Yeah there’s some superball mallets I made a few years ago. Don’t actually use them too much these days but they are in my ‘bag-o-tricks’. Took forever to make them too, or rather, took longer than one would think. The bodies are filed down hacksaw blades with epoxied twine as the handles:
All of us are programmers so it varies from day to day. I think most are using them as a combination of present/mode switching between “scenes”, as well as “NOW” type buttons (record/play/etc…)
I finished up a DIY really slick/compact USB footswitch which I’ll post pictures up once I finish up the Sugru-ing.