Physical buttons for touchscreens

[charlesr]

Does this exist? I can't find anything useful. I have a touchscreen in my car for the doubleDin stereo. I miss having volume knob I can use without looking at it. There are touch buttons for up and down volume always in the same place. Is there something I can stick on them that will work?

[Neon Ignition]

Touchscreens just need replacing with physical buttons full stop. They're classic example of putting tech into a car for a sales pitch to the clear detriment of the passenger and vehicle design. I imagine in time there'll be a push back against them as they'll result in more accidents as they become more common. I can't imagine there's a good, safe way of putting a physical button over the screen controls without damaging the screen, you'd need something conductive you touch and that touches the screen without grating against the glass like metal would

[fishbowlhead]

Touchscreens should be banned in cars, their dangerous full stop, exactly the same as messing with your phone screen while driving.

[charlesr]

Agreed

[Hirst]

Don't mind me, just typing my reply on a BlackBerry Classic that I've held onto like a crotchety old geezer because touchscreens absolutely suck.

[fishbowlhead]

Though to answer your actual question, i don't think what your after exists.

[CMcK]

I did have a little joystick attachment for my iPad years ago but it didn’t work very well. It was supposed to replicate your fingers on the onscreen d-pad but took a fair amount of movement to actually register your input.

[charlesr]

Can I cut it up and use it?

[MartyG]

Does this exist? I can't find anything useful. I have a touchscreen in my car for the doubleDin stereo. I miss having volume knob I can use without looking at it. There are touch buttons for up and down volume always in the same place. Is there something I can stick on them that will work?

They must do as this is precisely what the Elgato Stream Deck is. Underneath it's a touch screen with buttons (the individual buttons don't have their own screens. I couldn't tell you where to buy them tho. Perhaps you could get a broken Stream Deck and take it apart - Or maybe it's just a normal screen with normal buttons - I hadn't considered that.

Adafruit did a teardown, it is a touch screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apO--Qpz58

[huxley]

[Brad]

The volume knob in my gt86 was too tiny to use. Remedied with a Lego tyre!

[charlesr]

Hah amazing

[Dogg Thang]

Touchscreens are such a terrible way to input anything that requires precision. I think about it every time I see them used in sci-fi spaceships.