TEENSY diy easy build foot switches for gamers

[Abarbarian]

I was searching for a bootup helper for pc's with no usb boot option in the bios and found PlopKexec.

https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

Which really has nothing to do with this thread except that on the developers page he has this link,

https://www.plop.at/en/teensy.html

which lead me to this,

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/projects.html
https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/projects.html
where I finally came across these two neat projects which I thought might be of use to some of the hardened gamers here.

Tattoo Push to Talk Foot Switch

I am an avid gamer and run a Teamspeak VOIP server to chat with my friends while playing World of Warcraft. One of the short falls of using this application is that a push-to-talk switch is required to use it. There is an option to use voice activated mode but that will transmit when ever a loud sound is present in the room, which in my case happens every time my dog squeeks his ball.

You could use any sort of foot switch for the above. For instance I have in the shed a foot operated light switch and an old sewing machine foot switch which could be used. Or you could use reed switches with a homemade switch as this next project does.

https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/co..._project_usb_footpedals_for_pc_input/c3xgt3s/

https://imgur.com/a/TTRH9

Controller is a teensy 2.0 usb. I didn't want to fuss with switches and mechanical connections, so I used reed switches and magnets. It works perfectly! I currently have it set up to run with Battlefield 3, with the pedals set to sprint, crouch, and prone (shift, ctrl, and z). The teensy is extremely responsive with no perceivable input lag. Here's the code:

Some of the projects made with the Teensy are remarkable. I especially like the ones that created special mouse controls for disabled folk.

 

[Ian]

I've not used Teensy boards before, but I've used Arduino quite a lot recently, and some of the projects out there are amazing. Teensy seems to be quite a bit more powerful than the ESP8266 boards I've been using.

If you're on the lookout for other good project listings, check out these two sites:

https://hackaday.com
https://www.hackster.io

There are so many cool things to build!