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Nice idea but ridiculously wimpy switch. Rig up one of these American made beauties instead.

https://www.amazon.com/SSC-Controls-G500-MO-Electrical-Indus...

  from experience:  they're way more satisfying to press and oil/water/dust tight.

EDIT: fixed link. this pedal is also OSHA approved with a safety cap to prevent objects from falling onto the switch and triggering insert mode.

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Link still doesn't work. I think this is what you were trying to link to:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEMCo-Heavy-Duty-Cast-Aluminum-Foot...

I'm not sure how you'd connect this as an ancillary USB keyboard. Seems like you'd need an Ardunio or something?

I'd love to have a few of these to control DAW apps where I don't need the hassle, cost and complexity of Midi

Teency USB is pretty common for stuff like this

A handwired QMK keyboard would work fine: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/hand_wire

If you have only one or two switches, you can use the DIRECT_PINS configuration to directly put one switch per input pin rather than the more conventional switch matrix approach. You can use the XD002 code as a starting point (https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/xd..., https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/xd...). It uses a DigiSpark rather than the more common Arduino Pro Micro. The DigiSpark is a bit fiddly and has very little program memory, but it is very cheap and simple.

Skookum UX

Appears to be a broken link fyi

Merica!

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