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I want to hear more about what you expect the rotary encoder to be used for. You clearly put a lot of thought into making it happen, so - why? I feel like there

I want to hear more about what you expect the rotary encoder to be used for. You clearly put a lot of thought into making it happen, so - why? I feel like there must be some interesting use cases, but I'm drawing a blank.

deelowe 4y ago
I don't get it. My minimal keyboards are for travel/mobile set ups. The whole point is to be able to throw it into a bag. This knob makes that impossible.
xd 4y ago
Switching virtual screens jumps to mind for me.
- Bud 4y ago
  A knob is not a particularly natural or efficient way to do that, however.
neitherboosh 4y ago
I’m sure I’d use it as a physical volume knob
alecfreudenberg 4y ago
Volume, Zoom, Digital Audio Production knobs, Video/Photoshop timeline or level controls, Gaming, Productivity macro (context switching, app switching, Brightness Anything that benefits from fine tuned 'back and forth' adjustments that settle on a value in a range. It's often more satisfying to have 'one motion' control of these functions rather than repeated 'up down' clicks to achieve a desired range. With a rotary, you can choose the velocity of the adjustment which you cannot do with discrete 'up and down' clicks other than through a 'hold' algorithm or rapid clicking.
- cantSpellSober 4y ago
  Yep, imagine replacing a guitar's whammy bar with a rotary jog dial; not the same
  - alecfreudenberg 4y ago
    Oh damn. my take-way is that my keyboard needs a whammy bar now.
ThrowawayR2 4y ago
A rotary encoder can be mapped to the mouse wheel for scrolling documents, reducing the need to move the hand to the mouse to perform that. As an aside, if that sounds interesting, you can do this with some of the cheap USB volume knobs available from Amazon, etc. that have a configuration menu, e.g. https://hackaday.com/2022/01/20/setup-menu-uses-text-editor-hack/ https://hackaday.com/2022/01/20/setup-menu-uses-text-editor-...
- hypertele-Xii 4y ago
  I bought one exactly like that, used AutoHotKey to configure it for various productivity applications. By default it mimics my mouse wheel, for more comfortable scrolling.
soheil 4y ago
What about adjusting the volume? If you have ever been in a car you can instantly relate to a knob like that.
kazinator 4y ago
I hope that encoder's knob is easily removable because it's a large protrusion that will get in the way of slipping the keyboard into narrow spaces. Large coat pockets, outer pockets on backpacks, drawers, bookshelves, ... It looks like the kind of thing that might get damaged. Imagine it getting stuck when opening a drawer, which someone unwittingly tries to overcome with force.
wizpig64 4y ago
I would love to have such a knob be mapped to speed up or slow down/rewind any video or podcast I'm watching or editing on the fly. Unfortunately no software would ever support this, someone would have had to standardized it 20 years ago first.
Workaccount2 4y ago
If OP reads this Switch out that selector switch for a knob with an indent. Its just annoying and bad feeling to free spin a selector switch like that. For stuff like scrolling and volume adjust, you want to be able to do it effortlessly with one finger.
- testmasterflex 4y ago
  Example of mentioned knob?
  - Workaccount2 4y ago
    Seems they are called "scrubber knobs" if you google it.
hypertele-Xii 4y ago
Practical examples: Scrolling a soundwave in Audacity. Scrolling the sequencer in a DAW like FL Studio. Binding it to a MIDI control to play live music. Rotating a 3D model.

deelowe 4y ago

I don't get it. My minimal keyboards are for travel/mobile set ups. The whole point is to be able to throw it into a bag. This knob makes that impossible.

xd 4y ago

Switching virtual screens jumps to mind for me.

Bud 4y ago
A knob is not a particularly natural or efficient way to do that, however.

neitherboosh 4y ago

I’m sure I’d use it as a physical volume knob

alecfreudenberg 4y ago

Volume, Zoom, Digital Audio Production knobs, Video/Photoshop timeline or level controls, Gaming, Productivity macro (context switching, app switching, Brightness Anything that benefits from fine tuned 'back and forth' adjustments that settle on a value in a range. It's often more satisfying to have 'one motion' control of these functions rather than repeated 'up down' clicks to achieve a desired range. With a rotary, you can choose the velocity of the adjustment which you cannot do with discrete 'up and down' clicks other than through a 'hold' algorithm or rapid clicking.

cantSpellSober 4y ago
Yep, imagine replacing a guitar's whammy bar with a rotary jog dial; not the same
- alecfreudenberg 4y ago
  Oh damn. my take-way is that my keyboard needs a whammy bar now.

ThrowawayR2 4y ago

A rotary encoder can be mapped to the mouse wheel for scrolling documents, reducing the need to move the hand to the mouse to perform that. As an aside, if that sounds interesting, you can do this with some of the cheap USB volume knobs available from Amazon, etc. that have a configuration menu, e.g. https://hackaday.com/2022/01/20/setup-menu-uses-text-editor-hack/ https://hackaday.com/2022/01/20/setup-menu-uses-text-editor-...

hypertele-Xii 4y ago
I bought one exactly like that, used AutoHotKey to configure it for various productivity applications. By default it mimics my mouse wheel, for more comfortable scrolling.

soheil 4y ago

What about adjusting the volume? If you have ever been in a car you can instantly relate to a knob like that.

kazinator 4y ago

I hope that encoder's knob is easily removable because it's a large protrusion that will get in the way of slipping the keyboard into narrow spaces. Large coat pockets, outer pockets on backpacks, drawers, bookshelves, ... It looks like the kind of thing that might get damaged. Imagine it getting stuck when opening a drawer, which someone unwittingly tries to overcome with force.

wizpig64 4y ago

I would love to have such a knob be mapped to speed up or slow down/rewind any video or podcast I'm watching or editing on the fly. Unfortunately no software would ever support this, someone would have had to standardized it 20 years ago first.

Workaccount2 4y ago

If OP reads this Switch out that selector switch for a knob with an indent. Its just annoying and bad feeling to free spin a selector switch like that. For stuff like scrolling and volume adjust, you want to be able to do it effortlessly with one finger.

testmasterflex 4y ago
Example of mentioned knob?
- Workaccount2 4y ago
  Seems they are called "scrubber knobs" if you google it.

hypertele-Xii 4y ago

Practical examples: Scrolling a soundwave in Audacity. Scrolling the sequencer in a DAW like FL Studio. Binding it to a MIDI control to play live music. Rotating a 3D model.