My nephew Amos and I have been working on an interesting sim racing project this summer. We're building a set of pedals patterned after Todd Cannon's CST pedals. The key factor in these pedals is that the brake pedal operates a load cell rather than a potentiometer.
This is turning out to be quite a substantial project. We decided to build a hybrid of Todd's original DIY pedals and his current production pedals, but without any welding or painting. This has required a significant amount of design work.
The load cell and its nearly complete actuation mechanism is shown in the photo at upper right. At lower right the not-quite-complete clutch and brake pedal units sit on a scrap wood mockup of the planned floor stand, built for the purpose of verifying pedal height and angle relative to the floor.You can read more about the project and see lots more photos at my blog, Amos and Alison's DIY CST Pedals. Actually you might want to start at the first post, Building a Set of Load Cell Pedals.
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