Hope no one minds me bringing this thread back. Iāve decided I need to build myself a throttle, not any particular throttle, but one that I can use when I am flying on my laptop in my recliner. I have been out of the hardware game for quite a while and I am really not terribly familiar with whatās out there anymore.
I am looking to have at least:
1 rotational axis or sliding (still trying to figure that out) for the actual āthrottleā portion
1 rotary style controller - probably with a physical stop at each end for a rudder control
2 four-way switches - can also be a set of 4 discrete buttons if I can fit them
1 micro stick - gotta be able to thumb slew
Depending on how much physical space Iāve got in my design I may add a few more buttons to the mix.
What board/chip/microcontroller would you guys recommend I take a look at? I know it may take couple to handle everything Iām after.
You could do that using a teensy micro controller and my PCB, earlier in the thread, or you could use a bodnar board, like this one.
The bodnar boards are fantastically easy to use, especially if you go for the slightly more expensive versions that have solder less wire clips,
Total plug and play
This one I used ā¦
Excellent, thank you gentlemen. Glad to see Leo is still in the business.
+1 for Bodnar. No programming, and stupid simple to use. Iāve used them for several controller projects, as it kept me out of the weeds on Arduino stuff. Not that those are hard to use either, itās just that the Bodnar is so easy that it kept my focus on getting the project done in the limited time I have available.
Bodnar boards are absolutely easy to use. I used one for my first project. Been using teensy micro controllers and MMJOY2 for the rest of my projects though, as this is not that much harder to use and there are more customizations avsilable.
I am about to start building myself a button box for DCS. I want a numeric keypad, a directional controller, at least two rotaries, and a row of selector buttons. A landing gear handle is on the wishlist as well.
I used one of these for the interface ā¦ should have all the inputs you want and is easy plug and play, all you need to do is wire up the switches and rotaries it even has some analogue inputs
Looking at it now. Started to part out my thingā¦ and wow those costs add up quickly! 
there are cheaper ways ā¦ like using arduino boards but when i looked into it this seemed to be the easiest option, and if you have a 3d printer life is a lot easier 
Troll,
Doing an L39 training sim and wanted to get rid of the throttle part of my HOTAS in favor of a combination of bits mounted to the stick base. Iām looking at some kind of a non-contact throttle function and then the bare minimum to support our training which would be a stock L39 front cockpit gear handle mapped to gear up/down, one on/off switch input for airbrake deployment and three momentary switch inputs I can map to flaps flight/TO/Landing. It would seem your solution would work perfectly and may even have enough IO to do so without a shift register. Are you still supporting us clowns (speaking for myself of course) out here doing hair brained projects?
Note our planes use the stock L39 gear handle but our flap solution relies on front panel mounted push buttons instead of the original (aging and troublesome) latching push buttons.
https://www.east2westaero.com/photos?itemId=joif3e0m4zgbeki3ie0201wrn7ipsc
I love this forum!!!
Hair brained clown project support is my specialty! 
So, this is what you need:
1x Throttle angle sensor
6x Switch inputs
The main PCB that holds the Teensy2 microcontroller supports 2 shift registers with 8 input each.
Iād be honored to support your project with this!
given the relatively trivial/low cost of the promicros,
surely having one more (in proximity to the TLE) wouldnāt break the bank?
(apologies if i ass-u-me) 
one of the reasons we took up using the pro-micros was (outside of their teeny-weeny size)
their relative inexpensiveness, certainly compared to the TLEās where were considerably more each. 
Few weeks ago in a moment of madness and a good sale on steam I bought the mosquitoā¦ now two piston engines ideally require more inputs than my wort hog throttle, so I decided to get my old X56 throttle out of storage ( by storage read cupboard under the stairs)
I knew it had a faulty pinky switch due to a broken wireā¦ easy I thought ā¦ just cut the wire solder in a new piece and heat shrinkā¦ but the horrors I found on opening up the much used thing and the disgusting greaseā¦
So itās gone from a quick solder job on one wire to complete disassembly and work on about 8 or 9
sorry for the not great pics
I donāt get HID manufacturers. In this day and age, pots and the associtated hardware canāt possibly be any cheaper than hall effect sensors.
i wonder how feasible it would be to convert it to hall effect ā¦ 
Quick video to show how the stresses in the wires
Edit damn the file is too big ā¦ ah fixed it
Thats an awful design!
Thatās pretty much what I thought ā¦ so if any of you guys out there are using x56 and buttons start to be a bit intermittentā¦ that could be the start of some interesting times