Thursday, October 15, 2009

USB Foot Switch

USB Foot Switch (Image courtesy Brando)
By Andrew Liszewski

For just $18 Brando will sell you a USB Foot Switch that comes with software allowing it to reproduce any keyboard shortcut when you tap your foot. Now off the top of my head I can’t really think of a keyboard shortcut I’d need to pass off to my foot, but since you can connect more than one switch to any given PC I assume there has to be the potential for something useful here. Internet? I pass the buck to you to figure out what it is.

[ USB Foot Switch ] VIA [ Pocket-lint ]


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  • chilepepper
    With enough of them, you could poorly and inefficiently replicate the foot keyboard of an organ.
  • They are generally used as a start/stop [play/pause] button for typists transcribing recorded audio material...
  • sarareid
    My husband has a knitting machine and a program called Designaknit. You should connect the machine to the PC with a very expensive serial cable which has a reed switch worked by a magnet to count the rows as the machine carriage moves back and forth. The program will also count a row every time spacebar (or up arrow)is pressed. I have tried to make a homemafe cable to do the same thing but I have not had much success, The problem seems to be that the program will not respond to Sendkeys in the way I think it should. Any ideas?

    cartouche
  • vitorpepicon
    Windows + D when my boss get close ;-)
  • chadrockey
    I used to look at sheet music in Adobe PDF on my monitor rotated into portrait mode. This would be PERFECT for the "Page Down" key to switch the page when I got to the end of page. (Actual digital sheet music displays are very expensive.)
  • StratMan9000
    Play/pause in Adobe Audition when you're trying to learn a lick from a song.
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