Because I like to overcomplicate things, I decided I wasn’t going to buy a pre-made sim racing cockpit. Instead, I designed and built my own 40x40 aluminium extrusion rig that can hot-swap between a racing setup (wheel + pedals + hall-effect handbrake) and a flight sim setup (Logitech X56 HOTAS). The whole point was customisability: I’m 6'4, most off-the-shelf rigs look cramped, and if I’m going to dedicate a worrying amount of space to a rig, it had better do both racing and flying properly. In the video I walk through the design (modeled in an online extrusion tool), the parts list, and the custom 3D-printed bits I made on my Bambu Lab P1S (plus resin prints on the Mars). The key piece is my right-angle sleeve mount with custom “pin bolts” so the HOTAS mounts slide in, line up, and lock—solid, repeatable, and no spanners required. Once built, I test it in Assetto Corsa (including drifting with the proportional handbrake) and then swap to Ace Combat 7 to show the flight conversion. Final takeaway: it’s sturdier and quieter than my old desk-mounted setup, it’s ridiculously fun, and it came out cheaper than I expected for what you get.