o7 Commanders!
First of all I am relatively new on this forum, therefore I hope this didn't exist already (made a quick search and it seemed fine), if it does please feel free to delete this post.
So I recently bought a HOTAS setup for Elite (I was playing with keyboard and mouse in VR, pretty happy already), but didn't like the position of the devices on my desk since they were too high for me (and compared to the in-game avatar). Additionally my desk doesn't have much space, anyways...
Basically I wanted to get something like this:
Looks great, the problem: price :O
So I decided to build mine, with the following constraints:
- $20 max
- quick to build (1h max, including 45min to go to the shop (ok I'm exagerating a bit here but seriously buying the components is probably what takes most time))
- no "workshoping" skill required
And this is what I came up with (inspired from here):
It's very stable (the HOTAS are screwed on the plywood boards) while I also wanted the whole thing to be easily removable without tools (only there when I play, the rest of the time it's behind the pink bin, I don't want to look too nerdy when I invite people at my place [noob]).
Some more pictures to see better how it's built:
What you need:
- 6 L-shaped metal bars
- 2 160x210mm plywood boards
- a bit of any anti-scratch material you can find
- a few screws
In addition to that, I was missing some "central feedback" with the Thrustmaster throttle since I wanted to have the throttle as full range rather than forward only. I found a pretty nice thread on reddit mentioning the use of velcro for that, did the same here:
What you need:
- a simple sticky velcro
Overall I'm very happy with this final setup. If you have the same problem I had with the HOTAS being too high, this is definitely worth the time and effort [smile]
Fly safe commanders!
First of all I am relatively new on this forum, therefore I hope this didn't exist already (made a quick search and it seemed fine), if it does please feel free to delete this post.
So I recently bought a HOTAS setup for Elite (I was playing with keyboard and mouse in VR, pretty happy already), but didn't like the position of the devices on my desk since they were too high for me (and compared to the in-game avatar). Additionally my desk doesn't have much space, anyways...
Basically I wanted to get something like this:
So I decided to build mine, with the following constraints:
- $20 max
- quick to build (1h max, including 45min to go to the shop (ok I'm exagerating a bit here but seriously buying the components is probably what takes most time))
- no "workshoping" skill required
And this is what I came up with (inspired from here):
It's very stable (the HOTAS are screwed on the plywood boards) while I also wanted the whole thing to be easily removable without tools (only there when I play, the rest of the time it's behind the pink bin, I don't want to look too nerdy when I invite people at my place [noob]).
Some more pictures to see better how it's built:
What you need:
- 6 L-shaped metal bars
- 2 160x210mm plywood boards
- a bit of any anti-scratch material you can find
- a few screws
In addition to that, I was missing some "central feedback" with the Thrustmaster throttle since I wanted to have the throttle as full range rather than forward only. I found a pretty nice thread on reddit mentioning the use of velcro for that, did the same here:
- a simple sticky velcro
Overall I'm very happy with this final setup. If you have the same problem I had with the HOTAS being too high, this is definitely worth the time and effort [smile]
Fly safe commanders!
Makes for a much nicer finish.
