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What would you do with Ben's WASD gaming pedals? Let us know and win!

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  • Individuals will be selected to receive the above mentioned build from the Ben Heck Show on  the basis of the quality of the submission of idea or application as determined by a panel of element14 Community Team members.
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  • i would use them to play games some and to look at and try to figur out other things that i could make with them and use them for

  • I would use this to play different kinds of games, but mostly Smite. The pedals would help a lot with the stress of finding the correct button in time.

  • Having seen how it was made, I would it as a jumping off point to make something else. Hell, you could even remap the buttons to do open and close curly and regular brackets when you're writing code. That's a time saving use right there. Such a simple tool has such infinite applications. Makes me wish I had a builder bot and a laser cutter. Anything you can think of, build it as quickly as you can think of it. Could even hook the pedals up to my slit lamp at work and use it to trigger taking pictures of the eye when I'm doing examinations.

  • in reply to azeunkn0wn

    Razer made a mouse with 12 buttons for the thumb to press, and You guys made buttons for the feet to stomp/step with..
    i'm an FPS and MOBA gamer, and if i had the tools, i would make some of these! to get a better performance ingame in DotA 2. image

     

    i always dreamed to be one of you guys.

     

    oh, and this can also be use as switching Tabs in windows, or/and chrome.
    changing Pages, pageup/down when browsing sites like 9gag ^_^

    i have lots of stuff to do with this in my mind, but i need to sleep..

     

    again, Great work! push this pedal further, name it with cool gaming name like "Peds" or "PedBoard" or "Cat"(for the mouse) heheh

  • i'm thinking to add something like smooth scrolling, if you're planning to make this more than a WASD foot pedal.
    by rotating a foot a few degrees to the left or right, it will scroll to left or right. and the speed depends on the angle of a foot rotate.. turning both foot away from each other to zoom in, the opposite to zoom out.

     

    and if you're done with the buttons only pedal, u might wanna make it more like a wah-wah pedal (guitar pedal for volume and effect level stuff).


    anyway, Great Job! this will help me play better in Dota 2, cause my both hands are busy at skill buttons and mouse clicks, instead of pressing arrow keys to Pan (which is hard without a third hand), my foot will do the Job.. image image

  • I can think of hundreds of uses from switching while working on my 3d graphics designs to using as rudder pedals in flight sims.

  • I would use it to be more efficient while browsing the web. Also to control video playback in XBMC. Also I'd use it to get better at Minecraft.

  • i would use it for Minecraft. i recently started doing a lets play on youtube and have realized that when playing more often there are certain keys that begin to hurt to hit as well it would lesson the usage on my keyboard and it would definitely lessen the load on my fingers. mainly id be using it for the jump and sneak keys  and possibly sprint if i could work out the proper config and which key i would need to assign to witch rocker on each peddle. also it is a pretty cool build in general and would love to have one of my own and there are plenty of other games and programs it would be useful for.

  • I would use it to control my lego mindstorms robot that I am going to get

  • I Would Remod it and and add buttons to each side of the peddle for 4 inputs per foot. I would then use it to easily go through websites, use it so I can use one foot for WASD, or maybe music control. The possibilities are endless.