[sdiy] Looking for ribbon controllers

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:59:11PM -0500, xamboldt wrote:
> Or sandwich the FSR strip with the position-sensitive strip and have  
> a pressure-sensitive ribbon controller, giving you two parameters to  
> control with one touch. Use the position for pitch and the FSR for  
> velocity, or run the FSR through a comparator for a gate, etc...

So, I thought about that this morning too.  Then I had another idea because
I thought I had seen some parts surplus...
Has anyone played with resistive LCD overlays for making touchscreens?  Not
the capacitive ones but the resistive ones.

Basically you'd have a flat joystick that could tell when you were holding
its handle and could be started from any point.  You could use the X axis
for pitch bend and the Y axis for say Filter.   Make it so it can be "CS80"
style where your fingers first landing location was the centerpoint.
Drawback is you'll only have 10" max movement, and I cant find any of the
stupid things surplus right now at the usual suspects.

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