I'll get it done, but it'll be another couple months. I have a big thing dominating my time until mid-May, but should be able to finish it then. I did get some reasonable small quantity pricing on the electronics this will need. The only "engineering" problem I haven't solved is how to hold the case together.
Problem with the original is they use a nylon screw and bushing to just clamp both sides together and that sandwiches all the other parts, including the display. That's great, but the screws look dumb on the outside and I don't want them. The holes on the outside look dumb, too, but I'm planning on doing full cabinet side decals to hide those. Gluing the cabinet together instead is easy, but that will "capture" the electronics and make it non-repairable later if they die. So that sorta bugs me.
I'm also not sure how much detail to put into the control panel. Doing a flight stick is going to be super hard that looks good. I'm still thinking on whether it's worth trying to get something 3D printed. I have a printer, but the resolution just isn't good enough on what I have to do something that small. I might just paint the stick that comes with the tinycircuits setup blue and call it good. If the fact that it doesn't match my Tron minicab close enough bothers me, I could just make a Tron version of *mine* and then sell my other one, too. *shrug*
Once I get mine done, I'll come up with some kind of small group buy. All costs will be posted up front, it'll just be a nominal deposit, etc. But don't worry with "put me down for one" now. I'll do a call out when it's time and give everyone plenty of time to get in. I don't expect there will be more than ten of you. If there is, well, I'll worry about that then.
--Donnie