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Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS
- detourdog 5mo agoI have one of these all I need to do is find it.
- donatj 5mo agoLiterally thinking the same thing. I have one somewhere... Haven't seen it in twenty years
- joshmarinacci 5mo agoCurse you! Now I have to go clean out the attic to find mine.
- timnetworks 5mo agoI have one of these and now all I need to do is find a reason to use the Mac.
- fzzzy 5mo agoLol I wrote a new driver for the bluetooth one a few months ago.
- haunter 5mo agoDamn I always wanted to one of these! So cool
- _-_-__-_-_- 5mo agoI check eBay from time to time, they are usually very expensive.
- haunter 5mo agoSame...
- dmwood 5mo agoYippy! I feel like I'm 15 years younger
- maroonblazer 5mo ago>Of course, modern controllers exist that offer many more literal bells and whistles... Anyone have a favorite 'modern controller' for those of us who no longer have a PowerMate?
- eksu 5mo agoSurface Dial is a good hardware target.
- parl_match 5mo agosome elgato stream deck models have knobs. 3Dconnexion also still around
- Hamuko 5mo agoElgato and Corsair have also made a keyboard that has the Stream Deck buttons + knobs on it. https://www.elgato.com/us/en/explorer/products/stream-deck/galleon-100-sd-built-in-stream-deck/ https://www.elgato.com/us/en/explorer/products/stream-deck/g...
- lukeh 5mo agoMicrosoft Surface Dial is nice. You'll also need to write a driver...
- jauntywundrkind 5mo agoAs usual there is very very very good Linux support for a device (this device, the MS Surface Dial), better than anywhere else. https://github.com/daniel5151/surface-dial-linux https://github.com/daniel5151/surface-dial-linux Some are calling it the most obvious trend of all computing. And that was before the agentic age super put its finger on the cosmic scales of justice+hacking.
- ThrowawayR2 5mo agoThere was a poster on HN a while ago that recommended¹ the Drok USB volume knob because it can be reconfigured to send keystrokes or mouse actions. Just Google for "configure drok usb volume control knob" for instructions. I reconfigured mine to send mouse scroll events for scrolling through documents. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31702940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31702940
- TheAtomic 5mo agoI love this. PowerMate was the ultimate fidget tool when not scrolling, editing, etc.
- mcphage 5mo agoI have one of those, but never used it too much—if the button got pressed while my Mac was asleep, it immediately woke up and kernel panicked. I don’t know if there was something odd about my machine or my particular PowerMate or what?
- zdw 5mo agoWould be great if it could do other things, like be a volume knob, or do media play/pause, given that scrolling and mouse button press seem like things you already have a mouse to do?
- lloeki 5mo agoThis begs to be able to send MIDI events!
- rcarmo 5mo agoThis is awesome. I know I have one someplace that I stopped using because of lack of drivers, now all I need is to find it :)
- aa-jv 5mo agoI have two of these, near-permanently affixed to my Zynthian .. but now I think I want another one for the desktop. Anyone know of similar devices available currently?
- Cockbrand 5mo agoI was wondering whether BetterTouchTool would support the PowerMate, and I sure didn't get disappointed: https://community.folivora.ai/t/griffin-powermate/30169 https://community.folivora.ai/t/griffin-powermate/30169 Disclosure: I have no idea whether this would still work, and I have no way to find out.
- adt 5mo agoUsed one for the GPT-3 Leta Series back in 2021 (all 60+ episodes!). Still got mine! https://youtu.be/X6_E69K5WUs?t=327 https://youtu.be/X6_E69K5WUs?t=327
- mannyv 5mo agoThe powermate driver still works. My powermate is hooked up to my mac studio. I'll try this one; the real one doesn't init on restart, so I have to open it to get the throbbing.