on uploading everything... maybe I'll have that up by tonight. What's a good site for uploading mass collections of images?

>>547677
>"What are you gonna do, stab me?"
>"Yes?"

>>547685
I think the most convenient method would be to put the images you want to upload in a .rar and upload it to mediafire, or something similar

>>547656
oh fuck man congratulations on the job

Here's one of the only pics taken at the exhibition, haha.


>>547691
Uploading them to imgur right now. Should be done soon!

>>547696
Cheers!

>>547696
Is that a functional zip?

>>547668
I remember something like that being on hack a day a while ago. It's way better. Are you the same person and have you improved it? I have the same external battery as you do, it's very nice. It has a great torch, looks like you also use it, which is very great in your design.

I have been also thinking about doing something like that, but my mobile phone doesn't have a cool sportband which I can get like that.

Do you have a blog? You do many interest things, I would like to follow your projects.

>>547652
out of curiosity, how stable is the Unity project? I'm working on a game and have a crapload of assets, a lot more than I use normally. how well does it hold up?

>>547727
Nope, that wasn't me. Do you have a link to that project page? I'd like to see it.

My phone doesn't have a sportband either--what I did was get a rubbery case for it that I could cut slits into the back of and run nylon webbing through them.

I actually went ahead and finished setting up a website for myself so that I could host all of the archived images. Here's my site (it's very rough and stupid at the moment, but it has the pictures up there):

http://weshawkins.com/projects/orbital-decay/

I'm gonna work on populating the site over the next few days, including an Orbital Decay demo. :]


>>547732
The project holds up really well, though bear in mind I have now been working on the game for about 8 months now, so I've had time to optimize and work out bugs.

I have a few tricks for handling large numbers of assets... hit me up on the 'contact' page of my website (above) and I'd be happy to chat with ya. :]


<--- Glory shot of myself at the game lab at UCSD.

>>547749
Sure, I have it on bookmarks. http://hackaday.com/2012/10/22/were-this-close-to-a-real-pip-boy/
Nice and cheap idea, I'll maybe replicate it some day. It's a nice watch.
I don't know if yours have, but the link one turns the screen depending on the inclination, it's a great idea and it's not difficult to implement.

I have added your blog to my RSS reader, that way I'll read all your entries from now on. Your work is great.

Hey OP
Did you construct the cockpit at the UCSD woodshop? I'm trying to get access, but I don't know if it's limited to art majors only.

>>547755
Yeah, that was really simple... the tilt-on app is pretty neat. I'll have to look for that.

Cheers!

>>547757
No, I fabricated it at home. I really couldn't tell you, sorry! Good luck!

AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME!

I'm so glad that everything worked out and that all the progress paid off. Congrats on the job.
Keep up the good work!

>>547668
was thinking of doing something like this any advice?

>>547677
>implying we didnt get his license plates, adress, gf and cat name, and offroad routes on day 1.

We love this guy. Hey op, did you receive my chocolates and flowers?

>>547900
Thanks dood! I'm stoked. It's awesome having stable income with which to afford to make more cool stuff.

>>547917
Find a stiff rubber case for your phone and cut slits in the back of it wide enough to fit nylon webbing through. Attach some buckles to the webbing. Make some kind of pad to go between the buckles and your skin so you don't pinch yourself, and you're golden. Attached a pic of the way I did the buckles for ya.

>>547925
Mimi ate the flowers but the gf and I enjoyed the chocolates. ' u '

I'm finishing up populating the project pages on my site, then I'll get that Orbital Decay webplayer up and running.

>>547948
you should come and say hi to the AGDG sometime
>>52144463

>>548002
wow, i suck at cross board linking
>>>/vg/52144463

>>547749
What the... why is your monitor on its side?

>>547948
Noooo! Don't eat the flowers, Mimiga! Don't do it!

>>547652
There's a chance there's a market for a device like that. It'd need to be more polished off of course and support a wide array of similar games. I'd love to have a version for Arma games.

Now all you need to do if bring it to the next level: gimbling. Being able to move the entire unit based on the action happening in the game. It'd be like those old roller coaster rides they used to have in malls which you sat in a machine that looks like yours and it moved as you watched the screen.

>>548018
Programmers do that to see more of the code at once.

>>548074
Not only them, I also have two. It's very handy, it's a little weird at the beginning but after having two is difficult to return to one. It raises a lot the productivity.
Some people have even three.
I have a 14.5" screen (laptop) and a 19" one. When I go out with my laptop and I left my secondary screen at home, I miss it a lot.

>>548002
I'll drop by... looks like a fun place haha.

>>548018
This isn't even my FINAL FORM!

>>548039
I... I understood that reference. I feel old.

>>548049
So a lot of people have said... my brother and I are going to possibly rebuild it as a skeletal aluminum frame on actuators, possibly rigged up with Occulus Rift.

>>548108
I feel cramped with less than three... I'm ruined.

>>548018

Most new monitors are 16:9 format. Which is absolutely shit for everything but watching television. For some reason it has become standard. Vertical screen real estate is what you want when you write code or browse the web or a lot of other things.

Most software (e.g. browsers) furthermore has navigation panes etc. at the top or bottom of the screen so that all that is left is a small rectangle in the middle of the screen. Don't get me started on modern monitor design.... For the last three weeks I have been working of my laptop without my normal dual monitor setup. I am crying inside.

Thumbs up to battlemech dude. I have followed the other threads and am glad to see you are doing well.

>>547667
I'm remembering you mostly because of this awesome abomination of a car. You Sir, are awesome.

>>548196

Also, Trank.

>>547749
Oi, sent you a message!

>>548157

Don't worry, I only discovered that game last month, so don't feel old.

>>548185
A lot of monitors and video cards allow for vertical or horizontal orientation. When I had a 24" I'd rotate it vertically while playing SHUMPS. It was godly.

>>548234
Ctrl + Alt + Left(or right) arrow makes this easy

>>548271
It depends on your operating system.

>>547652
WHOOO HE'S BACK

hey man, I was the guy who suggested some startup sequence choreography (badass POST with iron maiden playing, etc.), did you ever implement any?

>>547667
I remember that thing I was in that /o/ thread where they were all like hurdur you can't off road a front wheel drive car, well, that's basically very /o/ thread you were in wasn't it, anywho, Cool Shit!

>>548336
>hurdur you can't off road a front wheel drive car

Sounds like a bunch of people that have never driven before. lol

I'm really freakin' happy for you, OP.

What are you going to do with the cockpit when you "retire" it, and is there any chance we could see a video of it in action before then?

>>548336

Have they never heard of rally or Saab before?

Not that I expect less from the "hurr durr wrong wheel drive" type.

>>548185
Thanks man! Means a lot.

>>548196
>>548198
Cheers! It's hard focusing my attention on one project at a time... I wish I could work on my car, Orbital Decay, Trank, and the other dozen projects I've started all at once, haha. I'll be putting some information up for Trank on my website sometime soon. Maybe I'll try to whip up a playable demo.

>>548202
Oi, replied to your message! ' u '

>>548206
All right cool, hahaha. An excellent game though. Cave Story is one of the games that inspired me to become a game dev.

>>548234
Vertical is the way to go on SHUMPS. Must've been on awesome on that 24".

>>548312
I did, sort of, in fact! For the "exhibition build" of the game, the player had the choice of doing practice mode, a story mission, or a quick skirmish; If they picked skirmish, they got the song "I Can Kick Your Ass" by Cliff Martinez playing as they fired up their mech. I'll try to remember to put it in the webplayer build I'm putting together for you guys. :]

>>548336
I was in an /o/ thread? I wasn't even aware, haha. I don't even want to know what those numbnuts were saying about my car.

>>548356
Thanks man! Probably going to scrap it for parts to build the next version... I will try to get a video of it in action, though it is a hell of a PITA to get it all hooked up. Takes about two hours to get the monitor installed and everything synced up with my desktop comp.

For you guys though, maybe I'll get around to it. :]

>>548372
redo it metal and you have a money machine
get in contact with a game dev that does mech games to make a game around your controls

you have an arcade game that makes money
you could step it up the next level and add movement to the entire unit like rising and falling as the mech steps maybe even tilt if you fall over in your mech or something
strap in and its a full on ride

>>548336
I remember that original thread, too. /o/ isn't typically very helpful.

That said, I was one of the naysayers. Cool art car, but an awful choice for a purposeful offroad vehicle. This coming from someone who owned one of these cars.

Suspension made of slush, no ground clearance, no traction control, weak transmission, ludicrously expensive differential options, small wheel bearings, poor rollover protection, etc. etc...

It wasn't a question of "can it go over dirt with small hills" it was a question of "is it worth the cost to modify to a serious offroad machine". Answer is still no.

Fuck yeah, welcome back, dude.
Loved your threads last time, glad to see shit's worked out for you!

>>548385
Yeah, the plan is to make it as simple and rugged as possible so that it can be roughhoused and possibly replicated. I'll start up another project thread for V2 when we get started on it!

>>548397
It's a sand swimmer/rally-x machine, not a rock crawler. I spin circles around the big offroad trucks and some of the dune buggies out there.

>The slushy suspension is great; I removed both sway bars and the thing is smooth as silk.
>Stock tC's are jokingly referred to as "monster trucks" because of their ground clearance; with the big A/T tires it clears most shit no problem.
>I installed a helical LSD that, when controlled with some precision braking, does great at biting and pulling.
>Transmission is surprisingly aggressively geared; first and second gear tear through the rough. I can chirp the tires up through 3rd.
>Wheel bearings... yeah, whatever.
>Poor rollover protection = don't frickin roll it.

With some paddles it would be well on par with a lot of the dune buggies out there.

As much as you want to argue with me I will argue back. Don't call it an 'art car'. It's a tool and it does it's job well.

>>548415
Word, thanks man!

>>548427
Sounds pretty good. Stock shocks still? I'd be a little concerned about dampers wearing prematurely.
Stock they only had about 5" of ground clearance, but with tall offroad tires it's probably pretty useful.
The LSD is one of those really pricey complaints, but hey, you've got one and it even exists for the car so, great.
The manual transmission isn't really that terrible, but it's not overbuilt past the 200hp that the factory supercharger gave the car.

I'm not, nor ever attempted to imply that the car isn't or couldn't be capable. The implication is that you could have done so very much more with the same time and money invested in a different vehicle.

I'm glad you made it work, but that doesn't undo it being an awful initial choice for what you made.

>>548433
>could have done so very much more with the same time and money invested in a different vehicle.

But then everyone would hate all Scion tCs. Now everyone likes at least one. :]

My brother did basically the same treatment to a subaru legacy, and driving it is boring. It just goes and goes. All he did is put big tires on it and a skid plate. What's the fun in that?

(It actually IS fun, but building/driving my car is a hell of a lot more fun.)

>>548434
I liked mine just fine. It just needed a stiffer suspension to not be awful to drive on the road, the factory tires were like rollerskates in the rain, and the tiny windows and huuuge pillars meant enormous blind spots.

Otherwise it was quiet, sharp, comfortable, and actually had measurable torque, unlike its competitors. The 2AZFE is a capable motor, with a lot of good decisions inside. Women looooved riding in it.

/o/ hates it because it's a FWD marketed to people in their age group. Hell, /o/ kind of hates the FRS, which by all rights should be their wet dream.

>Cliff Martinez
Oh, another one for my driving playlist >]
>>548434
And that pretty much sums up why some of us are driving FWD offroad cars. Because, it's fun.
I can see appeal of that even being RWDfag for the bottom of my heart. Then again, I am rising my 30 year old euro coupe...
>>548437
>/o/ hates it because it's a FWD marketed to people in their age group. Hell, /o/ kind of hates the FRS, which by all rights should be their wet dream.

>>548502
My first car was FWD and I loved it. Light, fast, accelerated like a mad and was cheap to drive and maintenance. /o/ is sometime a rabbit lair of circlejerking and muscle car love but there are few gems to find there.
also, cars are to be loved. All of them.

>>547652

>tfw I remember posting in that first thread

Awesome job OP, happy to see your hard work and talent pay off.

I'd like to build a partly similar control panel for a rs232 device also with a alphanumeric display and various potentiometers and switches. Do you have any example code or wiring links that you can point me to in order to build such a thing?

>>548903
I used an arduino to handle all the input/output via serial. I just checked youtube for a tutorial on communicating to Unity using serial communications with arduino. I don't fully understand the details of it, but definitely look up Arduino if you haven't heard of it--there's a massive codebase and community around to help you get just about any project working with it.

OP, is there a video of the inside of this thing being played? It'd be cool to see on youtube.

I saw your cockpit looking thing and the word battlemech and was drawn in. I also saw your tC on /o/. The fact that you are the same person is pretty incredible. Keep up the awesome work, in whatever field that may be. 10/10 my friend.

Can I just say that I love you OP?

This is a glorious day, not only does OP deliver glorious OC multiple times, he is also not a fag, loves cats, and has Glorious Woman.

You God amongst 4Chan

>>548372
all them toggle switches, I love those things

>>547652
if you ever need a new control panel, for a project like this, send me an email, i may be able to make one for you.

elmoroyd@gmail.cm

>>550076
He has a gf as well, this guy is truly amazing. Just wondering, what does his girl friend look like ?

>>547725

It's a Chechen garage SMG

This reminds me so much of a place in Vegas I visited with the now ex-wife during our honeymoon. I think it was called Virtual World. You'd pay like $30 for a half-hour session of what to me seemed like the truest-to-life 'mech sim I've ever seen. Pretty sure it was a MW knockoff because if you loaded heavy on plasma you'd get maybe 4 shots off before the 'pod powered down due to 'overheating' until you frantically typed a shit-ton of code into the keypad to 'restart'. So for the rest of the day's gaming, my loadout consisted of 1 plasma, 2 heavy lasers, 4 light lasers, and the rest of my optional space crammed with heat-sinks or dissipators or whatever they called them. I'd find one of the only pools or streams of water in the map and stand in it, figuring after talking to the uber-nerd manager on smoke break that they'd have programmed it as true to MW RPG as possible. No gimbals, but small pneumatics and vibrators made it feel pretty 'real'. After slaughtering mai waifu and her dickheaded brother-in-law's team for a couple hours, we decided to go to dinner, on the way out they presented us with this cool Virtual World booklet that had the logo embossed and your game record printed out inside. Nerd-bro also told me that my shenanigans meant they were going to program huge gouts of steam to mark mechs who used the water as dumping-ground for heat. Was good feels, thanks for reminding me that 'mech games used to be fun and cool.

>>547668
What is the purpose of this item? To look cool with a display on your arm? (If so, nice job)

Secondly, what is it plugged into?

>>551112
I do believe that Virtual World had BattleTech sim pods, which are fully licensed and official MechWarrior content (as BattleTech is the name for the entire series, MechWarrior included).

The fact that this dude basically garage-kitted one of those, and then wrote his own sim in 3 months is amazing.

>>547652
I know it doesn't mean a whole lot coming from a stranger, but I hope one day to be as kick ass as you are. Especially own a car as fucking badass as that.

>>549719
Sorry man, I somehow didn't think to get any video of the damn thing in action... though you can imagine, someone sitting there with the game playin on the screen, haha. Again, beta coming up online within a few days. (Moving soon; I've been busy cleaning the house.)

>>549738
Thanks man! I need to go to /o/ and raise some hell; I've never actually been in that forum.

>>550076
HODOOORR! Thanks bro! I'm lucky to have what I have and to have been given the opportunities to make this cool stuff. Glad you guys are enjoying it!

>>550223
They are so satisfying. Nice big solid metallic TNGK! when you flip them.

>>550289
Stashed you in my contacts, thanks! My brother and I are planning the Mark II--I will definitely hit you up.

>>550543
Here's the love of my life helping me during the build. :]

>>551112
That sounds rad! I remember a similar place in San Diego that was called "Virtual VR." They had cockpits with lights and control boards and such that you'd sit inside and play Dropship Command. They weren't quite as fancy as the ones you described, but they were similarly a fond memory of mine. I think I'm gonna have to keep making these things to keep the tradition alive!

>>551239
It's basically just a bracer with an external battery pack that holds my cell phone. Keeps it on me and available while leaving my hands free. It's handy for working in the garage because I can have instructions or videos or what have you playing on the phone while actually working on the project, and the battery pack could keep the phone running all day long.

>>551487
Means a lot man, thanks! As far as the car, all it takes is a can of black paint, a jigsaw, some self-tapping screws, and a blatant disregard for the resale value.

>>550543
And a bonus pic; thought you guys would appreciate this one, as it has another of my projects. I took a piece of riot shield replacement lexan and mounted my own hardware to it. Here's the lady showing it off.

>>551630
>tfw no A V E R A G E gf

>>551669
Average? She looks hot,.but just wearing a really baggy hoodie. Besides, I bet she's crazy in bed.

Cecil ickasry

>>551630
>Here's the lady showing it off.
>lady
shiggy diggy doo

i remember a thread about how you made a hatch in the rearwindow of you car, also your hot gf.

>>551674
I think he means "he has /no/ average gf", which I'll take as a compliment. And thanks. She's tons of fun and as much a diy-er as the rest of us.

>>551683
>shiggy diggin I have a gf? what should I call her, 'gurl'? 'biznatch?' 'womanz'?

>>551722
Yup! That happened. Pic related.

>>551830
tfw no road warrior gf

>>551830
What I'm most curious about is what that hatch came off of.

>>551830
haha dude, that is sick

>>551850
Got it from a marine (boating) surplus store. It was all plastic, so I reinforced it with the diamondplate that I cut out for it in the trunk.

>>551852
Thanks, ahaha.

hey OP if your still here I have two questions:

1. Did you go to uni and get qualified or did you learn through messing around with stuff/experience?

2. How did you get the money for all this and still have time to build it all?

>>551889
1. I took three years of Mech Eng and two years of multimedia computing in the arts. I didn't learn shit in Mech Eng (let's all do calculus!) but I was introduced to Arduino through my computing in the arts studies. I took a few basic C and Java classes at school but I pretty much learned Javascript (which I used for this project) on my own time. I can link you the tutorials I used if you want them.

As far as fabrication skills, I've kinda been a tinkerer for my entire life. Dad taught me a lot of my woodworking/circuitry skills, and I also took a Fabrication and Design class in high school in which I learned a lot of good stuff.

2. I worked as a bus driver at my university for two years while I was living at home. While I still had to pay for gas and food and everything I was able to put a little bit away in savings each month, enough that I could then take six months off from working to devote myself to my last few months of school and this project. (The project in total cost in the ballpark of a grand.)

>>551892
I still wonder who bought the tC.

Back when that thing was first posted they were impossible to find cheap. I traded mine in for MSRP, 10 months after I bought it (I'm the guy who talked about the suspension and all that) apparently right before the used value began to crash.

I mean, my sense is that nobody would do that to a $17,000 car that they bought with their own money.

>>551892
thanks man, you are now a personal hero. I'll try to be less lazy in future and move the hell out as soon as I can afford a place with ample garage space (Britain, sucks balls).

>>551900
My parents made the down payment and made payments on it for about a year (as a gift for getting accepted to my 1st choice college), but then I got a job and offered to make the payments myself. We got it for ~11k as it was a bit beat up. (Looked like the previous owner tried to buff the paint without using buffing compound... it was pretty bad.) Cracks in the bumpers and other stuff, too. Engine was fine though.

>>551904
Means a lot dude. :] Just start tinkering--there's not any 'right way' to get started. The internet is your friend, particularly /diy/.

Well, it was a bittersweet day. Officially decomissioned the mech box with my girlfriend. Gutted it for parts, gonna hack it apart with an ax tomorrow morning.

Good stuff removed. CBB to recycle any of the wood or metal strapping/scrap wire.

Ready for destruction. We gave it a proper send-off, complete with 'Taps' on the harmonica.

Gotta say, I teared up a little tearing the ol' girl down. Here's the spoils from the decom.

Gotta think of a badass new project to make use of all this stuff.

>>552150
Already? Why? The woo-man complained about the space it was taking?

>>552160
It served it's purpose. It got me through school, it got me a job that paid it off in two weeks, and I had a crapton of fun building it. To be completely honest the finished product wasn't INCREDIMAZING, to me at least. It was a PITA to hook up the computer and everything, the control panel had some intermittent connection issues, and the acoustics on the inside were pretty bad (the sound system was great but the box itself made it sound kinda hollow and echoey). The game quickly outgrew the cockpit as well; the control panels became obsolete pretty quickly as I continued developing the game.

And while my woman didn't complain about it taking up space, I personally started to be bothered by the small-car-sized wooden box collecting dust in the garage.

I got a ton of pics, I enjoyed the build and the presentation, and I salvaged all of the working internals, so I feel pretty good about breaking 'er down.

Besides--now knowing what I learned from this build, I'm definitely going to have to build a new one that is an order of magnitude more badass than the original.

You've accomplished more in your young life already than I ever will

>>552163

Mmkay. I guess it, indeed, did everything it was supposed to do plus some more.
I'm interested to see the next iteration.

>>547668
I saw you post this, or at least someone post your pictures, in a thread recently. Thanks for the inspiration!

>>547948
Can you post a little more about this? very interested in possibly making as a Christmas present.

I'm assuming you just buy 3 clips/webbing wherever. But what sort of "pad" is that under the phone?

Very cool by the way, loving your work!

>tfw no cute brown gf


So are you taking the control panel and replacing it with a keyboard? Kinda lame.

Are you looking into articulation? Also, how many faggots on here said you wouldn't be able to do it?

>>553152
Check for >>547749
I asked it earlier.

>>553176
Cheers buddy! I skimmed through the thread about 3 times but I guess I missed that one. Thanks.

>>553152
>>553176
OP here. The pad underneath is a cut of leather (veg tan hide) that I dyed black. I cut slits in it for the webbing to go through.

>>553173
Not sure what Mark II is gonna be like. We'll probably have a normal keyboard plus some other professionally-built peripherals (like joystick/throttle stick, aux keypads, etc.) Making them was fun but I think it'd be awesome (and now that I have stable income) to put in some fancy professionally produced stuff.

I don't frequent this board much, but whenever I do I'm amazed.

You and /out/ are the coolest motherfuckers.
Keep doing what you do.