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Growing extra fingers

Jul 18, 2017 Mi5 link

https://www.amazon.com/USB-Foot-Switch-Keyboard-Pedal/dp/B008MU0TBU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1500410692&sr=1-1&keywords=PC+USB+Foot+Switch+Keyboard+Pedal

I use three of these(Turbo, Brake, A+R/F), along with a cheap 10$ keyboard and a cheap 15$ wireless mouse, what are you using?
Jul 18, 2017 Mi5 link
45$ has lasted me nearly 5 years, I think I got pretty good value.
Jul 18, 2017 Luxen link
I wonder if there is a way to hook up my Yamaha keyboard as a control device? (Midi in and out -> USB cable for connectivity).

Right now, a Logitech Extreme3D Pro flight joystick. I dont use the buttons on its base, or the bottomside lever. very rarely do i use my tablet as footpedals, with this app.

and someday ill stop calling my joystick a thrustmaster~~~
Jul 18, 2017 Ore link
I use a Cry Baby wah-wah pedal for my latency simulator. Works a charm. You can find them used on EBay. What do you use Mi5?
Jul 18, 2017 Mi5 link
Your tears, I get them off the forums and 100 for free.
Jul 22, 2017 Inevitable link
Are you trolling for referral earnings on this forum lol.
Jul 22, 2017 Mi5 link
No, that's an unaffiliated link, I have no relation to it other than I bought 3 of the item.

Dropshipping from amazon/chinashops off a shopify using traffic generated off of FBA is way better money regardless, you can't make anything from referral links unless you're moving a large amount of inventory, which will never happen here.

Instead of shitposting with DirtyOre and JJ(deleted), how about posting something constructive.
Jul 23, 2017 genka link
Thought I'd post this before the inevitable thread lock due to Mi5:

Here is a thing I started doing a while back, thinking that tilting your phone would be a decent way to control your spaceship. If not for pews, then at least for lazy flying around.

It's a combo of a kernel module that exposes a proc file and a node.js server that writes to that proc file. The module just pretends to be a two-axis joystick, with inputs based on the latest input from the server. The server hosts a webpage that asks your web browser for the input from the accelerometer in your phone. It works in mobile chrome.

Turns out, controlling your spaceship with your phone running a web app is actually quite terrible. My hand got tired of holding the stupid phone up, and the screen kept going to sleep, which meant that I had to look away from the game to wake up my phone again.

Still, I think there's some potential in the underlying idea, and there's a bunch more browser-based inputs to play around with. My favorite idea has been using the WebAudio api to pull in joystick input based on tones you play on a musical instrument. Killing someone by playing the accordion at them is hilarious enough to be worth the dirty looks I'll get from my wife.

Of course, due to what I'm sure Mi5 would describe as my innate slav lazyness I haven't bothered yet. Maybe next year.
Jul 23, 2017 Niki link
... I don't even use a mousepad

Jul 23, 2017 Luxen link
Genka, im not perfectly sure, but i think monect has a thing to send tilt controls as axis input - the way you have been doing it sounds pretty involved...
Jul 24, 2017 VikingRanger link
Genka I would greatly enjoy seeing a video with sound of you killing another player with the sounds from an accordion.
Jul 26, 2017 .Scorpio. link
Jul 26, 2017 .Scorpio. link
why does it not work
http://imgur.com/hmZMxF6

[Because you linked to the page, not the image. -Whistler]

Jul 26, 2017 scared star link
too little coffee is in the picture that's why :P
Jul 26, 2017 Luxen link
Koffee, Scared Star! Its Koffee!