I am preparing a larger project which will need a foot switch to operate. I made once a foot pedal which was kinda tanky. This time,i made a lighter version, very simple to make, still with a nice operating feel. I don't really remember where i saw this design, i think from ebay.
The basic construction
The foot switch has only one piece of thin acrylic glass:
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| I got an 11cm wide 4mm thick acrylic glass piece |
And i marked a 30cm long piece from it |
And cut it |
Then i used my acrylic glass folding heater to bend the piece...
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| I marked a perpendicular line at about 5mm from the center of the piece |
Heated this line... |
When the material became soft, i gave it an extreme bend |
Now it begins to look like a foot pedal... |
The electronics
At first i wanted to glue the switch on the plexiglass with hotmelt glue, but then i decided to make it more "fancy":
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| I cut a T-shaped perforated PCB |
I will use this RJ connector, so i marked the fixing holed on the PCB |
I drilled the holes for the RJ connector |
And then i soldered the connector and a small PCB-mount switch |
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This is how it looks | |
Then i had to fix the PCB on the acrylic glass:
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| I marked a slot on the plexiglass for the soldering work of the PCB, and the holes to fix it |
I cut the slot and drilled the holed for countersink screws |
Almot ready... |
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Then i used a small piece of self-sticking foam to act as spring | |
Ready, Quick and Easy!
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