Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS

9 comments

• dmwood 1 hour ago
  Yippy! I feel like I'm 15 years younger
• maroonblazer 1 hour ago
  >Of course, modern controllers exist that offer many more literal bells and whistles...

  Anyone have a favorite 'modern controller' for those of us who no longer have a PowerMate?

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  • ThrowawayR2 16 minutes ago
    There was a poster on HN a while ago that recommended¹ the Drok USB volume knob because it can be reconfigured to send keystrokes or mouse actions. Just Google for "configure drok usb volume control knob" for instructions. I reconfigured mine to send mouse scroll events for scrolling through documents.

    ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31702940
  • lukeh 34 minutes ago
    Microsoft Surface Dial is nice. You'll also need to write a driver...
  • eksu 1 hour ago
    Surface Dial is a good hardware target.
  • parl_match 41 minutes ago
    some elgato stream deck models have knobs. 3Dconnexion also still around
• TheAtomic 1 hour ago
  I love this. PowerMate was the ultimate fidget tool when not scrolling, editing, etc.
• detourdog 3 hours ago
  I have one of these all I need to do is find it.
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  • donatj 2 hours ago
    Literally thinking the same thing. I have one somewhere... Haven't seen it in twenty years
• mcphage 33 minutes ago
  I have one of those, but never used it too much—if the button got pressed while my Mac was asleep, it immediately woke up and kernel panicked. I don’t know if there was something odd about my machine or my particular PowerMate or what?
• timnetworks 2 hours ago
  I have one of these and now all I need to do is find a reason to use the Mac.
• haunter 1 hour ago
  Damn I always wanted to one of these! So cool
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  • _-_-__-_-_- 32 minutes ago
    I check eBay from time to time, they are usually very expensive.
• fzzzy 2 hours ago
  Lol I wrote a new driver for the bluetooth one a few months ago.
• joshmarinacci 2 hours ago
  Curse you! Now I have to go clean out the attic to find mine.