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Offline salmo

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Anyone doing anything cool with a PowerMate
« on: Mon, 01 October 2012, 20:53:14 »
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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Re: Anyone doing anything cool with a PowerMate
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 01 October 2012, 21:07:13 »
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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Re: Anyone doing anything cool with a PowerMate
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 01 October 2012, 22:18:12 »
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.



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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Re: Anyone doing anything cool with a PowerMate
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 02 October 2012, 00:39:50 »
Mine's an oversized mute mic button, and answer call in skype button. Occasionally used as volume control, but rarely.
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Re: Anyone doing anything cool with a PowerMate
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 16 October 2012, 11:56:11 »
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.
« Last Edit: Tue, 16 October 2012, 11:59:13 by input nirvana »
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Re: Anyone doing anything cool with a PowerMate
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 16 October 2012, 22:27:39 »
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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Re: Re: Anyone doing anything cool with a PowerMate
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 16 October 2012, 23:51:03 »
Quote from: salmo on Tue, 16 October 2012, 22:27:39
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.
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