More Rock Band repairs

[gfish]

I broke the Rock Band drum pedal again last night. This time it was the plastic hinge knuckles that failed.







For the record, a 3" hinge from Lowe's fits perfectly. Correct width, correct pin diameter, just perfect all around.

The consensus is, next time it breaks it will be replaced with a real drum pedal. The Rock Band electronics is a simple little Hall effect switch, would be easy enough to add to some real hardware. Though I still want to try skipping the pedal entirely, playing with some magnets taped to my foot.

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[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the kind of thing we were thinking of. Though that one does some kind of velocity measurement, so I wonder if the output is some kind of PWM instead of on/off connectivity.