USB Lotfe 7 bombsight controls

[hegykc]

Designing the Lotfe 7 bombsight for my He-111 simpit.
It will bi cut from plywood or mdf, by a laser cutter or a waterjet.
I'll try to hook the buttons and rotary encoders up to a cheap joystick or a gamepad control board .

Almost finished with the altitude adjustment wheel.
The gears are designed so that a full circle on the wheel translates to 600 clicks on the rotary encoder. That's what the game has modeled for altitude adjustment, one click for every 10 meters up to 6.000.

It also features "clickers", soft ones for every 100 meters and harder ones for every 1.000 meters.
And a limiter, so that the wheel only turns 360 degrees.

So there'l be no need to watch those blue in-game massages.
The value on the wheel will correspond to the value in the game.

The wheel might be cut from plexiglass and engraved, so that the lettering can be illuminated.
What would be the coolest thing ever, is if I could get the bombsight view on a 15" 17" monitor and a reticule to look through, now that would be a real bombsight.

I'm designing this in a 3d CAD program so there'l be no real "build progress" pictures. Once I complete the design on a computer, I just send the files to be cut on a machine, and than just assemble the pieces.

Some 3d renderings of the altitude adjustment module: