Stream deck with 8 buttons, 4 dials+buttons and touch strip/LED display.
This is an ATL for the white, and a near ATL for the black.
For those people about to quote the $109 white elephant and the $216 previous deals, I have one word for you. Knobs (the stream deck plus has them). Both of those deals were pricing errors, were rapidly expired and limited numbers were honoured. But, if you do want to tell us about them yet again, go wild! In the meantime, this is about as good as it gets for anyone who wants one now.
I'm grabbing a second one because the first is built into my gaming rig (it has been excellent), and I want one for desktop use as well. Expensive for a button box, but also fire and forget from my personal experience and reviews and user posts about it on reddit.Cheap compared to a 15 button stream deck if you also want the rotaries. And the software has been getting substantially better over the last year as well.
I suppose you could also use it for streaming if that's your thing.
If you want to have the stream deck behave like a controller, see https://github.com/ashupp/Streamdeck-vJoy and https://github.com/bastianh/streamdeck-vjoy-w4rl0ck (so far I've been good with hotkey mappings).
I recently got the amazon deal for a portable monitor for $20 and its been awesome just behind my keyboard and i was thinking how a touch screen one would be sick for things like what stream decks do but then the benefit of a video screen etc too
So yea id recommend looking into a touch screen usb c monitor, much cheaper and does so much more