Button Box

This is the button box I made for a flight sim (DCS). It can be used for other games as it is just a USB controller when wired up with an arduino pro micro. The one that I made with this has 40 buttons.

The main parts have spaces to fit standard mini toggles (I used (on)off(on)) x 10, standard full size toggles (again I used (on)off(on)) x 2, standard rotary encoders x 5, an on off standard toggle x 1, a bespoke 18 mm illuminated push button for a 5 mm LED and a switch guard (one in a vertical orientation and one in a horizontal orientation), a bespoke landing gear lever (in the style of a Mig29 or SU27/SU33), a bespoke 6x2 autopilot button array (in the style of Mig29) with LED illumination from 3 mm LEDs and finally a 23 mm panel mount momentary button (like the emergency stop button).

The landing gear lever assembly is designed for 2 standard 7 mm latching push buttons with the internal hook removed to make them sprung loaded momentary buttons.

The autopilot assembly is de