I am in the early stages of theorizing the construction of my own switchboard that i can map commands to on the flight simulator game DCS: World. I have put some hours of research into methods of connecting 30-75 different switches to a circuit that will connect to a PC via a USB connection. I have run into some issues surrounding my own lack of experience in doing anything above a GCSE education level (A* Level qualification in electronics). The following problems that i am facing, any help would be extremely appreciated.
1)Connecting 30-75 different switches to a single circuit that would successfully enable me to map them to a command on DCS and function correctly.
2)Having certain switches such as "weapons being armed" and "landing gear being either up or down" displayed via the use of red and green LED's. so using a SPST switch, the downwards position would mean green LED active and the same switch in the up position being gear up and the red LED active.
3) I am surely going to be running into more problems and am already aware of a few others. That being said, i am reluctant to write all of them because this is my first post on AAC and do not know whether the help with be all that beneficial (Sorry XD). But i am ready to be proven wrong.
1)Connecting 30-75 different switches to a single circuit that would successfully enable me to map them to a command on DCS and function correctly.
2)Having certain switches such as "weapons being armed" and "landing gear being either up or down" displayed via the use of red and green LED's. so using a SPST switch, the downwards position would mean green LED active and the same switch in the up position being gear up and the red LED active.
3) I am surely going to be running into more problems and am already aware of a few others. That being said, i am reluctant to write all of them because this is my first post on AAC and do not know whether the help with be all that beneficial (Sorry XD). But i am ready to be proven wrong.