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geekhack Community => Input Devices => Topic started by: salmo on Mon, 01 October 2012, 20:53:14
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I dug out my old Griffin Powermate, and it got me wondering if anyone else here had one, and was doing something creative with it.
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I have a keyboard from an NEC APC IV PowerMate 1 4C - but I suspect it is not the same thing.
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I don't know if this is what you are looking for..
I added a grip and acrylic base. The grip is Medi grip I got from a grocery store and the acrylic base is from group buy in KBDMania. The base comes with gel pad which is pretty sticky yet reusable. The base fits a bit tightly to the Powermate so it stays put.
(http://i.imgur.com/mtQma.jpg)
The trackpoint is just dummy. I put it there just to cover holes in the caps.
The pics were originally posted here: http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/5117359
If you think your Powermate is not smooth, you could try to lube it. See here to see where to lube. http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/4218160
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Mine's an oversized mute mic button, and answer call in skype button. Occasionally used as volume control, but rarely.
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I've considered integrating a Powermate into a Kinesis Advantage. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I've never gotten around to getting a Powermate, so I'm not totally familiar with it. If I can get a cheap used one, that will probably motivate me to experiment. Would like a black one to match keyboard.
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That could be cool. It definitely feels nicer than most knobs. It has a little weight to it. That was really the thing that sold me. Then I had trouble getting it working in Linux (before support was basically built-in), and then I just forgot about it in a bin.
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That could be cool. It definitely feels nicer than most knobs. It has a little weight to it. That was really the thing that sold me. Then I had trouble getting it working in Linux (before support was basically built-in), and then I just forgot about it in a bin.
same happened to me when vista came out, now its fully supported in 7 but i sold it long ago to someone on here.