RDP(r/KiCad)-Effortless control at your fingertips. No more memorizing shortcuts

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Nice ad but the point of learning shortcuts is expressly so I don’t have to take my hands off the keyboard/mouse combo
Some shortcut keys are out of reach of the left hand.

They are completely delusional if they think a touchscreen is better than a hotkey. Just look at how long it takes them to tap the buttons and how careful they have to do it.
Some keyshort needs two hands, or needs right hand left the mouse to press it, like backspace.
Why not just get an external numpad block keyboard and customize the hotkeys however you like?
HID is only a function of rimu, it also has GPIO and control module. These are not available in any extended keyboard.
I don’t even understand what “has GPIO and control module” means for a EDA worker.
please have a look at this image, You can easy understand what rimu for.
Some sort of modular embedded controller?
The module normally contoled by the host (showed in the post).

the actions shown are already default keybinds
Yes, like the lock/unlock (L), it’s not easy to press the L key by left hand. Just send keybinds.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but in my personal opinion your product is trying to 10 things at a mediocre level, rather than one or two at a good level.
No one wants a touch screen macropad. I get that it gives you customisability, but elgato solved this ages ago with the stream deck.
A touchscreen CNC control is silly at best, and dangerous at worst. I would not trust the red stop button.
No one who is kicking back to watch YouTube wants to carry such a controller, it’s just not needed.
It all seems rather ‘half-baked’, and not very useful to me. The UI, which is probably the only selling point of the touchscreen, doesn’t even look pleasing (to me).
The email demo seems no more useful than an ahk script.
I suppose I’m just not the target market, but advertising this for productivity is not going to be very convincing I feel (and I suggest that you drop the CNC support, that’s a little risky imo).
Thanks for your suggestions, especially the CNC stop button. We also plan to use GPIO to connect a physical button. But it’s not ready yet.
Our product is just a slight improvement on the existing one, and we will upload some modules applications soon.
using GPIO to connect a physical button’ is just not good enough. It worries me that such a scheme was even suggested.
For desktop use, fun-and-games, sure. But for a CNC (or any industrial machine) the e-stop should be physically and electrically able to stop the machine. Running it through your code is not a good risk to take. Even with interrupts, RTOS, and whatever other fancy stuff you put in, an E stop just should not be software controlled whenever possible. This is an issue for marketing a product both to computer users and for industrial machinery.
Thank you for your feedback, I understand your concern, but some simple (cheap) industrial equipment and machines are not equipped with such complete safety protection. For example, our CNC engraving machine is only controlled by a keyboard. Rimu can only slightly solve some of these types of equipment, and may also help some people.

So… It’s a stream deck?
No, Rimu can attach many other modules. The shortcut is just one application.

Appreciate this has features other than HID, but in the context of KiCAD MATRIC https://matricapp.com/ or anything else similar would also work.
Thanks for the informaions. We will study it.

Sorry, but a hotkey on a keyboard does a better job than a touch screen.
The H.I.D Keyboard can only be considered a supplementary tool for keyboards and cannot replace all the functions of a full-sized keyboard. It is primarily designed to provide additional shortcut key options for users of compact keyboards.
Which would be better served by ditching the silly half-sized keyboard and using a full sized keyboard in the first place; it is both more functional and uses less space. But it is pictured with a full sized keyboard anyway.
Sorry I’m not trying to shit on your project here. Making things is cool, you’re having fun and learning stuff and being creative and that is great. If you have a use for it then awesome, I just don’t personally see the point.
Rimu is capable of much more than just this. One of its key functions is the H.I.D Keyboard function.