Elgato Stream Decks (6/15 LCD buttons, hacking potential)

[Coreda]

Figured I'd post in Keyboards since they're boards of keys and are the only other consumer boards I can think of with LCD buttons outside of the Optimus. It's designed for video game streamers as a switching booth, with customizable LCD button images and functions (only within a limited selection though afaik).

Natively the drivers only support W10/macOS but I'm more interested the device's potential via hacking for other purposes as for $100 ($140 for the 15 button version) it could make for an interesting contextualized button array for various applications. See this open source project which opens up more possibilities and enables support all the way down to Windows XP.

In its native state also has a kind of folder-style navigation UI where pressing some buttons displays a child group of buttons, which I thought was interesting.

Microsite




Hacked example of the larger device playing a video using StreamDeck#:

[tp4tissue]

Hrrrrmmm.. I think it looks cool.. but will peeps really buy another Thingie just for hotkey ?

It's already been demonstrated that people don't really need to look at their keyboard for productivity oriented- hot-keying'

The old fotoshop/ autodesk pros all draw without looking down.

[ag36]

Doesn't look very practical to me due to cost/reliability/software quality, should using a tablet do better than this since the size is not adequate for one-to-one key to function either therefore no ergonomic advantage.