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crashwg:
I know there's someone out there that does this and sells them, but I'm hoping to save some mony and do it my self.

First off, the way it works is you de-solder the optics on the mouse and run wires from the trackball's optics to the place where the mouse's orignal optics were.  Am I correct on that?

Second, is there a particular brand of mouse that works best?

And lastly, will this work with the 2
SirPoonga:
There is two techniques.  1) what you said, run wires directly from the tball's optics to the mouse optics.
2) What I did, take out the mouse optics and runt he 6 wires formt he tball harness into the mouse.

Both are very simular procedures.
There are two types of mice, those with 3 pin IR receivers and those with 4 pin.  The 3 pin are easier the to, the three pins are ground, data+ and data-.
The 4 pin, one of the pins won't be used int he hack.


The ultimarc tball comes with it's own interface, I thought.  Or maybe not.
crashwg:
At $28, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have an interface.  Also, there are two versions listed, one has a "modification which allows use with the Mini-PAC board"

Hmmm, wonder what that could be?  I thought the Mini-PAC worked the same way as the opti-pac when it came to handling optical input devices.
Minwah:

--- Quote from: crashwg on February 24, 2004, 06:16:27 am ---At $28, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have an interface.  Also, there are two versions listed, one has a "modification which allows use with the Mini-PAC board"

Hmmm, wonder what that could be?  I thought the Mini-PAC worked the same way as the opti-pac when it came to handling optical input devices.

--- End quote ---

I expect it comes with the optics but no interface - I would do as SirP said and use the trackball's optics if possible.

Pure speculation but perhaps the 'modification' has something to do with buffered (Happ) and unbuffered (Wico) types of trackballs?  Maybe the Mini-Pac by default expects the Happ type (?)
crashwg:
Will the buffered/unbuffered types affect the mouse hack?
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