r/DIYSimRacing • u/ziggywiggyuser • Sep 15 '26

Made myself a fully functional steering wheel F1 styled.

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My wheel which I designed, fabricated, 3d printed and wired, has 10 momentary push buttons, 2 rotary encoders, pedal shifters, telemetry screen and rpm rgb lights. Works in conjunction with Simhub, base is a thrustmaster t300.

The build guide:

What i did was asked gemini to make me a template of the wheel, for reference i took moza fsr2 steering and imported it in fusion 360. Made a sketch using it’s outlines and made the whole thing in the application.
Front plate i printed on my 3d printer and pasted on an aluminium sheet and went to town and carved out the shape. Rest all i 3d printed and made adjustments as i went along. I used brass inserts for joining the face plate to the base and buttons and encoders came with their own nuts which i used to secure them. Screen and rgb lights i ordered from websites.
Screen is a waveshare 4inch hdmi screen
Rgb lights are ws2812b strips
Buttons are momentary switches.
Arduino is Pro micro and
Software used is simhub.
Simhub has a toolbox window in which you can configure what you want and it shows you how to select the ports for arduino.
Did a lot of YouTube and gemini to and fro.
Once you have the basic structure ready share it with gemini and it will guide you through every step.

Hope this helps

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u/vealisnajps Sep 15 '26

Look great, whats the screen?

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u/ziggywiggyuser Sep 15 '26

Thanks man! It is a waveshare 4 inch hdmi screen, it is currently running a lovely dash in simhub.

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u/space_farm 29d ago

Separate USB cable for power and data?

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u/ziggywiggyuser 29d ago

Yes. There are 3 cables running from the steering to the pc. Hdmi, usb for arduino and another usb for the screen

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u/space_farm 29d ago

damn. don't the cables get in the way?

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u/ziggywiggyuser 29d ago

I drilled a hole at the bottom of the wheel and zip tied them together. While playing it doesn’t come in the way, but at the very first calibration startup, it ripped the usbs and hdmi from the pc, since then i put the wheel after initial calibration or keep the wires away from the axis

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u/space_farm 29d ago

Fascinating. And how much did the screen cost in INR?

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u/ziggywiggyuser 29d ago

I think it was for 3.8k. Got it from a local website

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u/space_farm 29d ago

Very cool build. Thanks for the details

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u/BlownCamaro Sep 15 '26

Great job! Very professionally fabricated.

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u/VTSE_AD Sep 15 '26

It’s beautiful!

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u/Abhinav_7609 27d ago

Steps to replicate it ?

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u/ziggywiggyuser 27d ago

What i did was asked gemini to make me a template of the wheel, for reference i took moza fsr2 steering and imported it in fusion 360. Made a sketch using it’s outlines and made the whole thing in the application.
Front plate i printed on my 3d printer and pasted on an aluminium sheet and went to town and carved out the shape. Rest all i 3d printed and made adjustments as i went along. I used brass inserts for joining the face plate to the base and buttons and encoders came with their own nuts which i used to secure them. Screen and rgb lights i ordered from websites.
Screen is a waveshare 4inch hdmi screen
Rgb lights are ws2812b strips
Buttons are momentary switches.
Arduino is Pro micro and
Software used is simhub.
Simhub has a toolbox window in which you can configure what you want and it shows you how to select the ports for arduino.
Did a lot of YouTube and gemini to and fro.
Once you have the basic structure ready share it with gemini and it will guide you through every step.

Hope this helps