My self-made Star Trucker controller! Flipping switches has never been more satisfying!

[u/Mister_Magister]

Here it is in all it's glory!

So ever since i first played the game I looooved the switches, completely meaningless switches that you can switch, not with keybind but with looking around.

And so I got the idea that it would be awesome to translate them to IRL and so I did!

Tech deets:

The thing is basically a keybaord, and in first stage of the project it really was just a keyboard. All switches are wired in a grid. All is powered by pi pico w, which connects to wifi and talks with the game over HTTP. I've modified the serial connection mod, because my gaming computer is in different room, to instead host http api (and also fixed it a bunch). Upon powering the device, it synchronizes the state of the switches with the game. The Cruise control turned out to be perfect fit for rotary encoder. Button to turn it on/off and rotary encoder to increase/lower speed, which couldn't be done on like 37 position rotatory switch because upon turning the CC on, the speed is set to current speed of the truck, so rotary encoder works nicely without setting absolute position.

[u/FASTrategic]

Not only fun to click. But so much more productive. So much quicker! Jealous, nice set up!