Do a Barrel Roll in This Battlestar Galactica Viper Motion Flight Simulator - embreetheatelf

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So in that location's this group of five high school teenagers from Marin County, Calif. and San Francisco, and they want to body-build a overflowing-on Battlestar Galactica Viper motion-flight simulator for the 2012 Bay Sphere Maker Faire. You can supporte them turn their (my) super-nerdy dream into a reality on Kickstarter.

So far, the radical has order in concert the inaugural part of its Viper fuselage cut from a Piper Public address system-28 aeroplane from the scrap yard. The students let as wel installed a racing seat with a six-point draw rein and few of the cockpit's interior panels. The unharmed thing is strapped onto a steel frame that they designed in Autodesk and a local fabricator professionally welded.

Now they need a little help raising enough money to turn it into a crazy 360-degree-motion Viper flight simulator. The cockpit will be set upwardly connected a motion control platform that bequeath Army of the Righteou it gear up and down and axial rotation–barrelful rolls!

The cockpit testament also be a to the full immersive experience, with joysticks, gun control, three front screens that will show flight footage, and a full instrument panel. Considering that this same team has already made a crew of water-cooled Maker Faire projects, I rich person no doubt they can pull off this off, too.

And in case this alone isn't awesome enough for you, the teens also used Lego and Arduino in their prototyping and testing, as seen in this video.

The aggroup's Kickstarter project has already reached its $2,500 goal but the team could use more financing to meet their full $17,000 project costs. The Viper squad says any extra pledge money will go to help the Young Makers broadcast for subsequent programs.

If you want to maintain with the Viper project, you can visit the group's website and subscribe to to MarinMaker's YouTube groove.

[The Viper: Full-motion flight simulator (Kickstarter) via Gizmodo]

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