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A project log for Your Personal Flight Simulator

Take some off the shelf parts, some miscellaneous materials, and a couple of dead laptops and make a flight simulator

samernsamern 04/25/2017 at 12:300 Comments

I thought some more about it and I figured I'd re-use some of my old server rack rails. After I virtualized most of my servers, and brought all the hardware home from the CoLo I ended up with a ton of very reliable physical servers and even more rack hardware, not the least of which is some 12 sets of sliding rails, which, if you ask me, are screaming to be used. I thought I could make my simulator rig 'foldable' which will please the family because it can be folded up and stood on its side out of the way. I would use 2 to 4 rails (1 to 2 pairs) of the lockable sliding rails. Here's a sketch, tell me what you think:


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