# RDP(r/KiCad)-Effortless control at your fingertips. No more memorizing shortcuts **URL:** \ **Category:** FAQ\ **Created:** [December 30, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://community.rimu.me/t/rdp-r-kicad-effortless-control-at-your-fingertips-no-more-memorizing-shortcuts/157 "2024-12-30T05:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Angie-Mei](https://community.rimu.me/user_avatar/community.rimu.me/angie-mei/32/572_2.png) [@Angie-Mei](https://community.rimu.me/u/Angie-Mei)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://community.rimu.me/t/rdp-r-kicad-effortless-control-at-your-fingertips-no-more-memorizing-shortcuts/157/1 "2024-12-30T05:18:32Z")
-[link](https://www.reddit.com/r/KiCad/comments/1hmiktt/effortless_control_at_your_fingertips_no_more/) ![image](https://community.rimu.me/uploads/default/original/1X/a3108e9ae69e0f6d808fd005cd437c69f0cd18fa.jpeg) ![image](https://community.rimu.me/uploads/default/original/1X/32ea08e0c94091f0d259e5b0081c70e3e76a5b4f.png) ![image](https://community.rimu.me/uploads/default/original/1X/c8a819659fda08f8b17b30b7eed4f3439d31619d.png) ![image](https://community.rimu.me/uploads/default/original/1X/2d629d1439f14b534713049eb0878710708bda75.png) > ❓ 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](https://rimu.me/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/host.jpg), 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](https://community.rimu.me/uploads/default/original/1X/14ef6c0394e9bb0429e878d3baea8d218de553fb.jpeg). 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](https://community.rimu.me/uploads/default/original/1X/6866fb9e30d9ae88359dd8a6550bf73ae6f13ecc.jpeg). 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/](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.