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Drilling holes in my desktop

Discussion in 'General Chit-Chat' started by Bubba06, Mar 7, 2019.

  1. Mar 7, 2019 #1
    Bubba06

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    I figured I'd drill some holes in my desktop, insert some arcade style buttons off of FleaBay, order a USB encoder off FleaBay, and have me some cool easy shortcut keys.

    10 buttons were $3.
    The encoder was $9.
    download "Joy to Key"

    Now to convert to outlines in Flexi, I just press the convert to outlines button, instead of ctrl, shift, O.
    I only have 2 buttons installed right now, but I ordered 10 that I am going to install.
    When i'm done I will label them.
    I don't know if it's gonna make life easier or not, but it makes sense to me.

    Just thought I'd share.
     
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  2. Mar 7, 2019 #2
    unclebun

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  3. Mar 7, 2019 #3
    rjssigns

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    Kudos to a slick desktop hack!
     
  4. Mar 7, 2019 #4
    Gino

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    Do they have other colors besides red ?? Red tends to get hot faster and might begin melting. Just a thought. I might look for toggle switches and put them up the sides of my monitors.
     
  5. Mar 7, 2019 #5
    WildWestDesigns

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    I don't know if I would label them just yet. Surely you could script them to be macros for other programs as well. Why just have them limited to just 1 program? Unless that's the only thing that is done at that desk? As an ole arcade brat, I'm digging the retro buttons.
     
  6. Mar 7, 2019 #6
    Bubba06

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    They have several colors to choose from. Red is my favorite color.
     
  7. Mar 7, 2019 #7
    Bubba06

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    Good Idea. "Joy to Key" was just the first thing I thought of to test it.
     
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