Comments on: USB Foot Switch

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:33:00 +0000

Every garage band on the planet has their song charts with lyrics and chords downloaded from the internet and saved as Word files, then printed out and put in three-ring binders. This USB footswitch is perfect for setting up a teleprompter arrangement with a laptop or a desktop PC and then having a VGA splitter feed to one or more LCD monitors. You can attach an LCD monitor to a mic stand or a cymbal stand by using a piece of 1/2-inch plywood (6 inches X 6-inches X 1/2) as a mounting plate, Attach 1/2″ pipe mounting rings that you get from HD or Lowes, Be sure to use 1/2-inch machine screws and t-nuts. The rings will go over the top part of a mic-stand or a tri-pod cymbal stand. Attach the 1/2 plywood piece to the back of the LCD monitor using 3/4″ or 7/8″ 4MM machine screws available in the specialty hardware section at Lowes. Copy the pattern of the four screws attaching the original monitor base to the back of the monitor. Change the Word document song charts to Landscape format, 24 point type and use the full screen view function under VIEW. Use the USB footswitch to copy the PAGE-DOWN function. Voila, you have a teleprompter for band song charts. No more three-ring binders. Let me know if you need help. I’ll do what I can. Bob email: bandteleprompter@gmail.com

By: matthew ronquillo

matthew ronquillo — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:45:00 +0000

this is perfect for mic chating while playing games. press – open mic, release – close mic

By: StratMan9000

StratMan9000 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:10:52 +0000

Play/pause in Adobe Audition when you're trying to learn a lick from a song.

By: chadrockey

chadrockey — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:04:25 +0000

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.)

By: StratMan9000

StratMan9000 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:10:52 +0000

Play/pause in Adobe Audition when you're trying to learn a lick from a song.

By: chadrockey

chadrockey — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:04:25 +0000

By: vitorpepicon

vitorpepicon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:03:55 +0000

Windows + D when my boss get close

By: sarareid

sarareid — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:59:39 +0000

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?

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By: Ross Bennetts

Ross Bennetts — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:42:28 +0000

They are generally used as a start/stop [play/pause] button for typists transcribing recorded audio material…

By: chilepepper

chilepepper — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:22:39 +0000

With enough of them, you could poorly and inefficiently replicate the foot keyboard of an organ.