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Invisible wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>
>> How hard would it be to get a couple of pressure sensors, and wire
>> them up to a MIDI plug so you could have your own?
>
> Harder than you'd think.
>
> A peddleboard needs to not break when an 80 Kg person stamps on it. This
> is non-trivial.
Not necessarily. If, as you stated, all you need to do is close a
circuit... well, you can do that quite easily.
> Where the hell do you buy pressure sensors?
Take apart any electronic scale, if you must. Other than that, I'm sure
Radioshack has them (though I don't know about the tolerances of their
models).
> You realise that MIDI is a serial communications protocol, right? It's
> not like you just connect each sensor to a different pin on the plug;
> you need some fairly elaborate electronics in there.
Good point; maybe just wire it up to a parallel port, then, and generate
the MIDI signal via software.
Or, put something together with that breadboard you've been playing with ;)
>> Then you could go to the pub and tell some random girl, "Hey, baby,
>> you ever dated a guy who wired his own base?" :)
>
> *facepalm*
What, girls like a guy who can get things done! :)
...Chambers
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