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Nice idea but ridiculously wimpy switch. Rig up one of these American made beauties instead. https://www.amazon.com/SSC-Controls-G500-MO-Electrical-Industrial

Nice idea but ridiculously wimpy switch. Rig up one of these American made beauties instead. https://www.amazon.com/SSC-Controls-G500-MO-Electrical-Industrial/dp/B017T2IXIW https://www.amazon.com/SSC-Controls-G500-MO-Electrical-Indus... from experience: they're way more satisfying to press and oil/water/dust tight. EDIT: fixed link. this pedal is also OSHA approved with a safety cap to prevent objects from falling onto the switch and triggering insert mode.

SteveNuts 6y ago
Appears to be a broken link fyi
wintermutestwin 6y ago
Link still doesn't work. I think this is what you were trying to link to: https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEMCo-Heavy-Duty-Cast-Aluminum-Foot-Switch-15A-SPDT-Electric-Pedal-Momentary-New/283228402443?epid=2254335706 https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEMCo-Heavy-Duty-Cast-Aluminum-Foot... I'm not sure how you'd connect this as an ancillary USB keyboard. Seems like you'd need an Ardunio or something? I'd love to have a few of these to control DAW apps where I don't need the hassle, cost and complexity of Midi
- NegativeLatency 6y ago
  Teency USB is pretty common for stuff like this
- chas 6y ago
  A handwired QMK keyboard would work fine: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/hand_wire https://docs.qmk.fm/#/hand_wire If you have only one or two switches, you can use the DIRECT_PINS configuration to directly put one switch per input pin rather than the more conventional switch matrix approach. You can use the XD002 code as a starting point (https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/xd002 https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/xd..., https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/xd002/config.h#L36 https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/xd...). It uses a DigiSpark rather than the more common Arduino Pro Micro. The DigiSpark is a bit fiddly and has very little program memory, but it is very cheap and simple.
vonwoodson 6y ago
Merica!
darwingr 6y ago
Skookum UX

SteveNuts 6y ago

Appears to be a broken link fyi

wintermutestwin 6y ago

Link still doesn't work. I think this is what you were trying to link to: https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEMCo-Heavy-Duty-Cast-Aluminum-Foot-Switch-15A-SPDT-Electric-Pedal-Momentary-New/283228402443?epid=2254335706 https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEMCo-Heavy-Duty-Cast-Aluminum-Foot... I'm not sure how you'd connect this as an ancillary USB keyboard. Seems like you'd need an Ardunio or something? I'd love to have a few of these to control DAW apps where I don't need the hassle, cost and complexity of Midi

NegativeLatency 6y ago
Teency USB is pretty common for stuff like this
chas 6y ago
A handwired QMK keyboard would work fine: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/hand_wire https://docs.qmk.fm/#/hand_wire If you have only one or two switches, you can use the DIRECT_PINS configuration to directly put one switch per input pin rather than the more conventional switch matrix approach. You can use the XD002 code as a starting point (https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/xd002 https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/xd..., https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/xd002/config.h#L36 https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/xd...). It uses a DigiSpark rather than the more common Arduino Pro Micro. The DigiSpark is a bit fiddly and has very little program memory, but it is very cheap and simple.

vonwoodson 6y ago

Merica!

darwingr 6y ago

Skookum UX