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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 mo

• 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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