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Have just built the perfect spinner...easy and cheap..very solid feel

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MinerAl:

ok, so the next step is...

Seems like the hard part of making a push/pull spinner is the optics have to travel up and down with the wheel, but the wheel on this is like 2 inches long and not attached to the optics at all, so it seems to me that just springing that pipe with simple switches on the top and bottom is a shoe-in for easy push/pull action.

one of the many half thought through ideas I've been meaning to get around to for years.

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--- Quote from: MinerAl on May 02, 2006, 08:47:54 pm ---ok, so the next step is...

Seems like the hard part of making a push/pull spinner is the optics have to travel up and down with the wheel, but the wheel on this is like 2 inches long and not attached to the optics at all, so it seems to me that just springing that pipe with simple switches on the top and bottom is a shoe-in for easy push/pull action.

one of the many half thought through ideas I've been meaning to get around to for years.

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I was thinking the same exact thing.  No parts to have to mesh together so this would be a perfect candidate for a push/pull!

On a side note, I was working on a hybrid of the hard drive hack spinner and rollerball's original optical design.  That is, using the hard drive motor as the spinner and supergluing washers to the bottom for flywheel weight but also as a surface to shine the optical mouse on.  Now I think I'm going to have to un-superglue (have to find some of that solvent stuff) the washers and fit a piece of pipe on the back side of the motor.



rollerball:

Good to see Ive started some guys thinking and playing around with ideas.....push pull idea could work....with some work and a few springs ect....just keep the ideas comming....always seems the simple way is the best way..

BadBrad:

How bout a mouse pad cut and glued to pipe if optics were a problem.

rollerball:

Yeah dont see why not....but I have no probs with optics on the pipe....i think its more to do with how close you can get the mouse optic lens to sit over the pipe...when I spin mine it actually JUST touches once per 360 spin....so my pipe is not true center...but close....very small clicking noise as it spins but wouldnt be able to hear it under the CP.....or I could adjust it as well fairly easy....just slip a bit of paper under where I screwed it.....or bend the plastic a bit....

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