What you see is a glorified DIY joystick controller with a LCD ('MFD') and plenty of RGB inspired by a VF-1 (Block 6) Valkyrie of the Macross franchise.
I use it mainly to play Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, X4: Foundations and plenty of other Space Pew Pew.
It's mobile and can be stashed easily because my battlestation is, unlike most gaming rigs, also my workstation and has to move a lot. It's also frequently occupied by my kids who also love clicky buttons and compete with me for stick time :D
It's completely DIY and made on a budget (no really). It's also Work In Progress, like probably any home cockpit out there.
For the PC it's just a joystick and an additional display. The magic starts to happen when I manage to interface with the games to display live game data and adjust the blinken lights depending on the current ship telemetry.
Am I crazy? Yes, probably. It's a hobby and when Corona happened indoor hobbies became kinda a thing again ๐ค
Edith says: Should have added this from the beginning: I do foster a project website that has additional details, pictures and videos: ๐ https://SimPit.dev (yes it's slow - hold the line :P)
Videos are usually mirrored to ๐น https://tube.tchncs.de/a/bekopharm or ๐น https://www.youtube.com/@BekoPharm (pick your poison).
Additional content may be found on ๐ https://beko.famkos.net/category/simpit/ or on โ ๏ธ https://hackaday.io/bekopharm
You just made my 10yo self massively envious... all I had was a couple cardboard boxes, fake dials, some blinkenlights, DIY switches and paper code cards, and some paper tube graphite heaters fed from an old high voltage TV cap that I'm still unsure how didn't set the whole thing on fire.
my first version was cardboard too and I also call it my little fire hazard ๐ The backside is really ugly. Thanks for your comment. My 10yo self is very proud and happy that I finally built this.