Obviously its not as good as a bldc but its 1/10 of the price
Obviously its not as good as a bldc but its 1/10 of the price
SYou can get 2 dual h brdiges for 10 dollars
SAnd the motors can be pulled out of anything
SI have been playng with them for a while and they are totally fine
SAnd you can control them with pwm it couldnt get any simpler
WYeah and it's a good learning experience, I also did a DC motor build with my early tests 
VJust starting to consider this. As a real pilot I have always struggled with LACK of FFB. I had a MSFFB stick back in the day…. Loved it. Now is the time to get back into this. @walmis - Where are you with kit supply, or is it a list of part to source myself? I do not have a 3D printer but I. Do have access to get things printed. (Glancing above, there are a fair few acronyms - BLDC?)
PAnd 1/100 of FFB quality. I come through so many options for power train in FFB during all RND and system development you can not even imagine. And DC - is on the bottom of the list as least prefered. It is just not on par with BLDC. Building FFB joystick in 2023 on DC motor is just waste of time and money. Just collect a little bit and buy cheapest option from @walmis if you want simplicity. It will be just night and day comparing to DC variant. And yep. There is no ready made firmware/software part available to be used "as is" to build FFB joystick on DC motors. You will need to write your firmware combining parts from different projects.
PIt is an illusion that DC solution is simpler. It is not. BLDC solution could be even simpler "as the whole system" when you consider all not only electrical but mechanical part into account
SI wouldnt say its a waste of time and money since there is no time and money spent. I have tons of them layng around that I have pulled out of various things for free. Both fino and open ffb support pwm and the h brdiges are dirt cheap on amazon.
Syou can test and still have fun with them until you get bldc motors and drivers for them
SAnd you can replace when your tired of them or have the funds to get something better
PYou recommend OTHER people to build DC solution as first. For someone who plan to build his first device it is the worst option. Those people need alreacy checked prowen solution with all steps clear and verified by other. Otherwise them just waste their time and money.
SI mean they obviously didnt want to go with tried and tested
SThey wanted the diy route
SAnd how much money and time could dc possibly cost them
PDefinitely more, then cheapest walmis kit
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SBut the motor can be gotten for free
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SI pulled this behemoth out of a old tread mill
PSo. It is already close to 100$ for 2axiss. And you do not account so valuable resource as lifetime? How much time random person will spend to setup everything together, fix bugs only to realize later that it produces terrible non informative FFB full of terrible cogging effects. And that people already once come throu the same path and created good working solution that imediately gives excelent result - kit on BLDC motors. Smooth, powerfull and easy to use
How much time random person will spend to setup everything together, fix bugs only to realize later that it produces terrible non informative FFB full of terrible cogging effects. And that people already once come throu the same path and created good working solution that imediately gives excelent result - kit on BLDC motors. Smooth, powerfull and easy to use PYou are happy if you can get motors for free. Not everybody have the source with them around
SUsed market
SPeople list free items
SIdk I dont see it like that. Yes sure there is kits ready to use but I dont see whats wrong with diy
SI have fun playng around with different motors
PYou will not convince me. I already come through tone of experiments. You can have fun from whatever you want. I just WARN PEOPLE not to start from DC motors if them want good and smooth working solution. Just start with BLDC. Be smart, and believe those who already throw away ton of money an experiments
SNot tryng to convince you, I know where your coming from
BWell, no ready made firmware or parts, other than the MSFFB2 board 
but let me tell you that is a PROJECT
but let me tell you that is a PROJECTBModded msffb2 board allowed me to use dc motors but it’s work to mod it and you have to have very very good motors
SOpen ffb board and fino project are basically ready made
BDoes open FFB work with 2 axis controllers tho? Last I checked into open FFB it wasn’t very useful for joysticks
SI have msffb2 also but I havent touched it other then doubling the torque
BHence my ffb2 route
SYeah it has a joystick 2 axis mode
BHuh. Well that’s new apparently
BGranted I did my frankenstick over a year ago
BBefore Walmis kit available, and iirc open FFB had no joystick support
SYeah
SIt a good joystick
SI have two of them
BYa I’m a little out of the loop honestly, when I did my FFB2 creation there were basically no ready made firmware solutions available
SWhat does it look like
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BTrouble with FFB2 is there is zero anti-cogging so you can only use high end servomotors basically
SHow is the resolution