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| ShoLouie:
I believe you can be on to something with the heavy pinball, it has alot more angular momentum than the plastic ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out there, could be a good answer to smaller bartops, etc. You would have to use different material for the rollers i would imagine, metal on metal wouldn't be a good idea |
| RandyT:
Sorry if this isn't coherent...been in bed with a 102 fever for the better part of the last two days. Still a little disoriented :dizzy: If anyone has ever seen the photo of my test rig with the "Active Marquee", they would understand why this isn't as off the wall as it might seem at first. Small control panel, with a trackball hanging off the side of the cabinet :P So yeah, a super compact trackball installation would probably be good, specifically for panels where a real one doesn't have a chance of fitting in the space available. The rollers and encoders are going to be the thing that takes up the most space, as they are in any TB, so an optical sensor would probably be necessary. I'll keep it in the back of my mind. If I run across some components that would allow something like this to go together, I'll play around with it. RandyT |
| Ginsu Victim:
My main thought when the pinball was mentioned was that as good as that sounds, would the reflective surface work well with an optical sensor. Considering the size, my first instinct would be to go optical, so I'm glad to see you agree. |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on July 24, 2008, 02:22:41 pm ---My main thought when the pinball was mentioned was that as good as that sounds, would the reflective surface work well with an optical sensor. Considering the size, my first instinct would be to go optical, so I'm glad to see you agree. --- End quote --- I actually went and pulled a ball out of my High-Speed and rolled it around in front of my mouse sensor to make sure that it would track. A highly polished ball probably wouldn't work well, but this one seemed to be ok. RandyT |
| Ginsu Victim:
Since I don't have a trackball, I just keep a Logitech Marble Mouse on top of my cabinet and pull it down when needed. The ball in that works great for everything I've played. A similar ball would be awesome. |
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