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Heck in addition to my keyboard I've been thinking of building a board with a bunch of buttons just for firing off random things.

API requests when testing and so forth ... for whatever reason a separate set of physical keys makes more sense in my head.

I saw it recommended here a while ago, haven't tried it myself.

Or the cheaper, cooler and probably more hackable Keybow 2040

Ouch, why on earth did that cost so much? That's an order of magnitude above what I'd expect.

I get the appeal, but I still have unused function keys. (I'm using.. off the top of my head, F1-5.)

Could you use a USB or wireless numberpad, or do you have particular ergonomics in mind leading you down the "built it" path?

You'll get 15-18 buttons you could remap to trigger whatever events you want.

On the ergonomics front, I have long wanted to try out foot pedals/buttons for Shift or a few triple key combo shortcuts I regularly use in my IDE.