The idea early on was to leverage existing Arduino libraries to connect with a standard USB mouse, specifically, the hardware would take the form of an Arduino Mega 2560 with a USB Host Shield.

Everything in this X-Plane 11 compatible simulator is controlled by an Arduino Mega 2560 with the SimVim firmware.

If you are searching for a new project to keep you busy for the next couple of weekends you might be interested in this hexapod robot project powered by an Arduino Mega 2560 development board ...