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| unclet:
Let me just say that I have done the Twisty Grip mouse hack a couple of times and it works great. Now I would like to hack a USB mouse to a Pole Position steering wheel which has it's own encoder wheel. Seemed simple enough when I got the Pole Position steering wheel assembly....... I would take a Belkin USB mouse apart and mount the PCB over the existing encoder wheel (see photo). Thing was I found out I needed to have the encoder wheel go between the X-axis optics instead of the Y-axis optics since I use Mame32 and I found that the encoder wheel was to wide to fit into the space to access the X-axis optics. What are my options? How should I mount the USB Belkin mouse PCB to my Pole Position assembly encoder wheel? When I got the Pole Position assembly, the Pole Position PCB which fits nicely around the encoder wheel was included. Is there some way to use the Pole Position PCB and attach that to my USB mouse optics somehow (ie: solder wires from the Pole Position PCB directly to the USB mouse PCB)? If so, please let me know how to wire it up since I have no clue. I was thinking my other option (which I am not to crazy about) was to remove the X-axis optics from the USB mouse PCB and mount them to a wafer board from Radio Shack and then run wires from the wafer board back to my USB mouse PCB. This will allow me to mount the wafer board optics over the encoder wheel easier. But hopefully there is an easier way. PS: I will attach pics of the front and back of the original ATARI Pole Position PCB along with pics of teh USB mouse PCB. |
| unclet:
Here is a pic of the Pole Position Atari PCB |
| unclet:
Here is a pic of the Pole Position Atari PCB (back pic) |
| unclet:
Here is a pic of the USB mouse PCB (front) |
| unclet:
Here is a pic of the USB mouse PCB (back) |
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