Rear steer switch

[GrsRacing]

Just curious if anyone on here has built a realistic rear steer switch and handle instead of just using buttons on a wheel or keyboard? I've built one using a keyboard chip and a left/right momentary switch. It works pretty good and it just more realistic than using a keyboard or steering wheel buttons. Just wondering if it's been done and how other people did it.

[Mark Colineri]

I attempted it, but was never able to get anything to work. Would love to make it work someday with the setup I currently have.

[MJFAN]

Would you post a photo of your setup? I'd love to see how you have it set up! 

[GrsRacing]

Yeah, I'll post some pictures shortly. It's a little crude right now . I'm in the process of making a replica handle , but it works awesome . 

[GrsRacing]

Here is a couple pictures , like I said a little crude , but I'm in the process of building another cleaner version. I just took a cheap $10 usb keyboard and took the chip and wired the switch to the 3 pins controlling f1 and f2. Then mounted it in a small box . In total about $15 for everything . Hopefully the links to the pictures work, they were too large to upload to the forum.

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/4FVHOKucA_w

[MonsterJamUpdates]

That looks sick af! Just saying!

[Mark Colineri]

How did you wire it? I basically have the same switch and could never get mine to register a button press.

[GrsRacing]

I just took very fine wire, it was actually an old rgb cable that came with 3 wires hooked together . Then I traced on the two plastic sheets inside the keyboard to see what contacts they went to on the chip. There will be 2 separate ones for f1 and f2 then a common one they share . I soldered the wires very carefully to the chip so they didn't touch any other contact next to them . Then the two individual wires go to each side of the switch and the common they share go to the center of the switch.

[Outlawed]

that is pretty sweet

[ishama brown]

do a video with you driving with it

[GrsRacing]

13 hours ago, ishama brown said:

do a video with you driving with it

I'll post one shortly.

 

[ishama brown]

k

 

[SomthinEvilRacing]

That thing is awesome!!!! Very cool and great job man!!!

[GrsRacing]

 

I went ahead and made a new design on a some what more realistic handle for the switch. I was going to weld it up out of metal , but I figured pvc would suffice on a first attempt. It still needs paint , but works great and adds a little more realism.