Keeping Yaw after all?

by | Aug 5, 2014 | Design, Engineering, Other sims

Moving to belts and dropping rotation might not be inevitable after all. Instead we could incorporate a system that adds rotation too The simple pitch and roll solution with belts looks like this : This is the view from the bottom of the sphere, motors on the sides...

Interesting link

by | Jul 16, 2014 | Other sims

I found a video that displays a very similar idea to the Feel Three, albeit not fully realised. Seems they came up with the idea in 2009 but doesn’t look like they followed it though. Their use of air to lift the platform, like playing air hockey, is quite nice...

The problem with the competition

by | Jun 7, 2014 | Other sims

With these motion simulators they’re generally solving the same problem with two solutions. The problem is moving the platform, ie you, in at least 2 degrees of motion quickly and a fairly large distance. However, every single solution relies on  basic premise...