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Newbie needing help, please. How to make a basic USB input button
Juggernaut1:
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on June 14, 2005, 03:34:50 pm ---maybe hack a sewing machine switch?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41248&item=8198926774
you could hack one of the buttons on a USB mouse's board to it i guess
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Hi,
That is an interesting idea, but I do want it to be more like a traditional arcade button, just big enough to use comfortably with the foot if desired.
Anyway, the exact button is not so important, what is more important is that I learn how to connect it to a USB connector to do the function I want. Do you know how I can learn to do this? I need to know all the parts I would need and some basic instructions on how to assemble it.
Thanks!
Juggernaut
IntruderAlert:
if you only need one button the smallest/cheapest thing I can think of is a mouse circuit board hack
You'd just take the Mouse apart and solder two wires onto the two contacts for one of the Mouse buttons and connect the other end of the 2 wires to the switch
SirPoonga:
hack a cheap usb gamepad.
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on June 14, 2005, 03:34:50 pm ---maybe hack a sewing machine switch?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41248&item=8198926774
you could hack one of the buttons on a USB mouse's board to it i guess
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Sewing machines use pots, but not like you couldn't put a switch in it.
Also, you can find used sustain pedals for electric keyboards (musical). Those are foot pedals that plug into the back of a keyboard.
IntruderAlert:
or if he wants it more arcadey looking maybe one of those giant pushbuttons