KSP USB Control Panel

[Hebel]

Hello, by hacking apart an old usb keyboard I was able to scrap everything in there except the PCB. I scratched off the coating on the pads and soldered wires to each of them. USB keyboards work using a coordinate system where some of the pads are rows and most of them are columns (due to the nature of the shape of the keyboard.) 

I found which two pads to connect to get certain keys: 
W: Pitch up,S : Pitch down, A: Yaw left, D: Yaw right, Q: Roll left, E: Roll right, I: RCS up, K: RCS down, J: RCS left, L: RCS right, H: RCS forward, N: RCS backward, R: RCS toggle, T: SAS toggle, G: Gear toggle, B: Brakes, Z: Full throttle, X: Cut throttle, U: Lights toggle, M: Map view, Backspace: Abort, Space: Stage. 

I bought a bunch of little arcade buttons and found some modular buttons (for z, x, and backspace) and made this enclosure out of plywood and 2x4s and at the lack of a drill battery (not a drill) the screws were screwed in with a screwdriver. 

So yeah, I have a 3D printed throttle lever that I may implement when the weather here gets nicer. But that's this project and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

[sumghai]

[MOD - Moved to the KSP Fan Works subforums, as this is the generally-accepted location for hardware control panels and simpits]

Looking quite nice!

[Freshmeat]

That's a cool control panel, and a repurposed keyboard IC is a wonderfully simple way of doing things. My eyes are getting to old for sub mm soldering, so I tend to buy the IC of ebay for a few euros, but a scrapped keyboard is cheaper. Is the emergency stop switch abort?