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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Coreda on Tue, 24 July 2018, 16:46:13
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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 (https://github.com/OpenStreamDeck/StreamDeckSharp) 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 (https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/stream-deck-mini)
(https://i.imgur.com/k9Ty2Py.png) (https://i.imgur.com/LH6kQCI.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/pORixpT.jpg)
Hacked example of the larger device playing a video using StreamDeck#:
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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.
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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.