 | Waaaaay back in the day, I applied for the Razer developer program and they mailed me this Switchblade dev kit. I messed with it for a while but never made anything super cool with it. It has sat in a draw for well over a decade I think. Recently I have been tinkering with it. I accidentally bricked it at one point and got to experiment with EEPROM programming and chip flashing to un-brick it and work on some custom firmware for it since it's definitely not supported (it seems none of the Deathstalker series are supported by Razer officially anymore). This thing lets you swap jobs, including gathering jobs, includes mining/botany nodes by expansion and zone (tells you nearest aetheryte etc), fishing holes and catch criteria etc, shortcuts to emotes, glamor plates, recipes for crafter jobs including tying in to the raphael-rs solver and will load the macros it generates into your clipboard for you so you can paste them into macros in game, mounts and minions, etc. Still a couple of buttons left for ideas but I'm out of new ones for now. None of this uses any plugins or other hacks, everything it does is straight in the chat/text box in game. The only thing it does is looks for the DirectX process to determine if the game is focused or not. I'm planning to open source the driver work I've done on this at the very least. I want to get a Deathstalker keyboard to mess with so I can make sure it works with those, and then I will probably release the source for the app itself as well. The app uses Razer's official SDK for Switchblade so it's safe to use, my bricking was from me trying to flash the firmware on this thing to get some additional functionality that was not originally possible. submitted by /u/Wintaru [link] [comments] |
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