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This is in the works. While it won't be three pedals to start, I realized the simplicity of wiring the Teensy to a digital piano foot pedal (like this: http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-Sustain-Pedal-Action-Keyboards...) to build a relatively cheap, durable foot pedal for computing. I'll be posting about that sub-project soon on my blog.
One thought, since the Teensy can detect button press and button release events, is to code a vim mode where holding the pedal puts you in insert mode and releasing the pedal hits ESC to leave insert mode. We'll see how that works out in practice.
For 3 pedals, you could go with a DIY guitar pedal solution of project boxes and 3 momentary stomp switches (http://www.mammothelectronics.com/ is a good supplier of these parts) but I am unsure about the ergonomics of using one of these pedals constantly. (Guitarists simply stomp them on and off from a standing position. They're generally not pressing and holding the switches for 8 hours from a chair. So it might just cause foot/ankle problems due to the height of the front of the enclosure. More experimentation is needed on my part in this area.) Such a pedal would be way cheaper than the commercial versions from Kinesis and other manufacturers, however, and should be far more configurable / useful on Linux & Mac.