We’re starting to experiment with advanced force filters that attempt to reconstruct the force that it would be in high update rate despite of low game udpate rate. In the pic, the red curve is a simulated force setpoint at 60Hz update rate (iRacing freq) and blue is after reconstruction at 2500Hz. We’ll try this on hardware very soon.
In the example case the source signal is a sort of triangle wave at 60Hz rate. The output looks smooth triangle wave without losing the sharpness of the turns.
Oh man, can’t wait to get my hands on this new shiny piece of software. Keep up the good work guys!
Just last night I supplied Tero with some real data from iRacing. Can’t wait to test out an optimized version of his filter.
Yes, great news and finally now seeing what we discussed at SimExpo last year, Tero. This is exciting stuff, will make very big difference to the 60hz aliased ffb we get from iRacing.
Good times ahead!
Great Job Mika and gang!!
Hello again.
Because of Juhannus, the midsummer holiday in Finland, we weren’t able to give you an update last week.
We have found and fixed bugs as found in our internal testing. A few USB wires were broken in the process, as MMOS uses inverted force signaling to the wheel, and our firmware did not. We changed that to the same as MMOS so everyone’s setup will work correctly. Also implemented now is the button that applies new force % and steering angle limit settings to the firmware, and now they also work correctly.
We have also now tested Tero’s new filter implementation with iRacing, and it feels fantastic, it removes all the 60Hz artifacts but the spikes still come through very, very nicely. The feel in iRacing is somewhat different because of that, but after yesterday’s Blancpain Endurance Series race, I think I love it!
This week I think we will add an example filter to firmware code if someone ever wants to do filters in there, implement Ioni filter settings (including Tero’s new filter) in the Configuration software, and start to do rFactor2 force effects. Beta will happen after these, we are getting close!
Exciting times! Thanks for the update, Mika. 
Mid week update: rFactor 2 effect was simple to do. Not so on rFactor 1, which seems to output much, much more complicated stuff. Didn’t try rFactor 1 with RealFeel, which is supposed to be better, and after seeing what rFactor 1 tries to do, I can certainly believe that!
I also got debug from Dirt Rally, which seems easy enough to do as well.
So, we will launch with the following support in the first beta releases: iRacing, rFactor2, and Dirt Rally (to be confirmed). Other games might still have unexpected results, such as full force left/right at unexpected situations.
Now, just need to add some configuration/UI tool stuff, confirm that saving settings to flash works after all recent changes, and we are good to go…
Very cool! Keep going
Nice stuff 
Can hardly contain my excitement!!
Today was spent on fixing some drive initialization state machine bugs and peculiarities, and I added a dialog for motor config selection. Now, a fresh flash of the firmware to an empty SimuCUBE board with a configured Ioni drive will work, and tomorrow I will try test that settings saving to/from flash stuff so the user doesn’t have to do the wizard every time.
In another news, the 
has appeared here in Finland.
Really good progress and inching closer to beta release. Well done, Mika, Tero and Team, following this with vigour.
Plus, very happy the sun has finally decided to show itself - wishing you a nice and sunny weekend!
Hyvää viikonloppua!
Today, I’m fixing some bugs related to setting wheel center / offset automatically at bootup.
Also, we have started Australian monkey-in-the-loop testing.
Very very excited about this. Such good times coming =)
How does it feel Beano? Tell us!! Hehe
Beano does not have the special filter Tero has been developing, as it is implemented in the Ioni firmware. Only I have that special version
Beano’s system should feel exactly the same as the 3rd party firmware without any filtering.
As Mika says, feeling now is the same as MMoS pretty much ;). For it to be feeling this good, this early, is indicative of things to come. Open source fw is only starting our, with a Mika doing a super job.
MMoS fw has been stagnating for the past 18 months, as Michael has informed me via email that he won;t be doing regular updates to it, I knew then that, as good as it was, it will go stale against the progress other wheels will be making…
OS FW will change much though with the new Tero filter, quite drastically so - our starting point here is at a great point now, let’s chat again in 2 years time after the community adds to it as well.
Great things ahead, Boyz …
Wonderful!
It is a good time to be alive
Im excited i have a couple of encoders on the way to play with
