[sdiy] suggestions for foot control

[Tom Arnold]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:31:12AM -0500, Spencer Johnson wrote:
> whats the best method people have found for foot control of a pot?
> linear travel pots, sliding pots, or maybe even a serious modification
> of a standard potentiometer? to specify, i'd like to be able to
> control it with the angle of my foot, much like the control of a
> "wah-wah" pedal audio effect.

There was a guy selling commercial equipment ( forklift etc ) accelerator
pedals on Ebay.  Big heavy aluminum things with a pot for position sensing
and he was selling'em cheap.

Wah and volume pedals use a straight gear with a round gear on the pot.  If 
you're using it for VC you could just buy a volume pedal.  I dont think they 
turn the pot full range of course so you'd need to use it where you could 
offset and scale the output.

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