After staying at a vacation rental with a Godzilla pinball machine last year, I’ve become mildly obsessed with pinball. Unfortunately, pinball machines are quite expensive and they take up a considerable amount of room. My dream is to own a pinball machine at some future point, but in the meantime I will need to be content with pinball games on the computer. There’s a few good options for pinball games: Visual Pinball is king of the hill for pinball simulators, Future Pinball is another popular simulator, and Pinball FX is on most game consoles. Pinball games have come a long way since my childhood, but they still lack a certain something and I think a huge chunk of what is missing is the controls. There’s something about depressing leaf switches on a pinball cabinet that can’t be replaced by a keyboard or console controller. The only logical conclusion was to make my own pinball controller, so that’s what I did.