Multi axis foot pedals?

[tomg]

Next March (if you can wait that long) Sony will release the Playstation2.
It looks killer BTW. The point being that the new controllers will have
quote "analog buttons" unquote on it. I don't know exactly what that 
means but maybe it's a source of pressure sensitive resistors.

-tg
 


> 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