Home Garage build

[Remoth]

Hey all. New to the site, but I've been lurking for a few months. ever since I started planning my build. Its more of a budget build.

-Carls Place 10x10 preferred screen
- Unistrut frame 10'x9'x4' (donated by my uncle so free!)
- Black medium fabric for sides and top.
- amazon tarp clips and bungee cords
- Used Soccer field tiles for floor. 4'x4' (13 tiles in all)
- BenQ Th671ST projector
- Amazon track light kit
- Amazon kvm extender to connect to pc in basement like this
- cheapo wireless keyboard and mouse
- usb wifi adapter
- Birtees (on the way)
- Mevo Plus (Should be coming anyday now)

My garage has really made a transformation in the last couple months. It used to be full of junk from my now-deceased father. After many trips to the dump and much cleaning, some drywall mud, paint, and some money, its turned into something useful. I think the unique thing about this setup is that I have a gaming PC in my basement and I didn't want to move it out to the garage and really didn't want to buy a second one. So I discovered KVM Extenders. They turn a HDMI and USB signal into Ethernet, then with a 100ft Cat 6 cable to the garage, I can plug in the projector, wireless keyboard and mouse, and Wi-Fi adapter into the KVM box in the garage. This allows the Wi-Fi from the Mevo plus to connect to my PC in the basement (I hope, this is the only thing I haven't tried since not receiving the mevo yet). I also hope to try hooking a USB hub into it to see if that works as well for other things. Mevo should be shipped out any day, cant wait!

Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. The floor is not the greatest for simulator use, but, It was cheap and works good enough for me. someday I'll get a proper hitting mat. Its on the list of upgrades, but after some bathroom renos, a new fridge, and this, I think I'm done for a while. haha. A lot of the stuff I used, I found from others builds on here, so thanks a lot!

[bulldogbrad]

Fascinating idea of using your desktop from the basement. Does your wireless keyboard and mouse connect over that distance without issue?
My winter garage gets cold. This is an option I may have to try to keep the desktop in a warmer space.

[Lucas MacEwan]

Looks pretty good. Nice to do it on a budget also. I bet you can't wait to get the final piece of the puzzle.

[Remoth]

Fascinating idea of using your desktop from the basement. Does your wireless keyboard and mouse connect over that distance without issue?
My winter garage gets cold. This is an option I may have to try to keep the desktop in a warmer space.

The KVM Extender has a USB port on the PC side that plugs into the PC and gives you two USB Ports in the garage. I have them both filled with a Wi-Fi Adapter and the USB antenna for the wireless keyboard and Mouse. I made sure to get a Keyboard and Mouse that are paired to the same USB dongle. IF I had to do it again, I would spend twice as much on the KVM extender and get one that's good for 4K and had 4 USB ports. But I'm hoping to get a USB hub and hook it up to see if it works. The USB ports don't use a lot of bandwidth, so I don't see why it wouldn't work. The dongle for the keyboard and mouse are in the garage with me, so no issues there.

I know I'm missing the simulator part, but just having the hitting bay makes me happier than I was beforehand. Having a foot of snow on the ground and zero chance of hitting balls outside until may, putting some youtube vids on and blindly whack some balls is a lot better than nothing by far. haha.

[Remoth]

The only issue I have discovered with the KVM extender is that it only supports 16:9 video ratios. I don't think its that big of an issue, I just have the projector close enough to fill the screen from top to bottom with the max amount of zoom. This allows for a 4:3 picture to be played in windowed mode and pretty much fill the screen. It takes a little bit of playing with window sizes to fill the screen, but it works. for movies, I can zoom all the way out to allow for the most resolution and its pretty close to shrinking to within the boundaries of the screen.