Hardware

Andrew Benson, the Chief F1 writer at the BBC Formula 1 webpage wrote an article about the Mercedes F1 simulator, with the help of Nico Rosberg.

SLIMax Manager III now supports any HID Compliant hardware including Fanatec, Logitech and Thrusmaster gameware and obviously, any button-box, any controllers, any joystick, shiftter or gamepad.

Tod takes a Quick look at a great load cell mod for the Thrustmaster T500 RS pedals set.

SimRacingDan takes us on a tour arround his racing rig.

This video details the concepts and design decisions used in developing this DIY Driving Cockpit. It details the design elements, reasoning, and features of the design in an effort to assist other DIY project builders.

DEM Racing Simulators announced a new pedal set to be released. The DRS-Pedals as they are named, are still in prototype stage, and will be tested for another week. If all goes well, the pedals should be on sale by March 11.

ARC_Team organised a press release regarding their driving center. A vast selection of journalists and the Audi driver Marco Bonanomi attended the meeting and .where able to test the advanced training center

Fanatec released a new driver version for Windows PC. The main thing Fanatec addressed where some random rumble effects which stayed active after you already left the curbs.

This is part-2 of a videos series by Tod Bettenhausen that documents the building of a three-projector Sim Racing cockpit.. A final look at the CAD model and discussion about this project. All the sheet metal parts are off for fabrication. This rig should become operational within a couple of weeks.

Demonstration of an UART-USB side channel IC connected to the LifeOn2 FFB Controller. The side channel will be used for FFB profiling and performance tuning.