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lustreking:

I have a couple newbie questions so forgive me if they

Lilwolf:

you can buy a prehacked one for 12 bucks from Oscar (and I highly recommend them... I have 3)... But use that number as a base.

look on ebay.  You can't find them much anywhere else.  But I bought 3 for 3 bucks each... then gave up and bought a prehacked one. 



RayB:

Umm, my (limited) understanding is you need to hack a BALL mouse, not an optical mouse. And you don't throw out the optical sensor (or do you??)




cholin:

No, you dont.  Ive seen a few reports and you can use the mouse PCB directly if you set it up right.  Some trackballs with the 6-pronged connections, you can solder the wires directly to the board.

Tahnok:


--- Quote from: cholin on March 11, 2005, 07:28:37 pm ---No, you dont.  Ive seen a few reports and you can use the mouse PCB directly if you set it up right.  Some trackballs with the 6-pronged connections, you can solder the wires directly to the board.

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Yes, you can. I am using an Ultimarc trackball wired into an analog PS/2 port mouse hack. It is wired directly to the PCB without any problems.

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