ARand0mPlayer

I have bought an arduino nano v3.0! I have already played a little bit with it and I will soon build the panel and hook everything up. Thanks for pointing me at this great device.

Hello all, Around 2 months ago, I started playing DCS. I saw some videos and forum threads about home cockpits and input panels. Although I don't have the room nor the money to build a complete home cockpit, I would like to build a small input panel. I am planning to make a wooden box with on the top 6 toggle switches. Five of them will have to be able to be in two states (left engine on/off, right engine on/off, landing gear, main electrical system, airbrakes) and one of them will have to be able to be in three states (flaps). I would like to use toggle switches for all of them. But my question is about the controller. Because I want to keep the costs as low as possible and I can program in python, I don't want a specialised controller of 30 dollars or even more. I would like to use the 5 dollar raspberry pi zero, but I don't know much about it. Can any people give me some advice whether I will be able to use it and how difficult it will be to use it. Or are there any easier to use microcontrollers for around the same price that I should use? Thanks, ARand0mPlayer