Altmill pendant under Linux

[fowler]

I know this is an older topic, but I just posted about my custom pendant keyboard that basically does what you’ve discussed here - custom key mappings to gSender’s built-in jog key combinations to control the machine:

gSender/AltMill 9-Key Pendant Keyboard

Hey all, I had some mechanical keyboard parts laying around from an older project and found that I was able to make a custom 9 key pendant for gSender, controlling my Altmill on Linux. [pendant] Basically this is an Arduino pro micro clone that is attached to 9 CherryMX Blue switches - the Arduino firmware just pretends to be a USB keyboard (using keyboard.h) and when the various buttons are pressed, they just output the defaultgSender keyboard commands for XYZ jogs and speed selectors . All …