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August 26, 2008

World of Warcraft Treadmill - Race Across Azeroth with a RunCraft

at 5:16 am. Filed under Complex Hacks, Electronic Hacks, Funny Hacks, Game Hacks

 

Are you a WOW fan and want to get more immersed into the game? Stop running around using a joystick hop on a RunCraft and Race Across Azeroth!

"We bought extremely cheap manual treadmills off of Amazon and decided to sense their speed with a mouse rather than trying to hook into the treadmill’s output with some sort of analog interface. I wrote a quick script in GlovePIE to calculate the maximum speed my mouse could track. It’s a nice MX Revolution, but I could only get it to track a little over 4mph. If we were going to run at 12mph on the treadmill, a mouse wouldn’t be able to keep up. We decided to use a bicycle tire pushed against the treadmill to reduce the speed the mouse would have to track. Eli used a 26" tire and tried to get the sensor about 1.8 inches from the axle so we could make sure to get the full range of speeds. I wrote another script in GlovePIE to convert the mouse speed to "w" pulses. So the faster we ran on the treadmill, the faster and longer the "w" would be pressed."

Thanks Aaron.


 


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4 Responses to “World of Warcraft Treadmill - Race Across Azeroth with a RunCraft”

  1. Elepski Says:

    HA HA HA.. That is the best invention ever!

    In fact WOW should make it a requirement…

  2. DIY WoW Treadmill Hack! | zedomax.com - Obsessively profiling DIYs, HOW-TO,Hacks, Gadgets, Tech, Web2.0,and beyond. Says:

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  3. Mahmoud Kabalan Says:

    SWEEEEET !!!! :D

  4. mooncaster Says:

    Forget Wii Fit, now there’s WoW Fit!

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