Odd old MS mouse...anyone used one for a spinner

[MrArcade]

I have 2 of these mice...and it looks like the inards are similar to an Omega Race controller.  The normal light chopper in between an emitter and detector does not appear...unless encased...

Pics:
http://home.woh.rr.com/ultimatearcade/temp/mouse.jpg
http://home.woh.rr.com/ultimatearcade/temp/mouse2.jpg

It would seem pretty easy to adapt to a spinner...just make a hard-drive based spinner and use some rubber tubing to connect the spinner shaft to the shaft of the mouse axis.


Has anyone used a mouse like this?

[tom61]

Someone has, but I forget the URL for it.  They made great spinners from I remember.

[twist]

Heh, actually I have that exact one and am trying to make a spinner of it. That's pretty funny that you mentioned it!!

[twist]

I wish I had another one of em...

I just dont have a hard drive, so I can't make a great one, but i have some pictures of what I'm tryin to do on my site...lemme c...

Aha!! Here it is: http://d.bz/spinner3.jpg

[twist]

Heh, it seems my surfing was good--here is the link to that spinner:
http://lillypad.4mg.com/lillypad/spinner.html

[1UP]

Instead of light choppers, it seems to have something like pots, but without limiting the spin.  I remember the old Atari 2600 driving paddles had something like this, pot that can spin and spin with no angle limitation...   Hey, there's another idea!  

[KeithD]

If you like I can shoot a digi-pic of the way I have mine setup. Kind of a quickie hack job but it works.

Sorry, don't have a web page up on it yet.
chevelloremovethis@rcn.com
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