Re: [SLUG] hardware question - wah-wah/volume pedal to plug into serial port?

From: Austin Theen (austin@austintheen.com)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2005 - 13:38:52 EST


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:43 -0500, Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> That was an excellent idea with the game port. I could just pick up a
> cheap joystick and experiment with that as is, really. No
> construction and no hardware/electronics learning necessary. But yes,
> long-term goal is to hook it up to a laptop, and I'd love to be able
> to use a pedal. In a perfect world this would be USB, but I can also
> hook up to a parallel port.

I have a USB force feedback steering wheel and pedals, that do show up
under linux. Though I don't have any games that support it. You could
poke around in /proc or /sys and probably sense what the gas / brake
pedals send and key off that.. These steering wheels are available at
most any best buy or game store.

Austin

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