Old Keyboard == New Footboard

[Bradster]

[align=center]Old Keyboard = New Foot Switch
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Meet my new healer!

I did this little mod because I was having trouble healing in heroics. I was thinking of getting foot pedals and one of my neighbors threw an old keyboard away so decided to try something different.



A few uses of SetBindingMacro and some 77 cent knobs from wal-mart and this is the finished product.



My total cost was less then 5 bucks, even if you have to purchase a cheap keyboard for the project it can be done for $15.

I have a traditional tank, healer, 3 dps setup with the first button set to cast a big heal on the tank and a chain heal if alt is held. The other 4 buttons are just chain heal for each of the other 4 characters. It's pretty simplistic but it's helped me with both the tanking and healing since my hand doesn't need to leave the main keyboard to heal at all.

[Shonkey]

Impressive. Thanks for sharing. Its given me a few more ideas.

[Pikey]

lol... awesome.

I take it this for a multi-pc set up.

Looks good. Very creative.

[Yagamoth]

awesome, i love that idea xD

[Surabe]

rofl..........

[völu]

Nice, really nice.
I will do the same. That can probably boost my Warri, Paladin 2on2 Team

[Ozbert]

I notice your left-most foot button is on the S key.

How do you distinguish between pressing the S on your footboard and the S on your normal keyboard, assuming you still have it bound to the default of move backwards?

[Signal7]

That's some thinking outside the box type of action right there. Very cool indeed.

[Thulos]

Very interesting. I'm not quite understanding how you set it all up. Is this keyboard hooked to a different computer, which happens to be your dedicated healer comp? Or is it hooked to your main computer. My best guess is that this keyboard is hooked to your healer and those keys are on your Do not pass list so they don't accidentally get sent from your main keyboard. Can you give just a little more details on this because it's giving me some ideas.

[Marious]

Hehe takes typing to a whole new level, you should be able to type faster now

"I got tired of typing with my hands alone so now I have a keyboard that I can type with my feet as well."

Actually the whole pedal thing is not a bad idea if your hardware based since you definitely can just assign healing to those particular buttons or a number of other things.