Custom Railworks Controller

[smarty2]

Driver somewhere "Oi whos had me bloomin speedo and starter then?" Very impressive matey.

[bdy26]

Brilliant! Shudder to think of the work and lateral thinking itches taken to do that!

B

[67025]

Blimey , Now Thats What You've Been Up To! Clever Stuff Chris!

[partyspiritz]

God I dont know what add Magic


Regards



John

[Ryosuke]

thats cool, so you can create something like this for railworks as well...:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLHOa3y_DjQ


i'd love to built a controller like this...just the knobs and levers though:

[ghawk2005]

This is awesome, slightly ecceennntric but still v impressive. If you had the money, would be worth buying a scrap HST cab, put it in your garden, get one huge screen and wire up as many controls as you can this way, If i had the money and brains, i would love to have a go at this.

fab work!

[niclouse3]

wow. speechless!

[Kromaatikse]

I think there is an actual Deltic cab floating around somewhere, on the back of a lorry and wired up for simulation.

[msdejesus]

How on Earth...?

[hertsbob]

I think there is an actual Deltic cab floating around somewhere, on the back of a lorry and wired up for simulation.

It would seem so, although it appears to be set up for Trainz at present.

http://www.railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewto ... =8&t=21583

The SD40 cab is up for $8,000 plus postage & packaging.
http://www.raildriver.com/indexSD40.php

Cheers

Bob

[pedleyk]

I've had a "peripheral" - actually a class 47 drivers desk in my garage for a couple of years now, hoping that I could interface it with Railworks.
I have no idea how to do it, so any information you could give...

I did ask the guys at Raildriver if they would sell me the inards of a console or whatever to get the desk working but they didn't seem too keen.

I'm watching this post with real interest.

Regards

Kevin

[Kromaatikse]

You could always buy a complete RailDriver and take it apart. Compared to everything else you will need, that shouldn't be a huge expense.

Alternatively you could use the insides of a joystick or two. This would require a different approach to interfacing it to Railworks, but the mechanical aspects will be similar.

[220389]

Have to say very impressive

Chris

[Ryosuke]

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I've had a "peripheral" - actually a class 47 drivers desk in my garage for a couple of years now, hoping that I could interface it with Railworks.
I have no idea how to do it, so any information you could give...

I did ask the guys at Raildriver if they would sell me the inards of a console or whatever to get the desk working but they didn't seem too keen.

I'm watching this post with real interest.

Regards

Kevin

all you need is a joystick controller like this:
http://www.leobodnar.com/

and a couple of wires, potentiometers and switches and some tools to mate the cab to them.
should be much easier than using a raildriver controller.

[hertsbob]

I've had a "peripheral" - actually a class 47 drivers desk in my garage for a couple of years now

Wow, this thread is something else!

Cheers

Bob