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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:04:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   You're never gonna believe this, but it turns out I'm gonna need to build a new keyboard

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:10:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's gonna have to be a good keyboard.
     ugh. I'm not good (no pun intended) at those

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:14:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I've got a custom 3-button footpedal I use for work stuff and I'm already having to overload some buttons and now it turns out they've modified the software it interfaces with so now it has 4 possible scan types instead of 2, which is way more than can realistically fit on 3 buttons, especially since I still need buttons for "next project" and "delete last scan".
     That's 6 possible commands on 3 pedals. Not realistic or usable even if I could do it

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:16:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I think maybe I'm gonna have to upgrade to my secondary idea: a wearable wireless custom macropad

   • Holger Krupp (_holger@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:33:42 JST Holger Krupp

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     @foone 6 commands on 3 pedals should be possible (assuming two legs are available to handle the inputs)
     x - -
     - x -
     - - x
     x x -
     x - x
     - x x

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:33:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Holger Krupp

     @_holger possible, yes. Can my little brain recall all the options? No.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 08:15:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     several people have suggested complicated ways to encode the 6 commands onto 3 pedals, but the main problem is that this is a keyboard designed to be used by a distracted idiot, ie me.

     so I can't make it super complicated or I won't be able to remember how to operate it

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 08:32:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

     @moira I thought about that too!
     the annoying thing is that 4 of the commands are clearly grouped together, so it'd be weird to have 3 on one foot and 1 on the other

   • Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 08:32:10 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     @foone I've got one of those! I like it! I was thinking of getting a second one for six pedals and that'd get you six - 3 left foot 3 right foot, is that less confusing?

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 20:55:59 JST vxo

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     @foone I have a bad habit of using a problem like this as an excuse to wire up a bunch of really cool looking arcade pushbuttons