Hi, for a few years I have been making up wireless footswitches for customers to use with an application. I've just been pulling apart power point presentation devices and using the circuit in them. These just trigger the page up and page down keys. The problem I have is the unit I have been using seems to be a bit rubbish now, somehow several died when I built the last footswitch and they have all started being coded the same. So I was looking for something new and was wondering if there is something around that is more designed for this or if there is something semi simple to use, eg arduino based. I have a fair bit of experience with arduino stuff but have never used wireless outside of wifi. Requirements are
- zero power usage when no buttons are being pressed (rules out bluetooth, wifi)
- wireless, not IR
- needs to work with an off the shelf usb dongle
- doesn't have to trigger key presses but something easy to pick up my application
- can run multiple footswitches at the one location
- small circuit, the footswitches have about 20x10x10mm of room in them
Thanks
- zero power usage when no buttons are being pressed (rules out bluetooth, wifi)
- wireless, not IR
- needs to work with an off the shelf usb dongle
- doesn't have to trigger key presses but something easy to pick up my application
- can run multiple footswitches at the one location
- small circuit, the footswitches have about 20x10x10mm of room in them
Thanks