Hey, I’m building a force feedback joystick with hoverboard motors.
For the driver I had a odrive that let the magic smoke out. Now I’m in the process off building a custom board. Probably with this igbt https://www.mouser.de/datasheet/2/308/1/FNB43060T2_D-2313697.pdf it’s a bit overkill but whatever it’s only 15$.
For the ffb interface I’m using a Arduino Leonardo with this on it GitHub - jmriego/Fino: An Arduino Joystick Library With Force Feedback Feature, the guy over there is pretty responsive, already has a issue opened to support wheels, if you reply to him in there, and tell him that you are interested in support for steering wheels he probably will implement it.
Hoverboard motors with voltage/torque controll are pretty good for ffb because the seam to have very low cogging torque and are about 10Nm of torque.
If you have more questions or are interested in my driver board development, just ask me.