I put together a small protoboard to handle the switches, trimmer for the joystick, and the analog conversion of the keypad. It's nothing special, but it's one of the breakout boards I'll have.

I'm to the point where I need to make some final circuit boards to test and get things working beyond breadboards. Although I want things to be really modular, the initial plan is to have the following.

• Main board
  • keyboard analog conversion
  • 3 switches
  • 3 buttons + resistors
  • deadzone trimmer
  • joystick
• 2 controller boards each having
  • serial communication chip
  • 2 optocouplers

The controller boards have been done for a while, but I haven't had them printed yet. I'll make the main board and then I can actually start assembling things and actually make progress on the case.