Today I'm going to show you how I turned a cheap USB numeric keypad into a pad that I use for my digital painting shortcuts under GNU/Linux.
→ Tutorial: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article989/how-to-customise-a-usb-numeric-keypad-under-gnulinux
@davidrevoy I love the paintjob! I wanna do something similar, good to know that the nail polish holds up. Did you use any special technique for painting the plastic or just the brush and palette seen here?
@tibi Thanks! I only watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0gTkPAkFIs (or quickly browsed into it), I used also toothpick to make dots, and I found that a little drop or two of dissolvent (acetone) help to fluidify a bit if the liquid become to thick. Also, my mistake: trying to put yellow on top of black; I had to do three layer because my yellow is not really very covering well. If I knew, I would have started with a first pass of white, then yellow on the top. Two layers, less wobbly.
@davidrevoy all very useful info, thank you! as an aside i like how the nail polish here can create tactile bumps on the keys
@tibi Oh yes, big dots are indeed very useful for that. I used them on my previous stylus that was really flat https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2023/2023-06-27_lenovo-370-on-linux_stylus-customisation_net.jpg
@davidrevoy oh thats clever! i might just try this too. ive basically given up on pen buttons since theyre so bad for this reason