Building your own sim racing gear at home usually means ordering bags of M5 socket bolts, hunting down skate bearings, and wiring up load cells on a workbench. Independent hardware maker Vuk—who runs the one-person workshop MandićLab—just took a totally different swing at DIY sim gear with a 3D-printable ecosystem called Easyrace.
Released on October 28 as a downloadable digital file pack, Easyrace bundles three core peripherals into one home printing project: the Easysteer wheel, the Easydrive pedal set, and the Easyshift H-pattern gearbox. The hook that makes it stand out in the maker scene is that the entire assembly snaps together without a single metal screw, nut, bearing, or coil spring.
Clever Engineering for the Home 3D Printing Crowd
Instead of metal fasteners and hardware-store coil springs, MandićLab engineered the parts around printed snap-fits and polymer flex geometry so anyone with a standard home FDM filament printer can print and assemble the entire setup without specialist workshop tools.
Obviously, a fully plastic 3D-printed wheel and pedal set is not trying to trade lap times with an 18 Nm direct drive servo or a 100 kg hydraulic brake pedal bolted to an Advanced SimRacing rig. Relying on printed polymer compliance rather than steel springs and ball bearings has natural limits when it comes to long-term wear and heavy foot pressure.
Grassroots Projects Still Drive Innovation
Projects like Easyrace keep the grassroots tinkering spirit of sim racing alive. If you already have a 3D printer sitting on your desk and a spool of PETG or PLA+, printing a working H-pattern shifter or starter pedal set for a younger family member without a trip to the hardware store is a seriously cool weekend build.
