A High School Student Built This Surprisingly Capable Flight Simulator

Do you call up how you spent your in high spirits school years ? Odds are you were more implicated with your societal status than actually doing something useful with your lifetime . Not Dominick Lee . rather of party and return he design , built , and program animpressive depressed - budget flight simulatorthat ’s get going to all but guarantee him entry into any college applied science programming he likes .

tack from plastic PVC tobacco pipe and powered by just a twain of pneumatic pistons , the LifeBeam sim can move and tilt a full 40 degrees , so it ’s just as up to as simulators cost 10 of thousands of dollar . But with an Arduino - based system coordinate the moves between the pilot film ’s behind , the joystick , and the flight sim , the LifeBeam could be built by anyone .

In fact , Lee has even posted a comprehensiveInstructableif you want to do just that . But if you ’d rather just think about how coolheaded it would be instead of in reality doing it , we completely sympathise . [ LifeBeam FlightSimviaDamn Geeky ]