The software is up and running!

(Images of the brushBlaster software up and running! Shown are the copy/paste and selection radial buttons in action)

current goals of the software portion of brushblaster:

1) Reduce cursor movement.
2) Reduce eye movement -- keep everything focused on the area that you are painting.
3) Further eliminate the need to dig through menus.
4) Extend the visual style of the hardware onto the screen.

What started as a relatively straightforward plan (on the software side) quickly spiraled out of control. Within the AutoHotkey software, you can do more than simply remap keys. The open source software allows you to draw GUI on the screen!

Others have already used AutoHotkey to create on-screen hotkey buttons, though none were quite what I need for the brushBlaster. This radial menu script Was by far the best example of the concept, though it was way more than I needed. With some guidance from it's creator Boris Mudrinić, I was off and running. Working from an obsolete version of the Radial menu that he created in 2008 I was able to craft what I needed. Along the way there was a lot of learning, though I can safely say this will not be the last time I find a use for Autohotkey.

Though it's not ready yet, I plan to release a free version of the software for anyone to use. It will work in any software, and can be totally re-skinned. It will require a text-editor to customize, though there are many free and open-source text editors.