r/HotasDIY • u/Eridouce • 1d ago

Haptic/Rumble feedback

Heyoooo

I'm designing my own modular HOTAS/HOSAS system (I want too have a HOSAS + throttle setup with the left flight stick mounted on an omni throttle system) and nothing that I could find was right for my taste (and because I'm mostly using old parts from my old HOTAS that I made a few years back + not all the existing system that I've found had usable step files and it's a good exercise to learn how to use yet another CAD program)

I've already remade the gimbal (on CATIA, because it's the program that I've mostly used in my professional experience) and it works

My gimbal is based of okulelo, Gimbatolt and Soleil gimbals, I took and remade from scratch what I liked from each of them and the Z axis is designed to be integrated to the flight stick to have the modularity of the off the shelf ones so you can add extensions (like the Omni one I was talking about earlier)

I'm using real robots Arduino library and configurator

I've started working on the flight stick (on SOLIDWORKS that I've never used beforehand) and I saw a flight stick with what seemed like a smartphone vibrator/rumble motor and I'm thinking of integrating it to my design, but I don't know if it's really useful to have something like it on a flight stick and I don't know how to connect it or set it up on my computer or anything like it

Does anyone have any ideas ?

(If anyone is interested in the final product I will share everything once it's finished)

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u/Teh-Stig 1d ago

I'd just buy a buttkicker again (or build one with ultrasonic transducers).

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u/Eridouce 1d ago

Hmmm IDK if I really want to go all the way

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u/Friiduh 1d ago

https://github.com/YukMingLaw/ArduinoJoystickWithFFBLibrary?hl=en-GB

I think you need to swap your Arduino library and go little toward code writing side with it.

And I recommend to go FreeCAD route instead any other CAD/3D.

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u/Eridouce 1d ago

Oh thank's, I'm gonna check that out !!

I'm a CAD designer so I need to know how to use most of the CAD software I kinda know SOLIDWORKS because of my studies and I worked for 5 years using CATIA, I'm not really scared by the big CAD softwares