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build instructions

materials

  • pedal - Yamaha FC5 sustain pedal - Amazon - $14.95 (I first tried one of these from Digikey, but it has a LOUD click.)
  • Teensy 4.0 - the brains - Teensy - $23.80
  • power switch - these from Amazon perfectly fit the hole in the Yamaha pedal - $5.99
  • battery - Amazon - $13.99
  • micro-lipo charger - Adafruit - $6.99
  • light pipe / fiber optics - Amazon - $7.09
  • hookup wire
  • hot glue
  • USB C cable - for connecting paginator to reMarkable - Amazon - $16.99
  • USB C to micro USB adapter - to connect the cable to the Teensy micro USB port - Amazon - $6.88

steps

  1. Open the pedal by removing the screws on each side. De-solder the wire from the switch. Remove the wire and discard.
  2. Using a step drill bit, drill two large holes in the pedal to accommodate the USB ports for both the Teensy and the micro-lipo charger. Drill them very close to the bottom of the pedal. Mine are slightly too high, so the pedal top interferes a bit with the charging port.
  3. Solder everything together as pictured.5. Load the Arduino sketch onto the Teensy.
  4. Plug the USB C cable into a computer to test that you can actually send the "right arrow" and "left arrow" keys to the computer.
  5. Follow FunkyFab's instructions to get your reMarkable USB input working.
  6. Plug the USB C cable into the reMarkable to make sure that works. I had many struggles getting this working. I had to uninstall ddvk from my reMarkable. I also couldn't get it work on any software version higher than 2.13.
  7. Once it's all working, test fit into the pedal. Do a complete test with the top of the pedal screwed on. Make sure you can actually plug cables into the rear USB ports as needed. see my note on #2 above
  8. Once it's for sure good, mark holes for the light pipes. Drill those holes and cut your light pipes to fit. I used a utility knife, which didn't give me a very clean cut.
  9. Glue everything into place with hot glue.