For my windows desktop, I have a StreamDeck [0] plugged into it. It's a 15 key board, where each key is an LCD screen.
It's designed for streamers (twitch/youtube), but has a few features that make it more general purpose. It can change layouts based on the active application, the actions can be bound to keypresses, and it has an SDK [1]. It's pretty neat (although the hardware feels cheap, and the SDK is pretty awful to use).
I've been tempted recently to look into hardware like the Loupedeck CT [2] as a more "premium" alternative, (and I like the idea of using the the dials for strange axes - scrolling tabs in a web browser/samples in a sampling profiler) but their documentation is hidden, and it's almost 3x the price of the stream deck.
It's designed for streamers (twitch/youtube), but has a few features that make it more general purpose. It can change layouts based on the active application, the actions can be bound to keypresses, and it has an SDK [1]. It's pretty neat (although the hardware feels cheap, and the SDK is pretty awful to use).
I've been tempted recently to look into hardware like the Loupedeck CT [2] as a more "premium" alternative, (and I like the idea of using the the dials for strange axes - scrolling tabs in a web browser/samples in a sampling profiler) but their documentation is hidden, and it's almost 3x the price of the stream deck.
[0] https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/stream-deck
[1] https://developer.elgato.com/documentation/stream-deck/sdk/o...
[2] https://loupedeck.com/en/products/loupedeck-ct?skip=true