![]() If anyone is interested I may post a more detailed description and how to for that project.īuilding your own switch will cost you nearly $100 depending on how you go about it. A bit of programing and I had 5 very functional and super cool switches ready to go. I just found a place to stash the brains and connected 2 wires to each switch. Not only did I not have to buy switches (which can be as much as $8-12 each) but everthing was all ready built. I personally hijacked my Guitar rig foot peddle and that turned out to be perfect. With computer aided fabrication blowing up these days its really not that expensive to get your own box built from scratch. Which is really the only point of building it yourself, you may want to look into getting the perfect box custom fabricated. if you really want to make a bad ass foot switch. You might want to highjack an existing electronics box or if you do some web searching I know there are blank electronics boxes out there for hobbiests. Now what do you put your switches and circuit board in? Well, on that one you are on your own. They are the big chunky silver switches found here. ![]() ![]() If you ask a electronics store for a Carling, heavy duty push button switch with a momentary action you will get the correct thing. You can adapt your foot switch t of the best ones are made by a company called Carling. for instance a single switch can be programmed to send an A keystroke, pause for 1 second, send a B stroke and then send a C stroke. The thing I like about the combination of their switches and hardware is that you can program complex macro commands. has built an excellent cross platform programing system that allows you to program the circuit board and the attatched switches to do almost anything. Its a very small circuit bord with a built in USB cable that will connect directly to any computer. ![]() The brains in your switch can be purchased from P.I. This is a fairly simple task (i use that term loosly) involving buying or building a box, some wires, the proper switches and a interface device. Here are some direct links and thoughts on some of the options you have for foot switches. The new remix article talks about techniques and possibilites using foot switches but I did not have the space to really go into detail. ![]()
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