Hi all, i recently got into the DD "market" and noticed that while you can easily find nice steering wheels under 60€ (most of them are the same 5-6 rebranded ones from aliexpress), button boxes cost a lot more and unless you have and want to use a sequential shifter, you end up paying almost 300€ for each steering wheel you want to have.
Luckily i have a friend that has a 3d printer and found this site (check it, lots of interesting stuff!) that sells stand-alone and ready to mount magnetic paddles: https://www.3drap.it/product/universal-magnetic-paddles-for-custom-steering-wheels/
I also got this board and buttons from amazon:
-https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B01IQTN1NO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
-https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B081TV622R/ref=crt_ewc_title_dp_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AT0FJ7CZCB0G9
Then i made a cad project of a button box for my wheel (https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B076JCWD75/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1), it supports 4 12mm buttons with 15mm "lock", the paddles and the boardi linked above with holes to be able to lock it with cable-ties in case the holes for the screws aren't good for other similar boards. It also has some "cable management guides" on the back side that allow to also use the horn as a fifth button, and a "hook" for another cable-tie under the "buttons brackets" to lock paddles and buttons cables.
Since this steering wheel should be quite diffused, as most of the other "aliexpress" ones, i was thinking about making some more designs for other people's wheels if there's some interest for it.
Obviously this support won't have the final level of refinement of other button boxes, with exposed cables and board behind it, but i play in VR and only care about functionality and the idea is to offer an affordable option for people that want to have multiple wheels at the price of a single refined one.
Here are some previews of the ready-to-print file, because of lockdowns i won't have the 3d printed version to mount on the wheel for some time, but i can ask my friend for some photos of it unmounted. I already got a "beta" version mounted and working, but it had some problems during the print and i don't want to give a wrong impression of the quality we want to reach.
Luckily i have a friend that has a 3d printer and found this site (check it, lots of interesting stuff!) that sells stand-alone and ready to mount magnetic paddles: https://www.3drap.it/product/universal-magnetic-paddles-for-custom-steering-wheels/
I also got this board and buttons from amazon:
-https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B01IQTN1NO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
-https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B081TV622R/ref=crt_ewc_title_dp_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AT0FJ7CZCB0G9
Then i made a cad project of a button box for my wheel (https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B076JCWD75/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1), it supports 4 12mm buttons with 15mm "lock", the paddles and the boardi linked above with holes to be able to lock it with cable-ties in case the holes for the screws aren't good for other similar boards. It also has some "cable management guides" on the back side that allow to also use the horn as a fifth button, and a "hook" for another cable-tie under the "buttons brackets" to lock paddles and buttons cables.
Since this steering wheel should be quite diffused, as most of the other "aliexpress" ones, i was thinking about making some more designs for other people's wheels if there's some interest for it.
Obviously this support won't have the final level of refinement of other button boxes, with exposed cables and board behind it, but i play in VR and only care about functionality and the idea is to offer an affordable option for people that want to have multiple wheels at the price of a single refined one.
Here are some previews of the ready-to-print file, because of lockdowns i won't have the 3d printed version to mount on the wheel for some time, but i can ask my friend for some photos of it unmounted. I already got a "beta" version mounted and working, but it had some problems during the print and i don't want to give a wrong impression of the quality we want to reach.
