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New Trackball Design for easier installation
Vigo:
This looks like the American equivalent for the google challenged:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002B3YCQM
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008968NGU
PL1:
Thanks for the links, guys. :cheers:
That M500 has a lot more components than I expected. :o
Scott
Howard_Casto:
That's Logitech for you... over engineer the product so you have to actually produce the thing at a lower quality to cut costs.
StefanBurger:
The Logitech has a seperate daughter board, just for scroll wheel and mouse buttons, not really necessary for the trackball.
the HP is much more simplistic, but still a lot of SMD components.
RandyT:
Another thing for folks to keep in mind is that these sensors are nothing without a properly coded MCU to drive them. There are many settings and data points upon which to act, some of which require some specialized software from the manufacturer to access. Finding a hackable mouse which works is one thing, but actually building any kind of product from scratch is quite a process.
In other words, one which works in this application probably does so due to the engineering choices made when the mouse was designed. One common comment about the M500 seems to be that FPS gamers don't like it due to accuracy and lag issues. There's probably more smoothing going on under the hood, which improves apparent performance on less than ideal surfaces. I.e. fudging the output is better than the user seeing every little hiccup. Understandable concerns for FPS players, but maybe not so much for old arcade games.