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what's the real issue, a jetski, or the dip sticks that rent then and do stupid shit with them...

Think there's a better chance of you getting robbed than problems with humidity on your household effects

no they dont, but the roll, pitch and heave is for the personal sensations. so when you jump on the brakes it'll push you forward (up in the air) so your looking down at the ground - simulating the forward g force under braking. its all just to push your body in the direction that the forces would take you.

what do you want with an f1 rig?

yeah, the 3DOF is the same as what those f1 sim's run.

its just a car on the platform. it doesnt have to pitch that much, it just can.

should buy a kart and race out at bira next year with us, that's about as close as you can get to f1 racing around here. no open wheel categories.

hardly crazy. windshield motors are highly durable, and with a small tweak produce a high power output and response with the standard gearbox attached. a wheelchair motor is way too heavy and slow.

this is a 2dof with windshield wiper motors with i assume the same style of plastic rig you saw before (this has been reinforced with some metal pipes)

this is what i'm building (not my video, but the same in essence)

there's not much to it 'framework' wise. it's a motion platform. so its just 3 motors and a platform. and yeah, electrical and mechanical engineering at what i would call a basic level now (was a long time ago), but i have some expert from some other engineer friends on the project.

does anyone know if there's any restrictions on importing a car in from japan.

i understand import duties are upwards of 200-300%, but is there age restrictions? engine displacement restrictions? etc.

grow up eh?

2DOF - is 2 degrees of freedom

3DOF - is 3 degrees of freedom

most degrees of freedom are 6 usually (for high end flight simulations). and no it's not a local term, it's international.

2DOF comes in the form of either a motion platform or a motion cockpit, 3DOF-6DOF is motion platform only. also options are electric or hydrolic.

I'm building a 3DOF motion platform with electric servos at the moment.

think the plastic one your talking about is based on an old motionless design, its like an inner frame and an outer frame. it'll flex like nothing else. really need metal pipes but it all becomes too heavy for the motors to move it (usually for that setup they use windscreen wiper motors with the gearbox attached still).

oh i just looked at simworx, did they actually move? or just a cockpit to sit in? (motionless)

2DOF or 3DOF?

well he's within his legal right to do it all. he's not braking any laws that I can tell, just moral ones. shitty situation but it happens.

*bump*

the simple fact is they took the cash thinking there was cable there and when the techs got there, there wasn't. its a mistake that happens in lots of countries.

you can work on getting a refund, i have no doubt you could get a refund.

once you get your refund, find a neighbor down the road that has internet, offer to pay for their internet in exchange for putting up a wireless transmitter, and just set yourself up a wireless connection.

then again you could just pay the 9,000 and move on. it's really piss all money and you should at least have nice new cables and a stable connection. i'm sure there's many other things you spend more than 9,000 on that you could do without to pay for it.

don't understand why people moan over small trivial things that don't cost much or take much to resolve.

if you don't like it - leave. it's a country that is lacking infrastructure, controls, regulations, so take that in mind when you're dealing with things.

also, i used to live about 20 mins from the center of the gold coast in Australia (pretty big city), and Telstra wanted to charge me $1,500AU to run a cable from the exchange down the road (100m) to my house. And that was after I had paid for a connection as well. 9,000b is cheap.

yes your partner is.

the old jazz is better, the new jazz seating position is smaller, and the biggest gripe for me is the tiptronic gearbox.

the old vtec jazz you could select to put it into a semi-manual mode and it'll stay there for as long as you wanted, and you had control over the gears. the new vtec jazz you select a gear, it'll hold it for about 10 seconds then switch to a higher range gear. useless.

omg why open 7 month old topics about random shit :|

In fairness to the driver, as much as he's being slammed in here, i drove that route twice this weekend and I saw the bus twice, there is a sign with the indicated escape road for buses and trucks to slow them down in case their brakes fail, and he drove up it like he should have. He did a better job than driving it off the mountain, into a tree, into a wall, or into someone / something else.

So he was awake and aware enough to take the emergency exit (it was the only one on the whole route that I saw), however the bus itself should be in question, why did the brakes fail. Even though these buses 'appear' new from their paint scheme, they are really very very old. like 1980's with a new paint job, if you look at the roof which is usually not painted, it's all rusted up.

Anyway, from driving past it, it really does look like he went up it, then the buss rolled down sideways since the poorly constructed emergency exit is actually flat for the first 10, then banks right for the rest which would have caused any vehicle to flip (as the photos above show). The roads agency should also be looked at for it.

i flew back in from australia a week ago, thai airways flight and it was at around 60% capacity, and a certain percentage are connecting to other international flights, so the number was low.

why do people revive these 2 month old topics :|

yeah, i wish the thai baht would crash as well though. :|

$1k AUD is down to 22,500 THB, after bank fees getting it here you're only getting around 21,000THB for the $1k AUD now.

as an aussie with 70% of his income from Aus, it clearly sucks, when is this crazy freefall going to stop. and what's really causing it...

sure the aus dollar was overvalued and what not, but there's got to be something else at play, something big.

not may other countries are falling as hard as Aus against the USD.

http://www.exchange-rates.org/history/THB/AUD/G/180

http://www.exchange-rates.org/history/USD/AUD/G/180

the ocean1 racing team now has new sponsors... i'd assume that front page ad was 6-months pre paid for a cheaper rate.

i have no idea what your talking about, what a covent garden is, a glasgow barras or a pitcher.

isnt cat and tot the same company?

anyone know when i can find something around the 400cc range?

tattoodrob - the bira carts are 125cc rotax with a sodi chassis. 120kmph. 1000b for 10 mins.

the thepprasit are 100cc yamaha with god knows what old chassis, you'd hit upwards of 80-90km on their high end karts. mostly because the straight is so short, and since the track is so small and tight, the kart doesn't really have any time to get into the power range.

the bira kart track and bira race track are sperate, the kart track is for karting only, the full race track is open for cars and bikes every day except for event days.