Custom joystick for Star Citizen

[ser...@gmail.com]

I'm looking to make a custom throttle using a USB joystick board and an expression pedal. A quick Google gives some useable parts, I was looking for any suggestions on this project.

I'd also like to look into designing a foot-controlled device for strafing. All I can imagine right now is a platform for your feet mounted on a ball-and-socket joint, but I'm not sure what kind of sensor you'd use to control that. The foot-throttle I want to build is a simple potentiometer, so that basically solves itself. This would mean learning how actual joysticks work.

[Xevious]

I've seen some pretty interesting stuff on there.  Check around the Hardware formus on RSI - a guy actually got a REAL throttle from a decomissioned F-15 Eagle and converted it into a functional USB throttle!