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Simpit made from cardboard on a budget mainly used to play Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen and plenty of other Space Pew Pew.

A glorified DIY joystick controller with an LCD ("MFDs") and plenty of RGB.

Project page: beko.famkos.net/category/simpi

Edith says: Worked better but got the url of the attachment and not of the first link in the message 🤔

Image by BekoPharm, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

@diysimulators

@diysimulators It features:
* DIY headtracker
* DIY button box with LCD display
* DIY status indicators
* Lots of plumbing with Node-Red
* Arduino Mega with a custom Rust daemon for driving the joystick and LEDs
* A custom written ReactJS "App" to drive the "MFDs"
* …and a Linux PC to power all the crazy 🤪