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I actually bought one a while back for the emacs metakeys issue which had 4 buttons (it was originally designed for turning pages on a pad while playing music).

I actually bought one a while back for the emacs metakeys issue which had 4 buttons (it was originally designed for turning pages on a pad while playing music). It worked pretty well while it lasted, but broke after like a year. Having a qmk split keyboard (the iris specifically https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard) was a more lasting solution that also solved some other ergonomic issues. Now my thumbs do more than just thonk the space bar. Control, shift, space, meta, backspace/delete, enter alt and esc are now done by thumbs instead of pinkies.

photochemsyn 4y ago
I think resourcing foot pedals from the music world (guitars and bass mostly) would be the way to go, they're designed for heavy use and would likely be much more durable.
- trynewideas 4y ago
  A lot of these USB pedals are about as sturdy as piano sustain pedals. More literally though, the Logidy UMI3[1] is a MIDI-over-USB foot controller that uses guitar pedal-like switches. It's designed to serve as a hardware interface to software loop control, but you can use a MIDI yoke or translator[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] to turn MIDI input into keystrokes, game input, etc. 1: https://www.logidy.com/umi3 https://www.logidy.com/umi3 2: Using just `aseqdump` to capture input, `xdotool` to simulate keystrokes, and a 7-line shell script to glue them together: https://superuser.com/questions/1170136/translating-midi-input-into-computer-keystrokes-on-linux https://superuser.com/questions/1170136/translating-midi-inp... 3: https://www.bome.com/products/mtclassic https://www.bome.com/products/mtclassic 4: http://www.varal.org/ttymidi/ http://www.varal.org/ttymidi/ 5: https://midikey2key.de/ https://midikey2key.de/ 6: https://hautetechnique.com/midi/midishortcut/ https://hautetechnique.com/midi/midishortcut/ 7: https://github.com/xobs/midi-to-keypress https://github.com/xobs/midi-to-keypress (Rust, Linux/macOS/Windows, open source) 8: https://charlie-roberts.com/midiStroke/ https://charlie-roberts.com/midiStroke/, https://github.com/charlieroberts/midiStroke/ https://github.com/charlieroberts/midiStroke/ (macOS, open source)
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photochemsyn 4y ago

I think resourcing foot pedals from the music world (guitars and bass mostly) would be the way to go, they're designed for heavy use and would likely be much more durable.

trynewideas 4y ago
A lot of these USB pedals are about as sturdy as piano sustain pedals. More literally though, the Logidy UMI3[1] is a MIDI-over-USB foot controller that uses guitar pedal-like switches. It's designed to serve as a hardware interface to software loop control, but you can use a MIDI yoke or translator[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] to turn MIDI input into keystrokes, game input, etc. 1: https://www.logidy.com/umi3 https://www.logidy.com/umi3 2: Using just `aseqdump` to capture input, `xdotool` to simulate keystrokes, and a 7-line shell script to glue them together: https://superuser.com/questions/1170136/translating-midi-input-into-computer-keystrokes-on-linux https://superuser.com/questions/1170136/translating-midi-inp... 3: https://www.bome.com/products/mtclassic https://www.bome.com/products/mtclassic 4: http://www.varal.org/ttymidi/ http://www.varal.org/ttymidi/ 5: https://midikey2key.de/ https://midikey2key.de/ 6: https://hautetechnique.com/midi/midishortcut/ https://hautetechnique.com/midi/midishortcut/ 7: https://github.com/xobs/midi-to-keypress https://github.com/xobs/midi-to-keypress (Rust, Linux/macOS/Windows, open source) 8: https://charlie-roberts.com/midiStroke/ https://charlie-roberts.com/midiStroke/, https://github.com/charlieroberts/midiStroke/ https://github.com/charlieroberts/midiStroke/ (macOS, open source)
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