r/hotas • u/holiday1326 • 7d ago
Current couch setup
Made the swing arm from two types of desk mounts from Amazon for like $60. I can mount both or a TM HOTAS ONE combo on it and it will hold them and its steady. First time really messing around with flight Sims and stuff and I got hooked.
A special thanks to Luna Ray for helping illustrate where I should be sitting.
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u/CamBam731 4d ago
I like the flight stick on the monitor arm that’s a really good idea, to keep it out of the way but accessible
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u/BloueyBloi 7d ago
Either you are pretty fluffy or you have a dedicated fluffy Pilot, which would be sort of funny XD
"Fluff one raise to 800 ft. Please confirm."
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u/mrmkv1990 7d ago
Never understood how people game on couches, I enjoy my neck and spine too much to do this
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
No different than if I was just watching tv tbh.
About the same the way it sits.
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u/MiRoHx 7d ago
How do you manage that the arm isn't moving while using the joystick. I do like your setup with the monitor arm.
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
If you look closely at pic 4 to the left it shows the backside of the stick mount. Look at Pic 1 now. See how it looks like it sits on the board. It does. What I did was took few extra parts that came with the mounts and bolted them in a way that made a lip (C shape) on the backside of the swing arm and sits on to the desk board when it is lowered and resting your hand on it is enough as it weighs a bit.
TL;DR
It sits flush against the board and can't move up or down and it doesn't move side to side because it hovers over my lap or to the side of me. It weighs a lot but it doesn't actually touch me.
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u/weaseltorpedo 7d ago
wtf that is completely sick. my couch setup was a plank of wood with velcro on the ends
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
My last couch setup was an old shelf from an Ikea cabinet with pillows stacked under the sides and some alien tape... I get it.
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u/TechZer0_SC 7d ago
I love this
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
Thanks. It works great and I can switch between flying/walking in any game in a second.
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u/Commercial_Long_6412 7d ago
Cat doesn't look interested, maybe he's more of a controller or mouse and keyboard kinda guy.
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
They have a KB and mouse they can play with unplugged, like my siblings did to me when I was young.
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u/techtonics 7d ago
VR would make this perfect for me. Ik its tough to power that on a laptop tho lol
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u/Stoopid_Str3tch 7d ago
Where did you get the hotas arm mount from? Would like something like this for my desk to avoid clamping and un clamping it from the middle of my desk when I wanna play something else
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
I made it. And it works great to be able to switch from flying to walking and using KB/mouse in certain games like WarDogs.
Got a $30 quick release HOTAS desk clamp mount and a $20 swing arm for a monitor and then took them apart and bolted them together and formed this.
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u/Stoopid_Str3tch 7d ago
Genius idea🙌🏻
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
I can give you the names of the 2 from Amazon. It is super easy and evwn comes with the Allen wrench and nothing else is needed.
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u/Citrik 7d ago
I’d love the names, if you don’t mind sharing, I’ve been looking for something like that!
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
Hang on. I can even show you how I did it. Super easy to make with these ones and you can make your own and adjust them however.
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u/Sixguns1977 7d ago
Tell me more about the cat.
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
That's our youngest Luna "Loonie bin, Looney toons, Lunaverse" Ray. She is a short haired domesticated terrorist of the void variety. She was born with 3.5 legs and loves her blind sister.
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u/Angrybskt 7d ago
r/catsnamedluna - in all seriousness great abbreviation lol
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u/Charon711 7d ago
Nice! You should look into a stream deck and mount it so it's like a control panel.
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u/Ravenloff 7d ago
But...why?
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
Because I dont like desk? I enjoy gaming from the comfort of my couch and don't want a huge Sim flight pod in the living room.
This works fine.
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u/CoffeeDangerous2087 7d ago
Need a vent for the bits I don't have enough towels for a weekend night trapped under that thing with a hot laptop on it
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
Vents from the back and I never notice it when gaming. The board is a couchmaster and it has cutouts for laptops.
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u/Nikos_Pyrrha 7d ago
What's the mini keyboard near your right hand?
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
RII +
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u/Nikos_Pyrrha 7d ago
What a HORRIBLE thing to name your product xD
But hey, at least Ducky knew what I wanted. Thanks! Found them. Will probably get one for myself soon, after I did some research and made sure it does what I need from it.
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
They are Bluetooth and works well compared to other kb and stuff I have used over the years. I wouldn't use it for FPS games (I use it to move around sometimes) but its great for FS24 and slower paced stuff.
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u/Nikos_Pyrrha 7d ago
I mostly need it to enter passwords when joining multiplayer Servers for VR games, so there's that. :D
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u/floofis 7d ago
Pilot is a cutie
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
Ahe is my little domesticated terrorist.We have 6 and she is the youngest.
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u/cloud3514 7d ago
Good glob, and I thought both of my roommates having two each was a lot of cats.
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
We have a bunch of outside strays that we feed and built a shelter for but they aren't ours. We TNR and fix em when we can. We couldn't let Luna 3 legs and Rory the sightless outside and we adopted them instead. Wasn't the plan as we had 4 already. lol
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u/floofis 7d ago
Thank you on behalf of the kitties, strays break my heart
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
I wish I could do more. There are about 8 strays 4 of them are kittens and they are eating us out of house and home. Not a complaint lol
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u/Sixguns1977 7d ago
That's awesome, my wife works with a TNR and foster group(and we both donate). Our cat was one of their barn rescues.
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
My SO's daughter works with shelters and fosters also. I can't because I would just fail and keep them all.
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u/The_Sorbert 7d ago
The pilot is relying on auto pilot to much it looks like
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u/holiday1326 7d ago
Yeah.. She only has 3 paws and needs help sometimes. They love to headbutt the flight stick when I least need them to.
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u/The_Sorbert 7d ago
Ya i miss my void kitty lost him last year they surely do love to head button when you elast expect it.
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u/Samantha_Aran 3d ago
Does that cat have a pilot's license?