New game controller 

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 01/14/2017 at 21:13 • Filed to: None

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Some sort of widget used in the photo processing biz. Windows just sees it as a keyboard and outputs letters from all of the various buttons and dials. I think this will actually work quite well with Train Simulator 2017 if I can reprogram the commands to match the output from this thingy.

TheHondaBro > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/14/2017 at 21:18

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Promise me you will wear a conductor’s hat and vape.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > TheHondaBro 01/14/2017 at 21:29

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Umm, no. Sorry. Well, only if you send me the hat, then we’ll talk...

MonkeePuzzle > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/14/2017 at 21:40

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well this is just quirky and cool

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MonkeePuzzle 01/14/2017 at 21:50

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It might even be programmable. It shows up as a device from Pi Engineering (their slogan being ‘The No Slogan Company’). I’ve downloaded their Macroworks software, and it recognizes the device, but it doesn’t let me program it. The software works with another cool programmable macro keyboard thingy I got at the same time, just not this thingy. I’ll shoot them an email to see if they can tell me how to reconfigure it.

Thanks again to XJDano

1111111111111111111111 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/14/2017 at 22:50

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Looks awesome. Great start to making a sim.

benjrblant > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/15/2017 at 11:11

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AutoHotKey, maybe?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/15/2017 at 14:33

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That’s cool. I bet it wouldn’t take much to do what you describe. (Says the guy whose skills amount to ripping plywood on a table saw...)

MM54 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/15/2017 at 21:40

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When you hit the “No-Print” button, does it not print out your screen? Seems like a useful feature to have in general.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MM54 01/15/2017 at 21:54

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I’ll have to sit down and map out what each key and roller is programmed to do; I’m sure there are some freeware apps to show this. I know that one of the rollers outputs a ‘j’ when you move it up and ‘k’ when you move it down, and the others are quite similar. As long as programs can accept changes to default keystrokes these rollers should be quite useful. I can see them used in TS2017 for throttle and the various brake modes, and in FSX for throttle and flaps.

MM54 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/15/2017 at 22:05

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Notch 8!

*derails*

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MM54 01/16/2017 at 02:54

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Oh, I see you’ve played it...

MM54 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/16/2017 at 11:04

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Actually I’ve never been in the simulator but I did work in locomotive assembly for a little while doing electrical testing of the control cabs before final assembly (locomotives go together like giant legos).