CHAPTER 13

Pedal Board Controller

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Although I have called this a pedal board for one version of the build, you will actually need pretty dainty toes to use it with your feet. I have, however, provided a second version of the design that is intended for use with separate switches that you might fix into a box and then run leads back to a screw shield on the Arduino.

The project is intended for use with music software such as Ableton Live as a simple controller. Therefore, you press one of the buttons, and that triggers some action within the music software—say, starting a drum track playing. In effect, you are making something that will emulate ...

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