Ok, got one of these and it’s neat. I seem to have forgotten my phone + wallet at home, so I cannot provide you, dear reader, with photographic proof, you will have to rest assured that my hand and fingers coincidentally look surprisingly similar to the manufacturer-provided promotional photograph, but also I don’t feel like working. So:
the calculator display looks very nice with it’s deeply tinted overlay plastic
there is a CAL button that switches to standalone calculator mode, and a calculator-icon button that defaults to launching the calculator app on Windows, does nothing by default on Mac. (Also of note, their remapping software only runs on Windows; I’m assuming you could remap to something useful for a Mac on a Windows machine?)
Other default mappings:
C = Escape
÷ = /
× = *
← = Delete
When you plug it in it displays the state of charge, and the incoming wattage, numerically on the calculator display, for a few seconds.
When switched into either BT / 2.4 wireless modes from “OFF” (wired) position, battery state of charge is displayed numerically on the display for a moment
Otherwise it remains blank during numpad mode.
While messing around with the calculator, I notice it has a little beeper speaker that beeps when you hit the character limit
I unexpectedly learned from poster ZefSideReprezent that you can hold numbers 1-4 and then press the CAL button to trigger some simple text-based games on the display. How fun, how charming.
I have yet to play these simple, text-based games on the display, or assess their quality, as they engage the little beeper speaker and currently I am literally one of two people in this whole floor here with the other person coincidentally being immediately next to me 1.5ft away right there
Kathy seems good-natured but she is constantly and loudly on the phone with Jason’s Deli or similar, to modify and update the dietary restrictions on various specific lunch platters or adjust the pre-agreed upon number of coffee carafes includ…
It does not seem possible to connect both the 8BitDo Retro 18 Mechanical Numpad and the 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard to a single included 2.4ghz adapter at the same time
I have a Haute42 S13 coming in the mail today. It’s a well-reviewed miniature leverless with an extra button you can map to Up for a more familiar WASD layout.
so I’ve gotten the S13, mostly because of the WASD layout and size, which means it can comfortably fit in my bag and can travel with my Deck
aside from the fact that I’m not a big fan of linears in general (which, it’s hotswappable so the only things stopping me are being cheap and lazy), it’s perfect for what I wanted and despite its size, it’s pretty comfortable to use
will just crosslink this question. trying to figure out a better way to get a good sim racing setup without buying entry level stuff that will become e-waste once i either drop the hobby and/or upgrade immediately to better stuff. just been lurking facebook marketplace looking for sub-$150 g29’s and such…
found a thrustmaster t150 for $100, fingers crossed it’s still available, but the pedals look really bad. hence the kooky idea of $100 used wheel + (upgrade to) $240 chinese heusinkveld clone pedals. i figured entry level wheel / great pedals was better than great wheel/mid pedals, or even just mid everything.
my three year update on this is that i don’t use my gladiator nxt very much nowadays because the combat flight sim community is full of jingoist imperialist scum (dcs) or literal nazi sympathizers (sturmovik) and there’s no single player campaigns worth playing so you end up engaging with above fascists more than you strictly want to. it’s not exactly motorsport where there’s like an officially benign version of flying that is also competitive, after all… and i’ve never been one for general aviation, they seem mostly like Air Traffic Control simulators to me. and air racing isn’t nearly as much of a thing as motorsport, because i guess plane crashes are a bigger deal than car crashes.
but anyway, much praise to VKB for really embodying modularity - they’ve gone out of their way to make all their new gear modularly-compatible with old gear, so even someone with the old NXT like me can access things like the Modern Combat Grip Ultimate
which was originally designed for the Gunfighter base but they made an adapter to stick it into the Gladiator base. and then you can get their new Twin-Engine throttle, which was long awaited - and they have since renamed to Single/Twin Engine Control System (STECS) - which comes in 4 different varieties compatible with their existing joysticks
and modularity means you can hang a boatload of button boxes and various doohickeys to these guys, even the ones developed for the Gladiator platform, and then use a ‘universal’ mount system to attach all this stuff to your desk.
anyway, i’m not buying any of this stuff because (see aforementioned issues with combat flight sims) but it’s good to know it exists if i ever decide i have too much money. the crazy part is the entry level is WAY cheaper than sim racing hardware, somehow. i guess you don’t need hydraulics or direct-drive motors or anything particularly crazy for airplanes, at least, until you want to start feeling the G-forces.
it was pretty frustrating not having a dedicated throttle control, so i might spring for one if i ever get back into this - even though my interest remains basically just ww2 aircraft.
reposting from fading brakelight thread: Someone is selling a Fanatec CSL Elite v1 load cell pedal set for $100 within an hour’s drive of me, does that seem worth it?I don’t have a rig but I do have 80 lbs of dumbbells behind my current pedal set lol. (T150 plastic junktastics)
I’m curious to try it because it’s small (actually maybe not that small from that last photo) and has back buttons, but I don’t trust this company’s quality yet so I was wondering if anyone tried it.
