I have a pedal from Guitar Hero World Tour, and I want to use it for push-to-talk in PC games. I don't want to have to connect the entire drum set, just the pedal. The pedal has a 3.5mm jack attached to it. Is there some way to use this on a computer and use a program like GlovePie to turn the pedal into a button?
Is there some way to use the Guitar Hero drum pedal on the PC
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I've messed around with the drum pedals for Rock Band and Guitar Hero before. They're just simple momentary switches with a really complex case. The 3.5mm jack is just an interface, the switch just shorts the two pins together.
What you'd need to do is convert that switch to something the PC can recognize as an input. It might be possible to connect the 3.5mm connector to Line In and then run some software to convert the on/off signal to an input, but a quick Google search doesn't turn up anything useful there.
Ideally, though, you'd have the pedal show up as a USB Human Interface Device (HID). I'm not aware of any currently available adapters that can do this directly, but someone with electronics expertise could probably make it work with a microcontroller that has USB HID support. It would also be possible to salvage the logic out of an old HID device (controller, mouse, keyboard) and wire the pedal into one of the already-present switches.
If you don't have the requisite electronics expertise, I'd suggest just getting a commercially available USB HID foot pedal and ditching the one for the drum kit. (Or, y'know, save the drums for later when RB/GH release new games...)