>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?

Rebelgecko 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't have one, but Ploopy's knob is intriguing (https://ploopy.co/knob/).

LilyGo/TTGo also has some interesting knobs with some unusual features features (force feedback or LCD touchscreen on top of the knob, depending on model) but again I don't have firsthand experience and these might take some DIY

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ThrowawayR2 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There 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

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lukeh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Microsoft Surface Dial is nice. You'll also need to write a driver...

	▲	jauntywundrkind 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As 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 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.

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eksu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Surface Dial is a good hardware target.

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parl_match an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

some elgato stream deck models have knobs. 3Dconnexion also still around