Floorboard

Created in July 2000

Note: see the Pedal Box of Dursian for a more powerful implementation

This is a simple Floorboard which consists of 12 foot-buttons and a LED display. It enables you to "tip" Program Change messages with your foots in order to switch between synthesizer patches or Fx gear setups, or whatever else. The selected patch is displayed by the LEDs.

When you tip on button 1, 2, 3, ... 0, a Program Change is sent out immediately. When you tip the +10 or -10 button, the LEDs begin to flash - on this way they signalize the selection of a new decade. You can increment/decrement the decade from x, 1x, 2x, 3x ... to 12x. The LEDs stop to flash when you tip on button 1, 2, 3, ... 0 again. Thereafter the appr. Program Change is sent over the MIDI cable.

Have fun with this nice application - if you need more functionality, just enhance the source code. :)

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Schematic
File	Size	Description
floorboard.pdf	12k	Floorboard Circuit
WikiPage	LINK	Layout for Floorboard PCB made by MTE
Firmware
floorboard_v1001.hex.zip	1k	Floorboard Firmware for PIC16F87x-20
Source Code
floorboard_v1.1.zip	14k	Floorboard Source Code
Orderlist
floorboard_bestelliste.txt	1k	Reichelt Orderlist for German Users

Note: see the Pedal Box of Dursian for a more powerful implementation

Last update: 2023-11-04