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r/HotasDIY↗

Hotas Do It Yourself

This sub is dedicated to the engineering and home fabrication of your own HOTAS and/or joystick subsystems. You can demonstrate and discuss DIY HOTAS projects here. It also deals with the DIY techniques and skills required for such projects.

16k subscribers30 posts / mo in Sep 202627 authors / mosince 2016

r/HotasDIY has 16k members (+20% over the last 12 months). It gets about 30 posts a month from 27 people. Top topics: Flight Sticks & HOTAS, Joysticks & Controllers and Cockpit Views & Lights.

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Size and growth

How r/HotasDIY has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+20%in 12 months · +3.9% in 3 months
Oct 202616k
Growing16k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−32%vs Sep 2025 · −18% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202630
QuieterPeaked at 63 in May 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/HotasDIY

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Flight Sticks & HOTAS2.2%
  2. Joysticks & Controllers1.6%
  3. Cockpit Views & Lights1.5%
  4. Joysticks and Controls1.3%
  5. Flight Controls0.8%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Printables
  2. Cults
  3. MakerWorld
  4. Aliexpress
  5. Leo Bodnar Electronics

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research