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MattMaan:
This is the route I'm planning to take on building a spinner... the only thing I'd be careful about is that not all harddrives have the threaded bearings that're used...
I picked up an old computer from the bin on my last trip to the Dump, and the hdd bearing didn't have an axle all the way through, nor was it threaded... but there was a bearing in the old 5inch floppy drive that looks like it might to the trick. :D
atomaka:
--- Quote from: dhansen on May 22, 2003, 04:07:01 pm ---I've built many of these spinners....ask away!! It was sorely missed during the spinner roundup! ;D
Doug
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Hey Doug,
I appreciate the tutorial a lot. I was wondering if you could clarify a bit (or a lot more for us newbies) on the mouse hacking portion of the tutorial. Thanks!
paigeoliver:
Not all hard drives even have a bearing like that at all. I took one apart and it was nothing like what I saw on that website. I had nothing even remotely usable in a spinner project.
dhansen:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 23, 2003, 07:09:32 am ---Not all hard drives even have a bearing like that at all. I took one apart and it was nothing like what I saw on that website. I had nothing even remotely usable in a spinner project.
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Yeah, I found this out later too. I had a stack of these old WD 200mb drives that I used. Back in the day, you had to make your own spinner, this is pre Oscar/Tornado days!
dhansen:
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Hey Doug,
I appreciate the tutorial a lot. I was wondering if you could clarify a bit (or a lot more for us newbies) on the mouse hacking portion of the tutorial. Thanks!
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A lot of the info on the mounting of the mouse guts can be found at:
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/files/Miscellaneous/Twisty-Grip_Spinner.pdf
I used to have a link to this on the page...hmmm sorry! It looks like my ISP is having some issues, my page is painfullly slow!!
Of course there are probably better ways to mount it so get creative and think of new ways.
Doug