9 Aug
2013
9 Aug
'13
5:35 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 08:48:45PM +0200, Julien Claassen julien-at-mail.upb.de wrote:
Someone told me, that they were intending to get a
pedalboard to
trigger keystrokes to control some commandline applications. And
I've been wondering.
Does anyone have experience with that? A specific device and what
about the configuration tools for such tasks? I've been searching
the web a little, but unfortunately keyboard, pedalboard and the
like are very ambiguous search terms, so the results were rather
unhelpful.
Any ideas would be welcome. Since I can't solder myself, I'd
prefer prebuilt solutions. I'm pretty sure, that this would be
possible with Arduino based solutions, but I'd rather not for a
start. :-)
This link was mentioned on this list once:
https://github.com/rgerganov/footswitch
It's not for a pedalboard, but rather for individual footswitches. The
page has a link to where you can get the footswitches, and there are
both single and triple footswitches there. Direct links to the ones
you might be most interested in are:
http://www.pcsensor.com/index.php?_a=product&product_id=5
http://www.pcsensor.com/index.php?_a=product&product_id=150
http://www.pcsensor.com/index.php?_a=product&product_id=149
These all plug into the USB port. You might want to check out the
others, too, but some of them are mechanical switches only, and
wouldn't suit your purpose. I have no experience with these or the
software, but I bookmarked them when they were mentioned here before,
just in case.
Chuck