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
Heh, personally I enjoyed the space trucking in E:D and don't like NMS all that much. E:D's more realistic aspects like the physically modeled solar systems and their ridiculous distances, let alone the distances between stars etc etc are what drew me to it and what make NMS a bit meh for me.
A combination of NMS and E:D that's closer to E:D, with the possibility of sufficient amounts of space trucking and wandering around planets gawking at the scenery is what I'd need ๐