At last year's Computex tech show, Wooting announced that it was developing a knob for its popular analogue gaming keyboard, the 80 HE. This year, that knob is almost ready to go.
It's called the Lekker Knob large. It replaces the block of four navigation keys above the arrow keys on the 80 HE. It's a good spot for a volume wheel, but speaking to Wooting's lead software engineer, Simon Whyte, there's much more it can offer than that.
In Wooting's software, the Wootility, there are four main ways to programme the knob. Relative, which fires an action based on which way you turn the dial; Absolute, which sets the dial to a fixed value at each point in the rotation; Zoned, which subdivides the knob into smaller slices, each with its own action when the centre button is pressed; and Analog, which will increase the input strength the further you turn.
It's designed in such a way that the software can tell which position it's in at any given time, ie, it's analogue, which offers a wider ra...
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