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Offline greath

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USB Foot Pedal
« on: Wed, 20 May 2015, 08:34:44 »
Anyone have experience with these? Thinking of getting one for push to talk functions on vent while gaming.
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Offline Megaweapon

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 20 May 2015, 08:51:55 »
Yes.  I use it for the same thing and it works great.
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Offline davkol

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 20 May 2015, 14:43:18 »
Meh. Too long travel and the remapping software is awful.
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Offline quake4mhg

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 22 May 2015, 00:18:34 »
I use scythe triple foot switch Version 1 & Version 2, for years gaming.
TTK, record gameplay, prone, spam Q (spot button) in BF3/4. Worth every penny! Believe me, you gonna need more paddles, so go buy a triple one.
At office, I'm using stinky footboard. Mainly adobe suite.
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Offline CeeSA

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 09:43:46 »
DIY out off an old keyboard and some arcade buttons:
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Offline greekplaya990

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 30 July 2015, 18:16:55 »
great idea. I have one of those terrible (in my opnion as a FPS type of guy) left handed gaming pads by belkin and I bet i could fashion up something to map a button for a thing or two and make them easy to press. It's odd there isnt something on the market for this.
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Offline bjb39

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 25 October 2015, 19:55:07 »
I bought this



on Amazon about a week or so ago. I have it hooked up to a script that will run/kill my guitar amp software using Karabiner on OS X. It does the job well, but the switch feels linear and doesn't have any tactility to it. I thought this was kind of odd considering that you can definitely feel the switch on most guitar foot pedals.
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Offline kebby

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 30 October 2015, 15:37:50 »
Always wondered how well a racing wheel pedal would work as dual-purpose, both for what it's intended to do and input for something else such as modifiers in emacs. Anyone see why it wouldn't work or have experience trying to use them for more than just driving?
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Offline bjb39

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 30 October 2015, 16:20:06 »
Quote from: kebby on Fri, 30 October 2015, 15:37:50
Anyone see why it wouldn't work or have experience trying to use them for more than just driving?

Yes.
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Offline kebby

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 30 October 2015, 16:30:59 »
Quote from: bjb39 on Fri, 30 October 2015, 16:20:06
Quote from: kebby on Fri, 30 October 2015, 15:37:50
Anyone see why it wouldn't work or have experience trying to use them for more than just driving?

Yes.

Thanks... Want to also tell me why? (please no one word reply)
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Offline MeltingTeeth

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 30 October 2015, 17:17:02 »
I think Logitech pedals through Setpoint can send custom commands.
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Offline CeeSA

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 09 November 2015, 09:02:08 »
In FPS I used my DIY footbuttons for:
- crunch
- weapon select
- map
- weapon select
and other less used things...

I would say thats only recommended for digital switches and not for analog pedals.
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Offline djchup

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Re: USB Foot Pedal
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 10 November 2015, 15:17:07 »
Quote from: bjb39 on Sun, 25 October 2015, 19:55:07
I bought this

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on Amazon about a week or so ago. I have it hooked up to a script that will run/kill my guitar amp software using Karabiner on OS X. It does the job well, but the switch feels linear and doesn't have any tactility to it. I thought this was kind of odd considering that you can definitely feel the switch on most guitar foot pedals.

I also bought one of these to use for push-to-talk.  I can confirm that while entirely functional for this purpose, the travel distance is a bit too long for it to feel "right"; and yes the mapping software is awful.
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