Ten Points Random » hid https://blog.asdfa.net Too many monitors, dragons, interesting human interfaces and pointless distractions for one guy. Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:43:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 thunderzipper https://blog.asdfa.net/thunderzipper/ https://blog.asdfa.net/thunderzipper/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:37:45 +0000 http://blog.asdfa.net/?p=253 I’ve been working on a protocol for communicating with many generic devices easily.  Much there is that I can say about it, but it’s still fairly early prototype. I already incorporated some work from linmctool. With it, some glue, and carefully setup systems, I have been able to write a simple thunderzipper client that functions as a basic DMX light board – controlled exclusively with a PS3 controller.

It’s still quite an early prototype – and all the settings are hardcoded – but it’s still functional and a optimistic proof-of-concept of what I can do with  this protocol.

I need to get work on my main “glue” application that routes everything thunderzipper.

In other news, I just pushed a commit that makes basic WiiMote buttons available and functional. (And without the need for a scan utility or setup.)

]]> https://blog.asdfa.net/thunderzipper/feed/ 0 Photoshopping Faster: Using Your Feet https://blog.asdfa.net/photoshopping-faster-using-your-feet/ https://blog.asdfa.net/photoshopping-faster-using-your-feet/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:47:08 +0000 http://blog.asdfa.net/?p=93 You know what they say: Use your head.

I got a better idea: Use your feet.

I originally built my foot interface for MIDI/gaming applications but I found another great application: image editing.

I was going about filling around some lines with colors in The GIMP, and as I was working I thought, Hey, I keep switching back and forth between the paint tool and the eraser tool pretty often. When I had to switch I either needed to skim through the giant tool pallet to find my new tool, or laboriously, lift my head and chin from my left hand so I could press the appropriate keyboard shortcut.  It got old, but then I thought: Hey, I’ll just use my feet.

So I fired up my AutoHotkey editing skillz and bound a couple of buttons on my foot controller to the paint and erase tools (or rather the keyboard shortcuts for them).  Viola!  Instant speedup.

Now I can waste away my life painting away at pointless things much more quickly!

Also, I bound another couple buttons to undo/redo to help speed up fixing my mistakes.  Now I just need to figure out how to make the tools pressure sensitive using the foot pedals . . .

Edit: I also set Page Up/Page Down to buttons.  Imagine how convenient it is for me to just lean back and read something long, hands free!

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