Generic foot pedals?

[darsu]

Hello--

I need a set of foot pedals that can be set to send keystrokes. Do such devices exist? Where should I look?

[Johnsie]

ebay. I don't think they send keystrokes though.

[frrobert]

I would a google search for adaptive computer equipment

[alphaniner]

How dynamic or complicated do the keystrokes need to be? Have you considered buying an old keyboard or two and doing some hacking?

[fatality_uk]

You could buy a cheap steering wheel race set
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CB11r%2B5aL._SL500.jpg

And then assign a bash script to a keystroke. Most cheap pedals will work ok, just dont use them for racing, they dont work that well :)

[darsu]

How dynamic or complicated do the keystrokes need to be? Have you considered buying an old keyboard or two and doing some hacking?

For instance, assigning one pedal to F1 and the other to F2. I don't have any hardhack skills, alas.

I'm looking for something like the kind of pedalboards they sell for transcription systems, but without any proprietary protocol thing. I have no idea what's out there.

[23meg]

You could get a MIDI foot pedal, such as the Behringer FCB1010, and run software to trigger keystrokes with MIDI.