What board should I use? Trying to make gas and brake hand controls for sim racing because of my Disability

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I have a few 2axis joystick but no board yet. Was also wondering what else I should use. Need a trigger type control that's pressure sensitive. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. I'm new to this king of stuff but seeing all the hardware available its very interesting.

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Welcome to the forum.

You can start with a Arduino Leonardo with the ATmega32U4 microcontroller.
The Arduino Micro is a smaller version of the Leonardo, and there is even a "Pro Micro" but that is a "compatible" and not a official Arduino board.

Do you have any programming experience ?
Arduino has a Keyboard library and a Mouse library. Others have made libraries for other things, such as joystick. In the Arduino IDE is a "Library Manager" and there are many libraries that do something with buttons and joysticks.
I have tried the Keyboard and Mouse libraries, but not the other libraries.

An analog joystick can easily be read by an Arduino board.

A Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR) is pressure sensitive. It is not accurate enough to measure a weight, but perhaps it can be used with a button.
Sparkfun FSR: https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/tags/fsr
There are more options similar to a FSR. From a pressure sensitive fabric to a long strip with position detection. The Sparkfun Flex / Force category is just a small part of that.

Sometimes I find fresh ideas at Hackaday, such as this velocity sensitive keyboard.

Could you edit your first post and change the Category to "Project Guidance" ? Perhaps a helpful moderator will do that for you.

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@jaked0097, your topic has been moved to a more suitable location on the forum. Installation and Troubleshooting is not for problems with (nor for advise on) your project :wink: See About the Installation & Troubleshooting category.

I think that @Koepel has covered what you can start with, so I will leave it at that.

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Thanks for the reply I am looking into that now.
I do not have any prior experience with programming but I'm good on pc related issues and I'm looking forward to learning more.

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Thanks for moving my post to the proper location. I am new to this forum and I appreciate the help.