Stealth Switch 2

[Pestilence]

.http://www.stealthswitch2.com/

Lovely little programable foot petal buttons. Anyone try these out?
It's $100 for 5 pedals, though you can plug your guitar pedals in there if you have any. Pedal from rock band might work too. I figure they could come in pritty handy for gameing, though for that price, you COULD get a decent keyboard; hard to push the right buttons with your toes.

[Slayer]

Very cool idea but at that price learning to make your own would be more cost effective. Take an old usb keyboard, gut it and make a simple button to press a key for your foot. Or adapt an old xbox controller.

If you didnt want to go through all that then just spend the hundred on a racing wheel and pedals.

[Pestilence]

Well, The buttons are programmable. With macro support, Internaly stored, with software support so you can create app spacific profiles. Also it has independent "shift" fuctionality; That you can set one to "shift" (not just keyboard shift) and that the shift can be toggle or not, and program "shifted" functions, thereby haveing each of the 4 slave pedals hold 2 functions, and the shift itself can be set to a function if pressed alone, giveing you 9 button presses with the 5 pedals.

Master pedal and software: $40
Slave switches (up to 4): $15 each

So the master switch comes with enough programability to make it worth it, and the slave switches, at $15, are cheap enough to challenge makeing your own with convienence. There is also 4 versions of pedals.

It DID seems alittle steep spoken as $100 for 5 pedals, but broken down into $40 for the master switch (software and hardware done correctly) and $15 for a foot pedal that doesnt suck (I ASSUME they don't suck) I don't think I can beat that price without better knowlidge of such devices. I could PROBABLY use a guitar hero pedal but it would SUCK as a button, and real guitar pedals generaly cost at LEAST $15.

[Slayer]

When you think of it that way its really not so bad. I have a rock band pedal that would probably work.

The idea of having an extra programmable button to be foot activated is something i probably wouldn't pay extra for unless I had an absolute need for it. For the most part I don't even use the extra macro keys on the Logitech G15 keyboard(18 potential buttons not including the standard keyboard buttons) and G5 Mouse (9 potential buttons including mouse wheel).

Vent and other voice apps would be a great use for it but that would only need one button. Fraps could also work using 2 or 3 buttons. Maybe play/pause/skip/stop for a media player but thats already on most keyboards. The minimize and show the desktop functionality for hiding your game from your boss but any good IT department has that covered already.

Really there isnt much to be done in the gaming side of this device that cant be easier done on a keyboard and mouse. It think it would really shine when your using it in conjunction with a gamepad on the PC. That way you could be playing your roms and still be able to control the media player or other apps so that you dont tie up buttons on the controller. But again the keyboard is in reach for most of those activities.