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MONSTERTECH 2019 in Review

Happy new year to everybody!

2019 was the busiest, craziest and most successfull year of all time for us. Thanks to everybody who supported us so far, we will not forget it.

We are lucky that every year since we began this journey in 2015 we were able to grow a lot. We focused all our attention over the last couple of years to make products that fans of all kinds of sim games enjoyed or wanted. We were not always right and could not make every idea a reality but we we were luckily succesfull in some projects.

So what was 2019 like at MONSTERTECH?

We began 2019 with a heavy order backlog from the 2018/2019 christmas season. Altough we tried to build up as much stock as possible before, because we make all our products in house we were not able to make enough.

Last christmas season was so busy and so many orders came in it took us until February to clear that up and get to normal production and shipping times again.

So after that I knew we had to expand our facility fast and grow our team with it. With a good bit of luck we were able to get a lease on another 350m² space in the same building we are in now. We had to wait until October 2019 but we finally could just take a wall out and spill into the place next to ours.

By the end of 2019 we are almost finished setting everything up, expanding the production and hiring more people. Doing that at the same time while keeping up with the ever increasing production and run up to the 2019/2020 Christmas season was hard but will pay off big this coming year.

So we are again behind with the production after Christmas this year but we are in a far better position than last year. But the new space will also make some other things much easier in the future.

  1. We will have a dedicated show room space for our Sim Rigs and other products. So if you want to come by and check out something, have a test flight or qualifying round or just have some coffee with us, just send us a message and come by. (Hannover – Germany)
  2. On of the things I personally really want to invest a lot of time in in 2020 is the video content. This is my personal goal of the year: “to make interesting and entertaining videos”. So I will have a small dedicated video room for that, yay!.

The beginning of 2020 will be focused on catching up on open orders and finishing up the renovation. I will keep you posted with a walkthrough as soon as possible.

Our goal of making super high quality gear is still most important to us and will always be our main focus. In 2020 we will try making stuff that is even more cool and fun.

Olsen

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MFD / Tablet Center Mount and Update

Hey guys, we are back with an update video. What products are in development right now…, what is planned… and what is launching soon….

– MFD / Tablet Mount for the Joystick / HOTAS Desk Mounts v4.

– New MFD Center Mount

– Pitch Adjustment Bracket

– New chairs compatible with the Joystick / HOTAS Chair Mounts

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SIM RIG MTX BETA TEST

We just launched our first beta test of our new Sim Rig MTX line. The biggest project we have done so far. Dozens of new products, hundreds of renderings, complete website rework and more…

I am sure there are still a lot of bugs in the Customizer and the product pages but I just could not wait any longer. 🙂

Let me know if you find something that should be different.

Olsen

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Noblechairs compatible

Thanks to the continuing help from the community in the MONSTER FOUNDRY we have made another gaming chair brand compatible with the Chair Mounts: Noblechairs!

Our good friend Mitch provided all the details and measurements the Noblechair armrests. Here is him reviewing and assembling the Chair Mounts.

I am always blown away by the support and creativity in the MONSTER FOUNDRY. Big thanks to everyone who is contributing.

Cheers
Olsen

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MONSTERSHOW – THE BEGINNING

My dream when founding MONSTERTECH was of course to build a successful company with great products but one that was also fun to work for and most important a company that was fun and interesting for the customer.

I think we managed well so far. We are proud of our work and products, we enjoy working hard in making innovative and creative new stuff and we try to interact with our customers as much as possible.

But like any other good company we are not at all satisfied with the current status. That is why after an incredible busy and stressfull 2017 and early 2018 I will try to focus a lot of my energy in creating a better experience for customers, friends and anbody else who is interested in creating stuff.

Words are of course easy so here is the first new try in making the MONSTERTECH MONSTERSHOW a reality.

If you would like to help out, join the MONSTER FOUNDRY. The creative spirit and ideas that the community there already graciously donated is mind blowing. I hope I can make them justice in the future.

Olsen

NEW PRODUCTS AVAILABLE:

SWIVEL ADAPTER SET CHAIR MOUNT

QUICK RELEASE SET CHAIR MOUNT

PROFILE 7CM FOR MOUNTING PLATES

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A place for MFDs and Tablets

A “real” cockpit needs more than just a stick and throttle. Most times you can not have enough buttons and secondary screens for the best experience. Here comes the ultimate solution in sophisticated high-tech simulation equipment: THE MONSTERTECH MFD AND TABLET MOUNTS. Available in stealthy black and shiny silver.

The mounts come with attachment holes for Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs and self-adhesive 3M-pads for secure tablet attachment. The mounts will stay safe even in high-g maneuvers!

Insane double MFD setup for maximum control!

Production Update April 2017:

We also have very handy clamp spacers to help table mounts attach to some weirder tables. 3D printed in house!

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Shifter / Handbrake Table Mount

For the longest time we wanted to make table mounts for racing equipment and now we finally started that project.

The first part is the table mounts for shifters and handbrakes. Thrustmaster was kind enough to support us with an early model of the TSS Sparco Mod Handbrake and Shifter, which was super helpful in getting it done in time.

At the moment we are supporting the following systems:

  • Fanatec ClubSport Shifter
  • Heusinkveld Sim Shifter
  • Logitech G25/G27/G29/DF Shifter
  • Thrustmaster TH8A Shifter
  • Thrustmaster TSS Handbrake/Shifter

The next planned part will be a table mount option for wheels but we are still in the planning phase for that.

Hope you like it!
Olsen

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A new product line

After months of work we are finally happy to announce that we launched our new product line last week: The MONSTERTECH Chair Mounts.

Since we started making Sim Rigs and Table Mounts we were contacted if we couldn’t make mounts for an office chair. It is a natural place for a joystick and HOTAS system but the problem was: ‘How to make mounts that are compatible with more than one chair’? Well it took us quite some time but we finally found a way to solve our problem.

We realized that many of the current gaming/office chairs seats and armrests are actually quite similar and allow us to support a lot of different chair brands with only some variations to our attachment system.

Actually we are switching out only one part on the armrest base and exchange it for our specialized piece. This gives us a sturdy and stable attachment point for the profiles we use for our mounts.

Currently we are supporting three brands of gaming chairs:

  • DXRacer
  • Maxnomic
  • Secretlab

Our goal is to support as many chair brands as possible. On the horizon are Noblechairs, Vertagear and even possibly IKEA. But many more are possible. If you would like to help us finding out which brands we can support, check this thread in the MONSTER FOUNDRY.

Here are a few pictures with a Maxnomic chair and a T16000FCS setup. Of course they are also available for every other joystick and throttle.


Maxnomic Classic OFC with two MONSTERTECH Chairs Mounts and a Thrustmaster T16000FCS HOTAS setup.


As with our other products we have specialized mounting plates for almost all joysticks and throttles on the market.


The Chair Mounts are seamlessly adjustable in height, width and distance from the armrests.

Here is a video with a talking weirdo.

Hope you like ’em.

Cheers
Olsen

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Happy Monstertech 2018

Happy new year everybody. We are finally back in full force and we will be doing our best to make 2018 the most fun and exciting year for MONSTERTECH ever.

Right now we are moving into our new and very own production facility in Hannover. This will allow us to improve our production and output heavily. The times of delays are hopefully over soon.

We will also push hard on videos and projects this year.

The plan is also to update our Sim Rig line, beginning with a full customized Star Citizen Sim Rig build series at the end of January. But that is of course not all, we have a completely new product in the pipeline that is almost ready. Very excited to see if you guys like that one.

We also have been working on getting our products to our customers easier and cheaper. We will start with North America of course. I can not say to much about this yet but if this works out it will be really awesome.

Sorry for being so absent last year but that gave us a lot of time to prepare for a crazy exciting 2018.

Happy building
Olsen