Work in Progress: Handwired keyboard with a big dumb button
Work in Progress: Handwired keyboard with a big dumb button
Mom, can we have battleship?
We have battleship at home.
The battleship at home...
Okay, so technically this battleship is still in drydock, but I soldered 117 keys/buttons. I get to put the keycaps on early if I want!
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What's the big dumb button going to do?
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I don't know yet. I just know I wanted a big dumb button.
There's so many normal dumb buttons on this one that I'm running out of ideas. You got any?
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It plays a sound that says, and displays a popup which reads: "Please do not press this button again. Thank you."
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I've found that mapping a big dumb button to "Enter" works nicely for adding drama when invoking a big old batch script process.
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This is the kind of low hanging fruit I’m after. Why do two Enter keys when THREE Enter keys is 50% more?!?!!
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Just FYI, this is what I did. Maybe I'll change it later, but it fit the vibe for a big dumb button on a computer keyboard perfectly.
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I love it! Thanks for letting me know.
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Minimize all windows and open a spreadsheet
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Was legitimately thinking Win+L to lock Windows or Kubuntu.
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You could also have it type out, "$USER is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."
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It should launch the Hamster Dance page.
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Plays Crab Rave 🦀🦀🦀
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The Cheat is grounded! We had that light switch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw light switch raves!
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Triggers automated trap door or nerf gun by your desk.
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I do still have the 3D printed flywheel assembly I made last year...
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If you work from home, maybe something along the lines of: closing all work apps and opening steam (or youtube, or netflix, just what you're doing to decompress). I just imagine a glorious end-of-day button press meaning I'M DONE, TIME FOR SOME ME TIME!
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Exit to normal mode?
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Launch a random retro game to the title screen.
Or any game that doesn't have a client/launcher like steam. No clicks. Button, controller, start.
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A firmware macro with a 0.1% chance of sending a Slack message (or whatever you use at work) that says "screw it, I'm taking the rest of the day off."
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How about Delete, since I don't see it on the layout.
Or the Most Scroll Lock Ever.
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