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MaxAsh:

Hey all - just finished building a test setup for a DIY spinner. Looking for some advice on where to mount it on my CP. I've seen so many different setups. Is there a preferred placement on spinners? I know several spinner games use buttons as well, so I figure I need to keep those within reach to make it comfortable. Below is a quick shot of the draft CP setup. Any suggestions on spinner location are welcome. Right now I'm thinking off to the far left, towards the outer edge of the CP, because I'm going to put a trackball in the nice big center area that's unoccupied right now.

Sidenote: I was amazed at how simple it was to build the spinner. I dismantled a few hard drives I had lying around and pulled out the spindles. I selected one that had a hole in the center that rotated when the larger "bottom" section was twisted. This allowed me to mount the spindle on top of the test board, and only drill a small hole big enough for the encoder wheel spindle to fit through. I counter-sunk a 1" hole about 1/2-way into the test board, allowing me to simply drop the spindle in and still have clearance to turn it without touching. Overall, extremely small CP footprint, which is awesome. To stabilize the encoder wheel, I simply cut the mouse in half and re-used the actual encoder wheel mounts on the mouse body. Why not right? They're already sized perfectly. This also allowed me to just leave the board right in the mouse body, no need for special brackets. On the test board I simply hot glued the mouse body to the board to stabilize it, but on the finished CP I'll make that more secure. Everything moves incredibly smooth, and probably took me under an hour to rig up and start testing. Here are a few pics. If anyone is interested, I can post more showing the counter sunk hole, etc.

PL1:


--- Quote from: MaxAsh on August 12, 2014, 01:47:56 pm ---Hey all - just finished building a test setup for a DIY spinner. Looking for some advice on where to mount it on my CP. I've seen so many different setups. Is there a preferred placement on spinners?

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Cardboard mockuup panel is the best way to determine what feels right for you.


Scott

MaxAsh:


--- Quote from: PL1 on August 12, 2014, 01:56:58 pm ---Cardboard mockuup panel is the best way to determine what feels right for you

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Okay, so just go with whatever feels good, no real generic location. Works for me. It's such a small footprint, I can place it almost anywhere.

Nephasth:


--- Quote from: MaxAsh on August 12, 2014, 01:47:56 pm ---Is there a preferred placement on spinners?
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Yes, yes there is. Typically it's where ever the hell you want it to be.

michelevit:

I'm interested. Can you show more pics of what you made?

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