Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> I'm a software guy. Unfortunately, I don't have a great head for
> hardware / electronics yet. I wanted to rig some kind of
> wah-wah/volume pedal type device to a computer input (non-audio), like
> a serial or USB port for example. Something that I could vary the
> intensity of a signal and read the change or value programatically.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with anything like this? Apart from
> the Serial-HOWTO which I am in the process of reading, does anyone
> have any suggestions or recommended reading? I don't have any pedal
> or anything picked out yet... cheap is good :)
>
> Thanks,
> ~ Daniel
I think that you could hook a simple potentiometer (connected to a
spring-loaded pedal) to two of the lines in the game port (joystick
port, usually also located on the soundcard). Then you just read one
of the axis values from the "joystick". There is probably a
joystick-HOWTO somewhere.
--ronan
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