Multi axis foot pedals?

[harry bissell]

How about sense force ???  Use piezos mounted to some kind of "beam"
arrangement, the weight would bend the piezo and output a tiny DC
voltage... or sense air pressure in a bladder (can you say... comdom?)
with a cheap pressure transducer... Or mount the unit on a stiff spring
suspension and use slotted optical switch or photocells...

:^) Harry (i could think of more if this doesn't get juices flowing)
Bissell



Grant Richter wrote:

> One of my buddies who is a guitar player recently got
> a modular synthesizer to process his guitar with.
> He asked me to help him come up with a controller
> he can use on stage without taking his hands off the guitar.
>
> It seems to me that one of the pedal manufacturers
> used to make a multi-axis foot pedal.
> (like a joystick for your foot?)
>
> I can't remember if it was tilt and twist
> or back and forth and side to side?
>
> Any one ever seen anything like that?
> MIDI is not required just CV.
>
> I know Bob Moog is offering nice plastic
> single axis foot pedals for $40 to use
> with the MoogerFooger modules.
> I thought I would try to hack something
> up, using that as a base.
>
> Just fishing for wacky ideas, if anyone cares to share.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Grant