{"id":107071,"date":"2022-10-25T01:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T01:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/vintage-tank-simulator-drives-around-a-miniature-landscape\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T01:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T01:05:56","slug":"vintage-tank-simulator-drives-around-a-miniature-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/vintage-tank-simulator-drives-around-a-miniature-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Tank Simulator Drives Around a Miniature Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=youtube-video-AcQifPHcMLE&amp;start=0\" data-chomp-id=\"AcQifPHcMLE\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/AcQifPHcMLE\" id=\"youtube-AcQifPHcMLE\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span data-chomp-id=\"AcQifPHcMLE\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/AcQifPHcMLE\" id=\"youtube-AcQifPHcMLE\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"sc-1ptbguh-0 hxeMec caption\">This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">So, you think your <span>iRacing sim rig<\/span> is pretty outrageous, huh?  Sure, it&#8217;s got a full-motion base and it&#8217;s <!-- -->powered by a real hot-<!-- -->rod of a PC, but I&#8217;m here to tell you that your rig is crap and that the Swiss built the ultimate sim rig in the 1970s \u2014<!-- -->to teach soldiers<!-- --> how to drive tanks.  Why they&#8217;d need to, I can&#8217;t say (this is Switzerland, after all), but it&#8217;s cool anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">So, because computers sucked in the 1970s, creating a realistic training simulator using computer graphics wasn&#8217;t really an option.  It would have looked like <span>a shittier Nintendo Virtual Boy<\/span>probably cause a lot of<!-- --> headache,<!-- --> and not really be a benefit to anyone.  Instead, those enterprising Swiss built a huge, room-sized terrain model and fitted a tiny camera to a motorized gantry.  The tank-driver-in-training sits in a recreation of a cockpit, operating a steering wheel, pedals, and switches, and the camera moves around the scale-model landscape based on the driver&#8217;s inputs.  The cockpit sits on top of hydraulic cylinders that jostle the driver as the tank drives over various terrain, adding realism <!-- -->to the <!-- -->experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">This video by <span>YouTuber Tom Scott<\/span> shows how the system works and what the team at the Swiss Military Museum had to go through to get the simulator running again.  Spoiler alert: it&#8217;s powered by a Raspberry Pi.  Wild, I know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">The best part of all this is that you can go to the Swiss Military Museum in Full-Reuenthal, and they&#8217;ll let you try it out \u2014<!-- --> throat mic, headset and all.  That they&#8217;d let the public try this, with it being the only functioning unit in the entire world, is pretty wild. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Also, I have to get some of those dope Alpenflage coveralls.  Call me guys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world So, you think your iRacing sim rig is pretty outrageous, huh? 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