So over the years, I've toyed with ideas for massive frankenpanels, rotating panels, modular panels ... all of them have been too much to even consider going further on with.
So I've scaled down and scaled down and scaled down again.
This time I am considering a staggered layout including 2 8-way sticks, 1 4-way stick (hopefully rotatable 45 degree for games like Congo Bongo and Q*bert), track ball, tron stick, and spinner. The overall concept I'm going on is a control panel on one of the first two pages of the control panels thread that had all but the Tron controls, and staggering the layout slightly to make adding the new controls slightly more space-friendly.
I'm looking at something roughly like this:
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| SP ST |
| 4W B B |
| |
| 8W B B B 8W B B B |
\ B B B B B B /
\ T /
\ B TBT B /
\ T /
\_____________________________________/
Figured I'd ask for any thoughts on the rough layout, to see if I'm still a complete idiot, or if my thought processes are becoming slightly more reasonable.
(What can I say ... Tron was always one of my favorite games, and the spinner will likely allow for a lot of paddle-style games)
Any thoughts? Any of the controller experts willing to turn my rough 'sketch' into a full-blown properly sized layout?
Or do I just deserve nothing more than a

? I know that's at least possible! (At least the 'drawing' came through all right!)