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thoughts on spinners
anthony691:
I am starting out a hard drive spinner, any advice?
rampy:
--- Quote from: anthony691 on March 11, 2003, 08:16:22 pm ---I am starting out a hard drive spinner, any advice?
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obligatory snotty comment "save yourself the trouble and buy an oscar spinner"
now that, that's out of the way... I'd research currently documented "home made" spinners regardless if they are HD based bearings or not... just to get different ideas... cheep spinner plans
twisty grip spinner plans
You see dhansens HD spinner site or the rollerblade bearing spinner hack page?
*Shrug* (I'm looking for a primo byoac forum thread for you also - although in retrospect wasn't primo but was interesting)
rampy
anthony691:
Well rampy, I had meant that I have done the research, and even have the mouse apart on my table next to the hard drive bearing ripped from my drive. I will begin attempting the hack tonight (I hope it isn't too bad)
rampy:
--- Quote from: anthony691 on March 11, 2003, 09:21:11 pm ---Well rampy, I had meant that I have done the research, and even have the mouse apart on my table next to the hard drive bearing ripped from my drive. I will begin attempting the hack tonight (I hope it isn't too bad)
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uhh... never mind then =P Hopefully someone else could use those links...
good luck! (I'd still check out those threads anyway if you haven't seen 'em...)
blah...
rampy
seaner:
Thanks for all the links guys.
I've read most of it before.. just trolling for opinions =)
Obviously doing something like chopping every other spoke off a mouse encouder wheel is a bit crude sounding (one plan I read did this) in order to drop the resolution. Since this screws up the phase shift of the waveforms, I was wondering about making larger wheels, and basically if anyone had worked out what would be the ideal size and shape of such a wheel in order to have it spin freely without backpedalling.