Skip to 50 seconds in the video and check out the homemade NASCAR simulator and then a homemade flight sim!… The maker writes…
“built from pvc pipe ,junk, spare parts, engineering findings and driven by 4 modified industrial vacum cleaner motors. off a 12 volt car battery. it will run any game made, as it’s really just a sit-in force feedback motorized joystick….”
The maker also sent in…
*The flight Sim Project:*
You ever have a dream that just once, you could really make something crazy– something completely unrealistic, something that would be really COOL?
My dream, and as dreams tend to rub off on people, the dream of the group of guys our Girlfriends and wives call “The Lost Boys”. we get together during weekends , bring our computers hook up to the LAN and play computer games, browse the internet, or whatever suits us, and between rounds of running in an online “Nascar 3″ race (a racing game that can be played over the internet) I was browsing web pages, under Driving simulators.
This search led me to some obvious places, a page to Star tours, to a company that make those devices, to the simulators at NASA and Whitesands naval air base, and I came across a tiny reference to acesim,a home built flight motion cockpit. I’m thinking to my self, self, that’s pretty cool, I should build one of these…. I showed it to Jerry Storvik, who is a ex-rececar driver and owner of a Dental Vacuum suction manufacturing company, and he decided that is was indeed, really cool, and that it really needed to be fully enclosed, and bigger, and stronger, and be able to rotate in any direction, and motorized… etc…..
Thus our sim was conceived, the following links take you to the various days we spent building the device, and doing testing and adjustments to it.. anyway, its a very cool thing, if I do say so myself.
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We thought no one would be able to supplant Dick Trickle in our hearts as our favorite NASCAR driver, but we'd like to announce that the top slot now belongs to Carl Edwards, who just discovered that [..] 
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Driving, Business
Fans of high speed circular driving and pre-owned video games will be pleased to see a familiar sight at the NASCAR Nationwide Series at the Dover International S [..] 
Getting in a frenzy from all the press releases and new product images of the Storm? Settle down, RIM has a quick fix for ya. Head on over to RIM’s website and download yourself a copy of the new Blackberry Storm Simulator. Indulge yourself and give the touchcreen UI a thorough test run. Be warned [...] [..] 
The McLaren MP4-22 Mercedes (foreground) edging out the Ferrari F2007 (rear) Photo: LAT Photographic
Unlike Nascar, which keeps the field evenly matched by restricting what race teams can do to their cars, Formula One is all about fine-tuning the vehicles. There are a few general regulations (called the formula), which dictate things like the number of [...] [..] 
