A software developer by trade, [pgsanchez] is also adept with Arduino and electronics, and his blog post about the PGS-2 Flight Simulator Control Panel demonstrates his fine abilities well ...

The leds and numeric displays are controlled by HID output reports which most flight simulators are unable to use directly, but there are software tools to interface simulator panels with flight ...

Many people enjoy playing flight simulators or making the occasional orbit in Kerbal ... to build a full simulator cockpit is a USB “button box” that you can plug in whenever you need a ...