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| mahuti:
Easiest? Optipac... unless you're a whiz at soldering, then ps2 hack. Optipac- easy, can handle 2 trackballs, 4 spinners, reasonably priced, but not cheap. ps2 hack= 1 trackball, cheap.. may already have a mouse lying around. |
| mahuti:
Oscar has other commitments with "Real Life" http://www.oscarcontrols.com/ has been offline for months now. |
| vader:
:( Thats unfortunate, I just searched and read some past posts that he how other things to take care of. Hope all returns to normal for him. Tim |
| Jabba:
I agree with mahuti, Optipac easiest, but most costly. Viable if you wanted to put more than 1 PS/2 device on the computer...Otherewise, Mouse hack is good. I thought Oscar had the mouse hack documented on his site somewhere. Searching here will definately bring it up... |
| SirPoonga:
It's not that hard to hack to a usb mouse. The 6 pins are +%V, Ground, X+, X-, Y+, Y-. Grab any mouse to hack. Look up the mouse controller chip on http://www.datasheetarchive.com/. Desolder the IR parts from the mouse. Take the 6 pins form the tball and solder them to the appropiate pins on the mouse chip. Plu gin mouse :) On the tball, the red wire should be the power. The black wire should be ground. For Then follow the other wires to determine axis pairs. Then it is trial and error on which one is + and minus. When plugged in if you move the tball up but cursor goes down the + ad - need to be swapped. You are probably not going to find that connector. Best get the 6 pin connector form radioshack and make your own plug. |
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