On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> 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 :)
>
> 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.
Does Mr. Jarboe's laptop even _have_ a joystick port? My T40 doesn't.
OTOH, it has no serial port either.
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