A Foot Pedal To Supplement Your Keyboard

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• LuigiDidNothingWrong87@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Finally I can use emacs the way it was intended.

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• miseducator@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My friend was a medical transcriptionist, which basically listens to doctor recordings and transcribes them. This doodad here was pretty much required to rewind parts for a relisten.

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• kmartburrito@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, those foot pedals are incredibly cheap in their construction. All plastic with a metal spring. Typically the plastic rod holding the upper piece to the lower piece is what breaks first. I’ve gone through many over the years using them as my push to talk button for various programs like teamspeak, mumble, and discord.

  It’s handy (or footy - ha! Dad joke) though to give yourself another key you can map to something other than your hands.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For their mod, it sounds like all they need is a momentary switch. You can go to any electronic parts provider and get switches.

    Probably not the best for a foot, but one thing that is durable — arcade buttons.

    Could get yourself a chunk of plywood board, drill holes in it — sounds like you need a 1 1/8" spade bit — and stick a Happ button in. Those consoles are pretty durable.

    There are a bunch of momentary foot switches I see on Amazon:

    www.amazon.com/s?k=pedal+momentary

    These ones look metal:

    www.amazon.com/…/B08H1NQCGJ

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  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Back when I did stuff for the sake of doing it, I mapped DAW transport buttons to these. I never bothered replacing them when they broke because I moved to a jog wheel to scrub through much more efficiently.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Could you convert foot pedals for music modulation to a HID device? 🤔 Those things are pretty sturdy (but also more expensive and usually only have audio jacks or midi connections).

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But do they give wah?

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• Kanzar@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bought a StinkyBoard thinking I would be so productive… I was not. Perhaps I’m not being imaginative enough with its use. 😅

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  • captainjaneway@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It always takes way longer to think about what to type than to type it out. So any benefits from speedier typing don’t speed up the ultimate road block: our brains.

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• Paradox@lemdro.id ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been using one for years. It gets some use. Not a ton, but some. Most common use is as media keys or as the modifiers. Oh and escape in vim

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