Hope this hekps!
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I also recommend the leo bodner joystick interface. I used that when I built a EFIS for my 737 sim. No programming really to the extent like an arduino board.
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Yes, I saw this in my research. Good stuff!
I have a design and a plan for construction. Iām talking simple and cheap here, made by reforming stock wood and plastic. I already ordered the Leo board and plan on interfacing with it from inside MSFS.
Thanks for your input!
With a group of friends who are passionate about building and pilots of my virtual airline, we developed and manufactured, for our internal team use, a plug and play USB interface device with 128 inputs and 6 axes, based on an inexpensive ARM system using an STM32 bluepill.
The board is seen by your computer as a normal HID device (with its VID and PID) that you can set in MSFS all 128 buttons of the board and the 6 analog axes through the normal MFSF via (control setting)
You can also connect it to Mobiflight, which reads it like any other Hotas Joystick.
The board is managed with a freeware firmware called Freejoy, which allows you to parameterize your joystick with a very simple configurator (Freejoy configurator).
With Freejoy configurator you manage every single button with a wide range of functionalities (togkle on/off, normal button, sequential toggle on/off flp/flop button, encoder mode etc.) or axis (inversion, custom step curve etc.) in a really friendly way.
We have been using it for months not only on MSFS but also on other platforms (Xplane, P3D DCS world) and it is working great.
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