May I present what I'm calling the CHPASS-HOTAS Made over a weekend in a cave with scraps... or rather, Arduino junk I had lying around and $2 at the Dollarama. If I had to buy everything I'd guess this is all about $50 or less depending on your thrifting/scavenging skills. The pedal is just an old guitar volume pedal from my minstrel days. The USB driver is 170 lines of C++ based on the Arduino Joystick library. There's a single MCP23017 port expander in there to get me pins for all my buttons. The switches were fun. Flipping a switch gives a momentary impulse button press. In some cases I bound up and down to different buttons so I can bind UP to door open and DOWN to door closed (for example). Some of the switches push the same button for up and down. Sliders and pedal are all bound to translation and rotation axes because I couldn't get star citizen to pick up the throttle, brake or rudder signals. I'm amazed how satisfying it is to have a physical switch to turn my engines, weapons etc on and off. Future plans include more buttons and maybe lights! Now I can fly fancy like the big kids! UPDATE 03/12/2021: After playing all week with this setup I've made the following changes: Exponential function for velocity limiter slider gives me more control at the lower speeds Moved the mining laser to a slider A vertical thrust knob. This way I can crank my VTOL and leave it hands-off or set it low and glide gently down onto a pad. Auto-ping switch and a dial for the interval. Allows me to hit the ping button at regular intervals (mining is my jam you see) Code: Not gonna say it's my finest and it's been years since C++ was a job requirement but.... it gets it done https://pastebin.com/HrM3P37Q