Author: noobhands

So, I’ve had a bit of a break – been busy with work and the outside world! However, I haven’t forgotten about this project… I’ve got my buttons all in place, and I’ve got the rotary encoders with caps printed. I haven’t got the rotaries in and soldered just yet though, but here’s a preview […]

So the plan was to dip this when everything was near enough finished, and that’s where we are! I noticed the carbon weave on the Mercedes wheel is a lot tighter than the previous film I had already, which was more of a ‘classic carbon fibre weave’. I ended up learning from previous experience, and […]

So, I’ve got most of the wheel printed… I’ve done a few dummy runs of connecting it together and even putting the quick-release mechanism to the QR adaptor on the wheel. It really looks quite something, this was without buttons/screen/LEDS connected, just gear/clutch/QR. (ignore the old wheel on the side) It doesn’t look too bad […]

So, the clutch is a lot more fiddlier than I thought, even after getting the springs in place. My first issue, was having the Arduino become a joystick so that I could utilise them, as my LeoBodnar board would only allow on/off… I couldn’t find anything that would work with either the UNO or Nano […]

So, this was probably the hardest part, but also probably one of the easiest parts… It was hard because I didn’t quite understand how they’d spring out, or how the springs would fit, in reality it was pretty easy. It was also probably the bit of the project that I was most impressed with, as […]

So, this is where things start to get smarter! It’s made of 4 pieces, the main shifter arm, the base and two pieces that hold the arm in place. The main base requires M3 inserts, I had initially tried to glue these in with a bit of Gorilla Glue Gel, however I was printing most […]

So, as you could see from the previous post the body seems to be the heart of it all. Everything connects to this body, which might seem normal, but the way everything has been thought through has been brilliant. As I mentioned before, everything is pretty modular with the main body. The rotary holder above […]

So, the body part of this wheel has been put together with real intricacies. Everything seems to be separate and literally just bolts together, which was really nice when it came to printing as it meant if I wasn’t happy with the print quality, I was able to just reprint the specific part again. So what […]

So, got the display I’m using USBD480, it’s a 4.3″ 480×272 TFT display connected via USB. The enclosure is designed for this display, and it fits perfectly It all looked good when previewing on the PC, I wasn’t sure how it would turn out on the printer, so I sliced and printed As you can see, it […]

So, I currently have a 3D printed steering wheel that connects to my G25 (old, I know – but it does the job). It’s not too bad, I made a few tweaks to it but generally it’s held up well, I have it running with the SLI-Pro by LeoBodnar but it’s pretty swish compared to […]