Elite Dangerous Simple-ish cockpit build.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Just a very basic/simplistic way to build a makeshift cockpit that makes playing Elite Dangerous a very immersive experience.
The video is mediocre a best. Maybe one day I’ll explain/film it better.
I wasn't sold until you turned on the backlight. Wow what an impact that makes. Your "cheap" cockpit punches well above it's weight.
HAHA Thanks!
Yup, it sure looks pretty cheap in the daylight. But man, it sure rocks when it’s on in the dark.👍🏻
This is an amazing project. Once you turn on the lights 💡. It’s like you are inside a spaceship 🚀. Dam. Amazing work, & your dedication.
I have this big dream build with a sim chair and everything, but right now I’m just a Controller and a screen, but Buddy! You just brightened my day, cause Some Plywood and Keyboards and Markers and other ends and bits can Start the beginning of the dream build, I can feel I’d appreciate elite more with something simple like that.
Go for it! PS4 doesn’t allow much keybinding to stuff like peripherals , keyboard and toggles/switches like PC does. It’s the only reason I went with a simple build.
If I was playing on PC I would have for sure had lots more working elements on the build.
Good luck and have fun!! 07
@@vassdesign9021 I’m on Xbox one with Keyboard support, amazing Experience! But hopefully that cross play comes and we come across each other in the Black 07
Awesome build!! That is everything I was hoping to accomplish in my "inexpensive" setup. I've been planning mine for a year, gathering up items to incorporate. Hoping to get it built this year. Nice job!!
Very simple, and yet very effective. Blacklight use is really inspiring for my future cockpit plans. Nice!!
@@williamsaloka9043 Thanks!!
That’s awesome! I love how you coloured the details in by hand with highlighters. Looks really good.
Thank you for the inspiration.... How the hell did I not think of making it in wood. I´m 2 failed prints from loosing my mind learning 3D printing.... Old school just works, great job.
@@PerN1660 haha go for it!
Thats so effective, fairly simple and clever. Well done! I like it.
This should be getting WAY more views. You've made something that's your own, looks fantastic and costs WAY less than shop gear. Unbelievably impressed and will be unashamedly using your design as inspiration for my personal build. Cheers, man.
Haha, thanks! Love to see what you come up with!
That looks F’n amazing! I just showed Hunter and Dawson your Gaming video first. Immediately afterwards, I showed them the setup lit. And said that is what you play with. They were both stunned. They couldn’t understand how you could have afforded to have such an awesome computer setup. And then I showed them how you made it. Brilliant. Really. Thanks for making the video!
Kellington Link 😉
You have done really well and it looks very effective.
You pulled off the illusion! Nice job
ive never been more jealous in my entire life! thats awesome good job man!
That is an awesome job commander, have fun in the black.
Pedro Rocha Thanks Cmdr!
Why can I NEVER hear the words "paint it black" or anything remotely similar like "painted black" and not get that song stuck in my head...
i don't even play the game and suddenly I want this cockpit
You get a lot with almost nothing, Congratulations!!! really impressed
It's really cool because it's actually how consoles are lit on some military vessels, with blacklights shining down on them
Dude! This is awesome. I thought i had a thing going with mine, but you've given me some incredible ideas.
Awesome! I still wish i did a better video
Brrrrro. Thats so wild, If I weren’t marrying soon, Id be at Home Depot today 😂🔥🔥
Hahaha. Thanks man. It’s years old now and collecting dust behind a door, as I don’t play ED anymore. Good times. The wife enjoyed watching me play haha
@@vassdesign9021 Hahah I see, well I was planning something like this but for X4 Foundations. In any caseI hope I earn enough points to have wife watch me play too 😂
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.
Mate - this is fantastic - very well done - it's ingenious!
WOW - SUPER COOL! The nerd in me is already thinking of upgrades, like turning some of those fake buttons into real buttons. I have been watching videos on building button boxes, and it would be easy to incorporate those into this awesome cockpit. I had no idea a black light would make that much of a difference.
I would too if I was on PC. This setup was for PS4, and PS4 doesn’t allow you to “bind” external things. Otherwise, yeah, I’d be all over that. 👍🏻
Pretty awesome, would love to make a cockpit myself one day. One thing I'd love to do, but not sure if possible, is to use two tablets, hooked up to the game, to the left and right panels (systems and nav). So I don't have to do the "look left" and "look right" thing to get at them. This is sweet tho
Love it. A man after my own heart. Want something? Fabricate. Excellent.
"This video is mediocre at best"
I disagree!
IMO this is at the top quarter segment of 'look at my gear' videos on youtube, in terms of quality.
What stands out?
+ Sound and voice is clear
+ Camera movements are balanced, smooth and stable
+ No effing music overlay
+ Non vertical video ;)
Not to miss out on saying it is a gorgeous project and excellently executed.
Thanks man! I was actually somewhat unhappy with the video, and hope to do a better one, but it’s nice to hear that it’s appreciated! Cheers!
hohohooo, hoooly sh!t! that's gorgeous... and a top bonus: I never knew about the blacklight magic :O I need to get one right away ♥
Builds an entire cockpit, calls it simple
Understatement is an understatement
😂
Bloody brilliant job. Good on you fella!
Just dont sneeze on it
Вау, это очень круто! Да, выглядит просто и местами простовато, но при этом обладает своим уникальным духом, атмосферой и стилем. Мне понравилось, как действительно просто всё сделано, без лишних заморочек и усложнений.
Наверняка я не буду делать подобное для себя самого, но мне просто приятно от того, что кто-то получает столько удовольствия от игры, что решается на подобное.
Feel like you might be stretching the word "simple", my set up my mouse and keyboard on my desk with my monitors lol
Well, at least you have more than one monitor
I just use a Xbox controller
Rogue System labels, eh? I see you too are a fellow man of culture. :P
Seriously though, this is super slick and something I think a lot of people could build in a day or so.
man what a labor of love. Very sick!
Awesome work, bet it's a lot of fun! o7
Thats pretty cool buddy! good job!!
Wow this is amazing 😊💯
Wow, good job! This is so cool!
Very impressive!
simple but brilliant...love it!
Great job, really impressive and must be great for immersion. Good on you and thanks for sharing design. 07 Cmdr.
nice work dude -- maybe more on the printed panels and the marker?
woooww thats amazing .. ans ya you should sell those thats amazing good job cmdr thats trully amazing
You should build and sell those, it's amazing.
Very creative, love it!
I dig the concept and simplicity. Personally id try and make sure any and all extra screens are actually tied into the game in some way or another, such as for looking up Plat prices and places to sell them or other such things.
This is years old now, but thanks. This was for PS4, which you cannot connect peripherals to. Had it been on PC that I was playing, I would have 100% connected all sorts of systems to the game. The tablets did work real time with sourcing for goods online to help plot routes, but mostly it was all just for looks and resources.
Thanks!
@@vassdesign9021 no problem, I've been on my semi annual elite kick the last week and have been scouring the internet for nice homemade setups for inspiration on something I'd likely never actually make
That's pretty awesome!
A+ prop making my dude!
This is gold
This is rad bro
cool designs man
Outstanding
I like it. Good job.
and now there is the cool app (which got a free-unpaid version too!) GAMEGLASS
so you can run those apps on multiple devices and actualy have a real use of the touchscreens on that board!
Jeez, I am playing with this idea of making some sort of cockpit (actualy, since I am a builder, carpenter, I think about a whole damn room made as interior of one of the ED ships ♥ )
but I thought I am foolish one and none does such things aside my crazy brain... how wrong I was! ♥
Heck I’d do it to! Always said if I was rich I’d build a full spaceship to live in haha.
Seriously though. I would.
Thinking about doing a similar build - was wondering specifically how you went about printing all the blacklight reactive cutout false buttons? The final effect looks great
o7 Salute Captain. Well done.
One quetion: How much, and when can I get one. Ok, that's two questions, but then I'm a video game player and not an accountant.
This is very creative and looks super well done! This setup looks great for roll playing, but I recommend you now invest on a PC, so that those tablets you have could be used in-game instead of just be playing aesthetic videos!!! Imagine having usable MFDs instead of using button combinations on your HOTAS!
thats awsome. looks great. if you are using pc you can use the roccat app and have some functionality to the smart phone or tablet
AWESOME 👌
looks cool. kinda disappointed its 90% useless stuff for looks but its a cool thing to show your friends and family
Only because it’s PS4. Can’t customize with actual functional switches and toggles like you can on pc. I would have gone for more functionality for sure otherwise.
A fellow Rogue System fan i see. Shame that game never got completed. If only Elite had that kinda of ship simulation it would be epic.
Epic effect!
Can you help me make this with instructions like how you got certain things etc
This'll work for a poor suck as myself. Thanks.
Haha
Well you got me there not bad at all with the materials you had on a budget .you may in time add side panels for other equipment then able to add your three monitors to it that what i would do nice job mate you could also send the pics to Down to earth astronomy who will show them on his youtube channel as he asks for anyone with pics of there build to send pics to him.
Dam that is genious.
Amazing build! If you don't mind me asking but what is that app you are using on your tablet? Looks like a spaceship control panel!
@@TheBearHunter17 thanks! This is years old now, the whole thing is sitting in pieces in a closet now. O believe what you’re talking about was just some computer interface animation I found on TH-cam. Has no functionality other than pleasing to look at.
@vassdesign9021 that helps me alot on what Im trying to do. thank you!
Love it, is that the TFlight 4 HOTAS? I got a Next Level flight rig, and with the power of velcro have got an okay set up. This would really improve things...awesome!
Awesome job o7
Nice work! I really like the combination of highlighters and blacklights! I might steal that solution for my own build. I'm pretty new to the game, and actually use it more as an excuse for the cockpit build, which is my main interest :-)
What you are running on your main tablet?
What are you running on the tablet In The middle
I run a few different things depending on what I’m doing.
I have some computer interface animations that I play just for ambience.
I have a log book that I use to keep notes/findings or just logs.
I use it to access ED apps and web sites for sourcing. Or just use it for browsing the net.
It’s tied into the main keyboard.
creative
Can't wait for some crazy son of a bitch to come along and make a fully functioning cockpit with buttons that ACTUALLY register inputs in the game
Looks very cool :) What do you run on the tablets?
Ikarros The smaller white tablet on the left is solely for aesthetics. It has a few different looping animated computer interfaces for ambience. The main tablet I use for various things. It too, can play animated interfaces, but I use mostly for accessing ED web sites for searching for commodities etc. I also use it to keep a ships log/notes, and some soundboard buttons.
Its cool, but its not functional other than a prop. Have you thought about adding streamdeck or actual functional buttons to make them work?
It’s PS4. Unfortunately you can’t do anything with PS4. If I was on PC, my build would have been quite different. It is mostly for creating a cool environment, but at least there are some functional parts.
@@vassdesign9021 I feel the console struggles for sure
Cool
Nice :)
Does this interact with the game at all?
좋은 생각이야!!!
Just 5376 "simple" steps lol good job
Wait,this on pc right? ...or ps4? 🤔
Unfortunately, ps4. I’d have made it more functional otherwise
The black light really made a difference! how did you get the highlighter parts to look so neat? didyou draw around them with black marker or paint or something?
I had the “panels” printed, and then I drew over the words with a green highlighter marker. Black light picks it up very well.
Meanwhile in VR...
I bought and returned so many HOTAS ONEs for my Xbox all new all updated before hooking it none worked the French company that bought them out is a joke 😑😪
"simple"
Eeehmm.. no entendí ese doble teclado, y esa Tablet para que? y ese celular?? con la calculadora???? solo decoración????? WTF?
me imagino que el panel de botones para asistente de vuelo, tren de aterrizaje y todo lo demás funcione, seria triste y decepcionante que también sea decoración!
That looks so awesome, personally I would personally run a something like ED trade pad on the tablet XD That black light looks so good such a amazing build! good work!!