I just wanted to share my tablet and “pendant” setup
I wanted a jog pendant, and naively dusted off a xbox series controller and tried it with my windows tablet. After two nights of troubleshooting and trying key mappers (AntiMicrox) and device hiding software (HidHide) I finally gave up and decided to just use a keyboard. I ordered a bluetooth partial keyboard w/ numpad/arrows, and as I was setting it up I stumbled on the 8BitDo Micro…which had a keyboard mode! Looks like it’s the last device in 8BitDo lineup to ship with the old firmware that allows keyboard mapping. I was 50/50 if the keyboard mapping app would still work, but $25 was worth the risk.
Lo and behold, it worked! I now have a bluetooth jog controller.
I designed a grip cover for its ridiculously small size, and so far so good! Currently, printing it in another color to look less chistmas-y, but thought I would share.
Very interested to hear more.
First off, is this one the right model?
Can you also diagram the button mapping you used?
And do you have to launch AntiMicro (or other key mapping software) every time?
Thanks.
Thats the right controller! It has 3 modes, one of which is “keyboard” mode.
No need to actively run key mapping software, Carbide Motion supports keyboard shortcuts. I pulled the shortcuts from this post
You should only need to sync key mappings once to the controller.
All others - Null (to avoid unexpected key presses)
From then on you just connect the controller over bluetooth to the Mac/Windows machine running Carbide Motion. It will look like it’s a bluetooth keyboard to the Mac/Windows machine, and Carbide Motion happily accepts the buttons on the controller as keyboard inputs.
I would bet that this isn’t a long-lived solution. Seems like it’s the last of the controllers by that company to support key mapping.
Uploaded a gif of the controller in action on my printables model page. Can’t seem to upload videos or gifs here, and can’t link directly to printables for some reason
