World of Warcraft Treadmill – Race Across Azeroth with a RunCraft
extremely cheap manual treadmills 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. It only get to track a little over 4mph. If you were going to run at 12mph on the treadmill, a mouse wouldn’t be able to keep up. The use of 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 they could make sure to get the full range of speeds. So the faster you run on the treadmill, the faster and longer the “w” would be pressed.”