@foone need? Or just kinda stumbled into an excuse to and "hey, guess it's unavoidable..."?
(And playing doom on a dryer while using timings as a keyboard? I'll read that thread)
@Fooker actually need for once!
I've got a job where I'm only able to be reasonably productive through the use of a footpedal keyboard, and now the job has changed such that I need more buttons
I've got a custom 3-button footpedal I use for work stuff and I'm already having to overload some buttons and now it turns out they've modified the software it interfaces with so now it has 4 possible scan types instead of 2, which is way more than can realistically fit on 3 buttons, especially since I still need buttons for "next project" and "delete last scan".
That's 6 possible commands on 3 pedals. Not realistic or usable even if I could do it
Back when I served in the military, one of the engineers on my team took all of the same mechanical principles of a mouse but scaled them upwards for a rolling cart with a couple of foot pedals for Left, Middle, Right buttons.
He called it the Rat.
He "stomped on the Rat" when he wanted to double-click on something.
I almost wish he went into commercial production with it.
several people have suggested complicated ways to encode the 6 commands onto 3 pedals, but the main problem is that this is a keyboard designed to be used by a distracted idiot, ie me.
so I can't make it super complicated or I won't be able to remember how to operate it
@foone You could even use sequences instead of only checking which pedals were "clicked" - so
x-x would be different from 1-2 and 2-1. Another sequence could be 12- and 21-
(This idea is brought to you by a rather old programming IDE for oberon which needed a 3-button mouse and used "interclicking": press LB first, hold, then RB, hold and then click MB) (or something like that. it's decades since I used it the last time)
@foone I've got one of those! I like it! I was thinking of getting a second one for six pedals and that'd get you six - 3 left foot 3 right foot, is that less confusing?
@moira I thought about that too!
the annoying thing is that 4 of the commands are clearly grouped together, so it'd be weird to have 3 on one foot and 1 on the other
@foone the splitkb elora has a three lead (trrs) plug on each half that's for foot switches, so if you're free to wire the foot switches to very simple "bridge these pins together" operation, that would give you what you need: a good (IMHO YMMV) split keyboard with 6 foot pedal support. it's not wireless though